Solid wood dining tables — single slabs and joined live-edge tops, in stock in the UK

A dining table is the piece of furniture a family actually lives on — twenty years of elbows, homework and long conversations land on this one surface. Every table here is solid timber through the full thickness, kiln-dried, sealed once, carrying grain a tree spent decades composing. Most tops are one slab from one tree; where boards are joined, they are joined in the open — live-edge boards laid side by side, each keeping the edge it grew — never under a veneer.

For immediate delivery: Everything on this page exists now. Each table is finished, photographed as itself and in stock in the UK, which is why it can be delivered and assembled in your home within 48 hours — and why the photographs are promises rather than suggestions. Choose it, ask about it without paying anything today, and two days later it is standing in its room.

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Live edge

The full sweep — every wood table that keeps the tree’s own outline on both edges.

Suar wood

Java’s rain tree — dining-width slabs from a single trunk, honeyed amber grain in full flood.

Oak

Pale, straight-grained and quiet — oak for rooms that want calm rather than drama.

Walnut

Near-black heartwood against seams of bright sapwood — the darkest, most formal timber here.

Every dining table, in stock now

Seven tables, no two tops alike — each is cut from its own tree, and the grain in the photograph is that piece’s own. Some are offered across a scale of footprints; the rest are sold in the one size they were made in.

SALEThe Riverbed — Solid Oak table

The Riverbed

215 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6

£3,000£2,400IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY

SALEThe Highland — Solid Walnut table

The Highland

240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8

£2,400£1,920IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY

SALEThe Ravine — Solid Oak table

The Ravine

220 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6

£1,800£1,440IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY

Which size seats how many?

Match the length to the room first; the chairs follow. Below is the suar scale — four footprints, each priced on its own.

SIZESEATSFROM
200 × 90 cmSeats 4–6£2,200
200 × 100 cmSeats 4–6£2,500
250 × 100 cmSeats 6–8£3,200
300 × 100 cmSeats 8–10£3,700

Seat counts follow one rule: chairs sit along the two long sides and the narrow ends stay open. The Estuary and The Tempest follow this scale. The Cascade at £4,200, The Cataract at £3,500, The Riverbed at £2,400, The Highland at £1,920 and The Ravine at £1,440 are sold in the one size they were made in. Every piece is priced in full on its own page.

What makes a luxury dining table worth it

There are two ways to buy a dining table. One is to buy furniture: a design produced in thousands, cut from board, wrapped in a photograph of wood, priced to be replaced. The other is to buy an object that cannot recur — grain a tree composed over decades, cut from it once, finished once, standing in exactly one room in the world.

What the price buys is permanence. The timber is kiln-dried to furniture moisture before a tool touches it, then sealed with a PU and melamine finish that closes the grain against spills and asks for no oiling, ever. A table like this is not redecorated away in five years; it is the fixed point the rest of the room learns to answer.

Immediate delivery, carried in by hand

For immediate delivery: Nothing on this page is made to order and nothing is waiting on a container. Every table is finished and in stock in the UK now, which is what makes the promise possible: delivered and assembled in your home within 48 hours, carried in by hand and set level in its place. Asking costs nothing today.

Choose the delivery option shown on your piece. November pre-orders arrive in November with free UK delivery; in-stock purchases use our normal delivery service. We confirm availability and timing with your enquiry.

Solid wood dining table FAQs

How much does a solid wood dining table cost in the UK?

A genuinely solid one costs more than most tables sold under the name. Below roughly £1,000, “solid wood” usually means a thin veneer over MDF or narrow finger-jointed strips. Kiln-dried hardwood at dining scale starts at £1,440 here, and rises with timber, length and form: £2,200 for a 200 × 90 cm suar top cut from a single slab, £3,700 for a 300 × 100 cm one that seats 8–10, £4,200 for The Cascade, whose slab pours over one end and falls to the floor. The top is most of the cost — wide, dry, furniture-grade timber is what you are paying for.

What is the difference between solid wood and veneer?

Veneer is a millimetre of real wood glued over chipboard or MDF; solid wood is the same timber all the way through. You can tell at the edge: on a solid top the grain flows over the corner and down the side in one continuous story, while veneer meets a hard seam or a banded edge. Solid wood can be sanded and refinished for decades; a veneer survives one careless scratch. Every table here is solid through its full thickness — nothing is wrapped.

Which wood is best for a dining table?

Honestly, species matters less than dryness and finish. Oak is the calm, hard-wearing choice; walnut is darker and more formal; suar is the one that most reliably grows wide enough to give a full dining top from a single slab. A dining-width oak or walnut butt is a rarer find, which is why tops in those timbers are usually glued up from boards rather than cut from one. Every wood top here is kiln-dried and carries the same sealed finish, so the practical differences shrink to almost nothing — choose with your eyes, then check the width your room allows.

How long does delivery take?

November pre-orders arrive in November with free UK delivery. For immediate delivery, choose the in-stock option on the product page. Your piece is carried in by hand, assembled and set level, and the packaging is taken away. Enquiring takes no payment; availability and the delivery slot are confirmed with you.

Can I see the exact table I am buying?

Yes — that is the point of the photography. Each table on this site is photographed as itself, not represented by a render or a sample of the species, so the figuring and the wander of the live edge you see in the pictures are the ones that arrive at your door. You can enquire about the table you have chosen today without paying anything.

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