Hello all, and thanks in advance for your thoughts. I'm planning to build a dining room table that will seat 8. The Dining Room is 160" x 150", so almost square. My initial thought is to build a 54" X 80" rectangle top seating 2 on each side. I came up with this size by lining up imaginary 24" wide by 18" deep placemats around the perimeter of my sketch. (then stretched the 48" side to 54") my questions:
- Do you think 54" x 80" will seat 8 comfortably?
- Are there "rules of thumb" regarding:
- How thick should a table top this size be? Start with 6/4 material or 8/4?
- How wide should a table apron be, relative to the top? My guess is about 3 1/2"
- How heavy/thick should the legs be relative to the top? My initial guess was that a leg roughly 4" square at the top that tapered to about 3" at the bottom would look about right.
Thanks.