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The Highland
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
£2,400£1,920IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
Solid walnut dining tables — deep grain, in stock in the UK
Walnut is the cabinetmaker's timber. Its heartwood runs deep chocolate with a cool, almost violet depth beneath the surface, and the grain moves the way slow water does: long, flowing lines that gather into near-black where the tree worked hardest. Where other timbers brighten a room, walnut gives it gravity.
For immediate delivery: The walnut table here is finished, photographed and already in the UK. The timber in the photographs is the timber that arrives, assembled in your home within 48 hours of choosing it.
Why walnut for a dining table
A dining table is the darkest, heaviest note most rooms will ever hold, and walnut is the timber that carries that note best. Its tone anchors everything around it — pale walls, light chairs, glass and brass all sharpen against it — which is why designers reach for walnut when a room needs a centre of gravity rather than another light surface.
It earns its keep structurally too. At roughly 1,010 lbf on the Janka hardness scale, walnut is dense enough for decades of daily dining, and it ages more gracefully than almost any furniture wood: rather than yellowing or greying, it mellows slowly toward a warm, even patina that old walnut is prized for. The table you buy dark and dramatic becomes, over the years, dark and warm.
Our solid walnut dining tables
How this one reaches its width
Walnut rarely grows a board wide enough to dine on alone, so a walnut top is built from lengths set side by side, each keeping the edge it grew.
THE JOINED TOP
- FORM
- Several live-edge boards of solid walnut jointed along their length, each keeping its own pale sapwood edge, on a black steel X-frame.
- THE LOOK
- Bands of near-black heartwood running the full length between bright seams of sapwood — ridge and shadow, repeated to the edge.
- WHO IT SUITS
- The traditionalist. Someone who wants the cabinetmaking on show — a formal room, a long wall, furniture with some history behind it.
- SIZE
- 240 × 100 cm — seats 8, one fixed size
- PRICE
- £1,920
Whichever way you lean, the timber is treated the same: kiln-dried before finishing, sealed under a PU and melamine finish, and never asking to be oiled.
Walnut, oak or suar?
Oak is the quiet one — pale, straight-grained, content to let the room speak. Suar is the loud one — honeyed, dramatic, wide enough to give a full dining top from a single tropical tree. Walnut sits between and above them: less theatrical than suar, far deeper than oak, with the fine, flowing figure that made it the benchmark furniture timber.
Choose walnut when the room is already composed and needs its anchor — when what you want is not a spectacle but a certainty. Every live-edge table we hold, in any of the three timbers, keeps the tree's natural edge exactly where it grew.
Immediate delivery, carried in by hand
For immediate delivery: Nothing here is made to order; the walnut is finished and in stock in the UK. Enquire — it costs nothing today — and within 48 hours the table is carried in, assembled and set level in its place.
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.
Walnut dining table FAQs
Is walnut too dark for a dining room?
A dark table does the opposite of what people fear: it anchors the room rather than shrinking it. Against pale walls or a light floor, deep walnut reads as calm, not gloom — the one settled thing everything else arranges itself around. In a north-facing room, keep the chairs and textiles light and let the table carry the weight. And walnut is never flatly dark: the grain moves between chocolate, rust and near-black, so the surface changes with every hour of light.
Does a walnut dining table scratch easily?
Walnut is a dense hardwood — around 1,010 lbf on the Janka scale — and on our tables the timber never meets your cutlery directly: every top is sealed under a PU and melamine finish, so daily contact lands on the finish, not the wood. Walnut has a further quiet advantage: its dark, flowing grain disguises fine marks that would show plainly on a pale timber. Use a board for cutting and a trivet under hot pans, and the surface asks nothing else of you.
Are epoxy river tables durable?
More than most people expect. Cured epoxy resin is harder than the walnut either side of it, and where we build a river table the resin channel is bonded to the boards and sealed under the same finish as the timber — one continuous surface, not a seam. The river cleans exactly as the wood does: a wipe with a damp cloth. There is no separate care routine, no polishing regime, nothing to top up.
How much does a walnut dining table cost in the UK?
Walnut grows slower and smaller than the tropical species, so clean, well-figured boards of any length are genuinely scarce — price follows the timber, the size of the finished top and the drama of the figure. The walnut table held today is The Highland at £1,920, 240 × 100 cm in one fixed size. It is in stock in the UK, and asking costs nothing today.
Will sunlight fade a walnut table?
Walnut does the opposite of most timbers: instead of darkening with age, it lightens — gently, evenly, over years — from deep chocolate toward a warm honey-brown. It is a mellowing, not a fading, and the sealed finish slows it further. Keep the table out of relentless direct sun through glass, and move whatever lives on the surface from time to time so the change happens evenly across the top.