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Maple Dining Table

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The maple dining table is simply one of the most popular choice when it comes to wooden dining tables. It is hard to dismiss this great wooden material for your kitchen furniture.  

Features

  • It is a solid hardwood
  • Very light brown in color
  • Natural-looking (warm and casual)
  • Can be modern (contemporary) or antique (rustic, vintage)
  • Heavy
  • Dense
  • Strong
  • Fine, straight grains
  • Available in mostly rectangle shapes, but you can find some round ones

Note: Its scientific botanical name is called the Acer saccharum. Other names for the maple wood are sugar maple, white maple (sapwood), bird's eye maple (dotted grains are visible) and rock maple.

Benefits

It is relatively low to medium priced. For a hardwood, this is an unbelievably great benefit! This means you get a high quality hardwood that is priced lower than other hardwoods. If you have been dreaming of owning a hardwood dining table at an affordable price, go maple and save your money.

Extremely durable. Rest assured that your new maple dining table will last you for decades, if not centuries! This is due to its hardness of the wood alone.

Maple dining tables are known to complement any home decor easily because of its natural appearance. This is one of its biggest strengths.

Tips

Ever noticed the light brown wooden flooring in the bowling alleys? Yes, they are made from maple wood as well. This proves how tough the wood is!

If you want to refinish the your maple dining table, you can do so very easily. This is because maple wood accepts finishing very well. There won't be complications like other woods.

There are 4 main types of maple woods. They are the

  • European maple
  • Japanese maple
  • Rock maple
  • Soft maple (a much darker maple wood type with strong, visible wavy patterns)

The first 3 maple variants are similarly colored, sharing the same light brown color.

How to buy a maple dining table? Sometimes, when you go looking for a maple dining table, you'll encounter models which are much darker than the original maple color (light brown). This is because the manufacturer has applied a darker finish, that's all. You can still enjoy the high quality goodness of the maple wood!

How do you know whether the maple kitchen table is modern or antique? It is just a matter of finishing and maple wood type. If you don't know already, when you see the smoothly refined light brown color appearing in one single color tone, it is a modern version. On the other hand, if the table looks harsh and dark with variable color tones, it is an antique one. Most of the time, you can already tell by just giving a quick look. Common sense will tell you which finishing looks more rustic (old)!

Still, maple's natural color (almost white brown) is very attractive. There is very little reason to refinish it simply to make it look darker. This depends the individual's personal taste and your kitchen interior design.

Like the beech dining table, maple tables are also prone to furniture beetles' attack. Likewise, make sure the finish on the maple table top remains in tip top condition. The finishing acts as a protection layer, preventing the beetles from eating your table.

Don't make the mistake of placing your maple dining table outdoors! This fine table should remain indoors at all times, in the kitchen dining area where it rightfully belongs. This is a good maintenance habit so your table can last longer. Save it from being exposed to moisture and sun rays.

You should be able to differentiate between a maple and an oak dining table too. Their wood color might look similar. How to do it? Simple. The maple finish is much more smoother and there is hardly any tone variations while the oak wood has "hard marks" and uneven tones (some dark, some light).

When it comes to the maple dining set, you must purchase the maple dining chairs as well! If you do, you are a smart consumer. The fact that the chairs are made from maple alone should convince you to buy them. They are very tough too. For a furniture unit that requires rough usage, maple wood comes to the rescue!

Given all of its great qualities, you know you have the best deal when you buy a maple dining table.

 

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