Round Kitchen Table and Chairs
Choosing to have a round kitchen table in your breakfast nook is a great choice. There are several advantages to this style of kitchen nook furniture which we will discuss here. There are also a few disadvantages, but nothing that cannot be overcome with a few adjustments or innovations.
The first major advantage to round kitchen tables and chairs is that they make conversation easier. When you have many people sitting at a rectangular table, it is usually only comfortable to talk to the people on either side of you and perhaps across the table from you if you are not at the long ends of the table. With a round table, it is easy to talk to everyone. Everyone is only just across the table from you. No one is ever left out because every seat is in the middle of every conversation. This is particularly good if you do a lot of entertaining and occasionally have guests that do not know each other well.
Another advantage is that you do not have to turn your head as far or lean away from or over the table to get the attention of other table guests. With a rectangular table you need to turn your head a full ninety degrees to look at your neighbor and you need to lean in or out obnoxiously far to talk to someone two or three people away from you. When you are seated at a round kitchen table you never need to turn your head ninety degrees. Each of your neighbors is slightly in front of you, so your head turn is not quite as dramatic. People who are sitting two or three places away are actually closer to across from you so it is even easier to talk to them.
A third advantage to choosing to have a circular breakfast set is your ability to choose the high top style. High top tables are sometimes called pub table because they are similar to the tables you will find in a pub or bar. They are high enough so that someone standing can have a conversation with someone sitting at the same table. They are usually small and seat between two and four people and they are almost exclusively circular. It is very hard to find a pub table that is rectangular or square. If this is the type of seating arrangements you want for your kitchen, then you will most likely end up with a round tabletop.
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