Dining table delivery in London — 48 hours, carried in by hand
The promise does not change with the postcode. Nothing here is made to order: every table is already complete and in stock in the UK, which is why it is delivered and assembled within 48 hours of being chosen rather than the months a made-to-order workshop quotes. You pay nothing to enquire, and the delivery slot is confirmed within 24 hours — which is also the conversation where access is worked out.
So this page is not about the driving. In London the driving is the easy part. It is about the last twenty feet — the hallway, the turn, the stair — and about what to measure before a solid top arrives at a door that was hung a century before it.
The hallway decides it, not the mileage
Most of this city was built before anyone thought about getting a dining table into it. Victorian and Edwardian terraces run a hallway one person wide and then turn it at the foot of the stairs. Houses since divided into flats reach the front door of the flat by way of a communal stair and a half-landing, which is a turn taken twice, in the air. Mansion blocks have a lift, and the lift was sized for people. Kitchens sit at the bottom of a single steep flight often enough that the room the table is going to is below the room it comes in through.
Every one of those is a corner, and a corner is where a solid top argues back. The top does not flex. It arrives in one piece — sealed, with no fold, no leaf, nothing to unbolt across the middle — and it is assembled onto its frame in the room where it will stand. What decides whether it gets there is not the length of the table so much as the diagonal of the openings on the way: the narrowest doorway, the width of the hall where it turns, the gap between the banister and the wall.
None of which is an argument against a small flat. The shortest footprint in the collection is 180 × 90 cm, and it goes places a 320 × 110 cm top will never see. It is an argument for ten minutes with a tape measure before choosing, which is what the rest of this page is for.
What to measure before it arrives
Five measurements, taken in the order the table travels. Write them down; they are worth more than any photograph when you tell us about the room.
THE NARROWEST DOORWAY
Not the front door — every door on the way, measured as the clear opening with the door standing open. Between the stops, not across the outside of the frame.
THE TURN AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS
Measure both hallways at the corner, then write down whatever is fixed in it: a radiator, the meter cupboard, the newel post. A turn is the narrower hall minus what is bolted to the wall.
THE STAIR AND THE HALF-LANDING
On a communal stair, the width between wall and banister, and the headroom over the half-landing — that is where a long top has to come upright to get round.
THE LIFT, IF THERE IS ONE
Internal width, depth and height, and the diagonal corner to corner. A car sized for people is rarely sized for a 320 cm top, and the stairs are then the answer rather than the problem.
THE ROOM ITSELF
Tape the footprint onto the floor and walk around it. What surprises people is never the table; it is the clearance behind the chairs.
Every footprint, and what it asks of a hallway
| TABLE TOP | ON ITS EDGE | TO TURN A CORNER | ROOM WIDTH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 180 × 90 cm | 90 cm | 64 cm | 270 cm |
| 200 × 95 cm | 95 cm | 71 cm | 275 cm |
| 215 × 100 cm | 100 cm | 77 cm | 280 cm |
| 220 × 100 cm | 100 cm | 78 cm | 280 cm |
| 240 × 100 cm | 100 cm | 85 cm | 280 cm |
| 280 × 110 cm | 110 cm | 99 cm | 290 cm |
| 320 × 110 cm | 110 cm | 114 cm | 290 cm |
Read across. On its edge is the height that top stands at once it is tipped onto its long side to come through a doorway — the figure to check against a door frame and against the headroom over a half-landing. To turn a corner is the hallway width a right-angle turn wants, both ways, for a top that length. Room width is the wall-to-wall the room wants across the chair sides: 90 cm of clearance on each of them, as the sizing guide asks.
The turn column is arithmetic and not a guarantee. It treats the top as a straight line with no thickness at all, so the real number is always a little larger — skirting board, a radiator, a newel post and a door held open each take a share of it. Read it as the point below which the answer is certainly no.
These are the footprints the collection is offered in today, not a list of what any one table comes in — that is on each table’s own page. Seat counts are left out on purpose: the same footprint is labelled differently on different pieces, and a single column here would quote a number no product page shows.
Small rooms make the size question sharper
A London dining room is usually the back half of a knocked-through ground floor, or a corner of the kitchen given a name. It rewards measuring the gap rather than the table. The sizing guide asks for at least 90 cm of clearance on each long side, so a chair can be pulled out and sat down in without anyone climbing over it — and the ends need none, because the seat counts here are drawn with chairs on the two long sides only, the narrow ends left open. That is why a 180 × 90 cm top wants 270 cm of wall-to-wall across it, and a 320 × 110 cm top wants 290 cm.
Which makes the honest order of decisions room first, seats second, table third. The long version — how many places a length really carries, and why a live edge top seats along its sides — is in the sizing guide in the journal. If the number of chairs is already settled, the six-seater and eight-seater pages show which sizes take that many at a squeeze and which take them comfortably. In a small room those two answers are the difference between a table you walk round and one you edge past.
The old table, in a flat with nowhere to put it
This is the part of buying a table that London makes worse, and for dull reasons. There is no garage to stand the old one in and no spare room to lean it against. Few households have a van. Listing it means strangers on a communal stair for a fortnight, and a table that no longer fits anywhere is standing in the middle of the room the whole time.
Which is what the trade-in is for. Photograph the old table, take the credit against the new one, and it leaves in the same van the new one arrives in — sound pieces passed on to homes that need them, anything past saving back to timber, and nothing to landfill. One visit, one day, and no second morning spent waiting in.
In stock in the UK, two days from your room
Every dining table below is finished and in the country today, from £1,800. The one in the photographs is the one that arrives: carried in by hand, assembled where it will stand, set level, and every scrap of packaging taken away when we leave.
The Estuary
260 × 105 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £1,895IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Tempest
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £1,895IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Cascade
240 × 95 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £1,895IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Cataract
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £1,895IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Riverbed
215 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
£3,000IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Highland
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
£2,400IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Ravine
220 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
£1,800IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Glacier
220 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
From £2,495IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Rift
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £1,895IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
London delivery FAQs
Do you deliver dining tables to London?
Yes, on the same terms as anywhere else in the UK. Nothing here is made to order — every table is already finished and in stock in the country — so it is delivered and assembled by hand within 48 hours of you choosing it. No payment is taken when you enquire, and we are in touch within 24 hours to confirm your delivery slot; that conversation is where access is settled too.
Will you carry the table in and assemble it?
Yes. A table this solid is a two-person lift, so it is never left at the door or in a box. It is carried to the room by hand, assembled where it will stand and set level in its place, and every scrap of packaging is taken away when we leave. You lift nothing, unwrap nothing and clear nothing away.
Will the table fit through my front door?
That is a question about your hallway rather than your postcode, and it is worth ten minutes with a tape measure before anything else. The footprints here run from 180 × 90 cm to 320 × 110 cm. Tipped onto its long edge to come through a doorway, a top stands its own width — 90 to 110 cm — and the harder number is the turn: brought round a right angle with hallways of equal width, a 320 cm top asks for roughly 114 cm each way, a 180 cm top for about 64 cm. Treat both as a floor and not a promise; the arithmetic ignores skirting, a radiator, a door held open and the thickness of the top itself. The delivery slot and the access are both confirmed when we are in touch, within 24 hours.
Will you take my old table away?
Yes, through the trade-in. Photograph it in the form on the trade-in page, take the credit against whichever table you choose, and the old one leaves in the same van the new one arrives in — sound pieces passed on to homes that need them, anything past saving recycled. Nothing goes to landfill. In a flat with no spare room and no van, that is often the part that decides it: you never list it, lift it, or wait in for a second collection.
Do I pay anything when I enquire?
No payment is taken when you enquire. The table is held for you while you decide, and we contact you within 24 hours to confirm your delivery slot and arrange payment securely.