Clearly the Best: A Glass Top Dining Table

Elegant and chic, blending beautifully with almost any style of décor, and surprising easy to clean, a glass top dining table offers a unique combination of style and functionality. If you want to create a dining room ambience that brings a heightened sense of the finer things in life to any occasion, you can’t do better than this style of table. Whether you are drinking your morning coffee while checking your e-mail, sitting down to a light solo salad and soup lunch, having an intimate dinner a deux, or setting the stage for a fabulous dinner party, this table will impart an air of distinction to everything from the simplest to the most lovingly crafted meal. Think of a glass top dining table as the home decorating equivalent of the stunning little black dress, the one that you can wear to a multitude of occasions and which always elicits a “wow!” Let’s face it, most wooden tables scream “grandma’s dining room” so strongly you can almost smell the overcooked brussel sprouts. Visually, most of those heavy wood pieces seem to consume a room, something to be avoided at all costs, especially in small urban dwelling places where space is at a premium. Yesterday’s preference for clunky wood furniture is gone, in favor of furniture that feels lighter, more airy, more sophisticated and sleek. When you make the more savvy choice of decor, with a sleek glass table you can change the rest of the room as you want, no need to get a new table to match a new sideboard.

You can choose small wood, metal, or fabric accents to place around the side of the room without worrying they might clash with your glass table. Plus your clear glass table won’t hide that beautiful new throw rug or the gleaming finish of your floors. You can play with colors and textures subtly altering the dining room in different seasons; this central piece will never clash with new decorating elements you bring in as your taste evolves. If your creative flair emerges in the kitchen, you can rest assured the lightness of this style of table will provide a perfect setting for your culinary creations, but never distract your guests from the masterpieces that emerge from your kitchen. Yet even with style galore, this decorating choice is simple enough to suit even the most austere of tastes, making the the perfect choice for couples trying to compromise between "his" and "hers" styles of decorating. This is one furniture choice so flexible it's almost yogic. Your mother may have told you that you have to suffer for beauty; fortunately this is one case where that doesn’t apply. Your sister or neighbor down the street with the old wooden dining table will have her blood pressure raised every time someone carelessly places a cup of coffee or a glass of wine on the table’s surface without protective gear. Your table doesn’t require any prophylactics to maintain its natural beauty. Those same friends with those cumbersome wooden tables they may have inherited from a great-aunt will have to spend money on special wood-care products plus time applying them. Otherwise their tables turn cloudy and streaked.

Someone with a wooden table also has to worry about accidental nicks ruining the finish. Your sleek stunner of a table doesn’t need anything more than a spritz from a simple spray bottle of vinegar and water (or whatever your favorite mirror and glass cleaning product is) and a quick wipe with a clean cloth or paper towel. When you get your new table home, place it somewhere it will receive and reflect light, whether from a window or an indoor light source. You can leave the table bare to reveal its spare, elegant lines. Or place some flowers in a sculptural vase on the table's surface, maybe perched atop an unusual fabric runner. Either way, immediately, your dining room becomes a little bit like an art gallery, a place where beauty is celebrated. Pour yourself a cup or glass of your favorite relaxing libation, and sit at your new table. Take some time to appreciate how the table imbues even a simple drink with a subtle air of richness, refreshingly free of formality. Place your drink on the table and stop to think of the consequences if you did that with a different kind of furniture. Enjoy your new glass top dining table.