Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Commonhouse tables....metal/wood/round/rectangle?

[mark harfenist (mark]

Hi Kelly,

Hmmm.  Maybe I need to pay more attention to what is normally found in 
banquet halls. Are you imagining fake wood-grained tops, dark in color 
with plastic edgebanding? What I am suggesting is a definite 
improvement.

 Ours are used with or without tablecloths; three coats of alkyd 
polyurethane is waterproof, solvent (i.e. alcohol) proof, stain proof, 
and somewhat dent-and-scratch proof.  Aesthetic appeal varies according 
to species and cut of wood used; tables can be anything from perfectly 
tolerable to absolutely stunning.

Hope that helps.

Mark

On Monday, October 24, 2005, at 05:37  AM, Hyghroad [at] aol.com wrote:

> Dear Marc:
>
> These tables sound interesting. I will be keeping copies of this and 
> any
> other posts as we will "hopefully" be building our commonhouse in the 
> next year.
>
> I was wondering - are these tables similar to the ones one sees at 
> banquet
> halls? If so, do they always need table clothes?
>
>
> Kelly Devine
> Common Pastures
> aka Champlain Valley Cohousing
> Charlotte, Vermont
> http://www.champlainvalleycohousing.org
> 802-425-5030
> hyghroad [at] aol.com
>
> In a message dated 10/24/2005 12:02:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mark [at] bellinghamcohousing.org writes:
>
>
> > You want wooden tabletops with folding metal legs.  Standard legs are
> > available cheaply from many sources (e.g., http://www.rockler.com/).
> > Tops can be easily fabricated from sheets of cabinet-grade hardwood
> > plywood edged with matching hardwood strips.
>
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