Counter Height Kitchen Table

[MacB]

Let us know when you've finished with the serious shite in this thread so we can start feckin about.

Today at 0658hrs, I'm impressed you old lush(also known as a drinker of refined beers with impeccable taste), still able to battle that hangover at dawn eh.

 

[MacB]

It's a table, at non-table height. A table you can only stand at. It really will look like neither one thing nor the other.

Mike it's replacing the existing breakfast bar which has fancy swivel high stools which I want to keep so the height is deliberate.

Sorry just to add it makes perfect sense to me to have a tall kitchen table that you cn both stand at and sit at, that option isn't available with a low/normal table.

 

[MikeG]

Built-in, and with a work-top type top, you'd call it a breakfast bar, and it would make visual sense. As a free standing piece of furniture, (ie, a table) distinct from the rest of the kitchen, it would look most odd.

 

[MacB]

Built-in, and with a work-top type top, you'd call it a breakfast bar, and it would make visual sense. As a free standing piece of furniture, (ie, a table) distinct from the rest of the kitchen, it would look most odd.

Mike if you do a search on kitchen island and island breakfast bars you'll find that I'm far from alone in having this 'odd' taste. There are plenty of OTP options but none quite met my desires. Immaterial now as the Steampunk idea has firmly lodged with me.

 

[MikeG]

Mike if you do a search on kitchen island and island breakfast bars.......

Erm........I'm an architect (designing dozens of kitchens every year), and have built furniture professionally. I don't need to do an internet search to inform my views on this one.

 

[MacB]

Erm........I'm an architect (designing dozens of kitchens every year), and have built furniture professionally. I don't need to do an internet search to inform my views on this one.

Ok Mr Designer are you saying that all the other kitchen designers that are doing this sort of stuff are wrong?

I'm quite happy to accept it's not to your taste but you seem unable to accept that others tastes can vary to yours without being 'wrong'.

Anyway I'm going to have my Steampunk inspired high table and I'll just have to live with your disapproval.

 

[Zimbob]

Ok Mr Designer are you saying that all the other kitchen designers that are doing this sort of stuff are wrong?

I'm quite happy to accept it's not to your taste but you seem unable to accept that others tastes can vary to yours without being 'wrong'.

Anyway I'm going to have my Steampunk inspired high table and I'll just have to live with your disapproval.

Seems normal enough to me - I built myself one for an awkward small bit of un-used space in my kitchen, it's come in very handy for maximising the space

Mine consists of a 45mm thick laminated Meranti top, and 45mm Square softwood legs, with a lower level platform made of the same 45mm timber, all painted white, apart from the top which is oiled...

Practical, and solves the lack of counter-top area in the kitchen, as well as adding extra storage and making use of a 'dead' bit of space

 

[MikeG]

Too much sneering for me. You clearly just want people to agree with you and affirm your taste. Best of luck with that.

Your post, by the way, is full of straw men.

 

[MikeG]

Seems normal enough to me - I built myself one for an awkward small bit of un-used space in my kitchen, it's come in very handy for maximising the space

Mine consists of a 45mm thick laminated Meranti top, and 45mm Square softwood legs, with a lower level platform made of the same 45mm timber, all painted white, apart from the top which is oiled...

Practical, and solves the lack of counter-top area in the kitchen, as well as adding extra storage and making use of a 'dead' bit of space

Sounds fine, but of course, it isn't a table as per the OP. You're comparing apples with oranges.

 

[MacB]

That is going to be one weird piece of furniture. Are you really sure?

It's a table, at non-table height. A table you can only stand at. It really will look like neither one thing nor the other.

Built-in, and with a work-top type top, you'd call it a breakfast bar, and it would make visual sense. As a free standing piece of furniture, (ie, a table) distinct from the rest of the kitchen, it would look most odd.

Erm........I'm an architect (designing dozens of kitchens every year), and have built furniture professionally. I don't need to do an internet search to inform my views on this one.

Too much sneering for me. You clearly just want people to agree with you and affirm your taste. Best of luck with that.

Your post, by the way, is full of straw men.

Sounds fine, but of course, it isn't a table as per the OP. You're comparing apples with oranges.

Mike much as I appreciate your contributions, having now read them as a whole, I have clearly not sneered nearly enough. I think your second contribution is the winner as you declare it's wrong and can only be stood at. For an alleged KITCHEN DESIGNER you are really late to the party in discovering the existence of high stools. I neither want agreement or taste affirmation but nor do I want preposterous assertions that are just not true.

Now why don't you just toddle off and spread your wisdom somewhere it'll be appreciated.

 

[Zimbob]

Sounds fine, but of course, it isn't a table as per the OP. You're comparing apples with oranges.

Well, there's no drawer et cetera as per OP, but it is still a table...

 

[MikeG]

.......Now why don't you just toddle off and spread your wisdom somewhere it'll be appreciated.

Cheerio. I've adjusted my forum settings accordingly.

 

[rich p]

Cheerio. I've adjusted my forum settings accordingly.

Without checking I can't be sure but are you the same Mike who flounced off the cricket thread recently when someone disagreed with you?

 

[MacB]

Without checking I can't be sure but are you the same Mike who flounced off the cricket thread recently when someone disagreed with you?

It doesn't matter, I've displayed my usual level of pricklish arseholeness so he's probably right this time

 

[Aperitif]

Cheerio. I've adjusted my forum settings accordingly.

'Ignored' yourself perchance?