Friday, October 4, 2013

Kitchen Tables. Functional, beautiful, stylish.

The kitchen is not only a place in which experience the wonderful and satisfactory moment of the dinner, it is a convivial space, in which you stay together with your family or friends. In this informal environment it is easy to chat, discuss and have fun: with your own partner while cooking, with your kids while helping them doing their homeworks, with friends while preparing appetizers or uncorking a bottle of wine.
So where can you conveniently meet to do all this? Obviously on a kitchen table! So let's see how to choose it in the proper way.

Materials: the strongest and the scratch-resistant ones
The table is mostly used as a "serving furniture": a real working surface. If you are one of those who see the table as a multipurpose furniture item, you will have to pay a double attention in choosing the top material, with a preference for a laminate one. This doesn't mean renouncing to wood or glass, but simply treat them with more care!


Tops which are 100% scratch and weary resistant through time don't exist, time and ordinary usage can be tricky to any kind of material; in any case, if you know that you are quite intolerant to scratches, you can decide for a table such as Slim, which gives you the possibility to choose a HPL high-resistance laminate top. Another suitable solution is a table with an MDF top, just like Porta Venezia, which combines design, functionality and tradition.



Another expedient would be choosing a material which can conceal the possible scratches, such as the tranché melamine of kitchen tables like Hide, whose name speaks out the truth! The tranchè finish shows in fact a striped texture reproducing wood grains.


Obviously this doesn't mean that you can't put a wooden table inside your kitchen, most of all in a classic and rustic one. Functionality and resistance are two key factors but you don't have to renounce to aesthetics, especially in two or single-room apartments where the kitchen table has to serve also the purpose of a table for the sitting room! If you don't wish to renounce to the elegance of glass, you can choose among kitchen tables, such as Dublino one, coming in scratch-resistant glass.

Modern and Classic Kitchen Tables
This choice depends upon your taste and the environments in which the table has to be placed. The material does not represent an obstacle because there are kitchen tables made of wood, glass, metal, stone and even plastic materials, ideal for both classic and modern kitchens thanks to their shapes and details.
What comes up immediately to one's mind in choosing furniture for a modern kitchen is the glass table, with aluminium legs or inserts, for example have a look at Fli.
In addition, the modern kitchen allows to dare and play with brave and creative or trendy colour combinations. The perfect example of this is represented by Easy, suitable for modern or contemporary kitchens, in which the ideal lines are simple and essential, almost minimalist!



For classic, country and rustic environments the wood is the top material for excellence. Solid wood with a raw look or decapè, embossed, open pore lacquered finish in sober and natural colors for a shabby chic style? The design of the tables can recall the shapes of tradition, leading to products with simple "tavern" shapes or enriched by turned legs and inlays. Cosimo, for example, shows a simple and country-inspired design. The top is in MDF covered with hand-consumed solid oak wood and treated with a natural transparent coating which makes it ideal for an ordinary use inside the kitchen.


For a modern country environment you can combine also different materials to achieve an unexpected effect of remarkable elegance and refinement. Kitchen tables such as Tirol creates a valuable corner in extremely refined kitchens.
The legs come in aged fir wood, whereas the top is in glass. This table is the classic example of how modern and classic style can harmoniously cohexist.


And what should you do when you are about to furnish a relatively small kitchen?
If you have a two-room apartment, a small open space or a one-room environment, it is imperative to optimize the space. Among the latest trends one of the most appreciated ones is the peninsula kitchen table, which is the typical American solution. Maybe a customized one such as Mary, which is able to meet any kind of space need. The top is fixed to the wall and the leg is height adjustable.




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