{"id":3462,"date":"2026-11-01T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/ar\/dining-table-size-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:31:15","slug":"dining-table-size-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/dining-table-size-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Dining Table Sizes: How to Choose the Right Size for Your Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The dining table brings the family and guests together, and a wrong size shows at the first dinner: cramped chairs, or a table that swallows the room. This guide sums up the measurements we use in the Woodhouse workshop in Riyadh, so you can choose a table that fits your family and your room.<\/p>\n<h2>The basic rule: 60 cm per person<\/h2>\n<p>Each person needs about <strong>60 cm<\/strong> of table length to eat comfortably, and <strong>65\u201370 cm<\/strong> with armchairs or long dinners. If someone sits at the head, add about 15 cm at each end.<\/p>\n<p>A comfortable table width is <strong>90\u2013110 cm<\/strong>. Narrower and dishes get crowded; wider than 120 cm and talking across the table gets hard.<\/p>\n<h2>Suggested sizes by number of people<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>People<\/th>\n<th>Rectangular (length \u00d7 width)<\/th>\n<th>Round (diameter)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>120\u2013140 \u00d7 80\u201390 cm<\/td>\n<td>100\u2013110 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>160\u2013180 \u00d7 90\u2013100 cm<\/td>\n<td>120\u2013140 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>200\u2013240 \u00d7 100\u2013110 cm<\/td>\n<td>150\u2013160 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>260\u2013300 \u00d7 110\u2013120 cm<\/td>\n<td>Usually not suitable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Standard table height is <strong>75 cm<\/strong> and chair seat height 45\u201348 cm, leaving about 27\u201330 cm between seat and tabletop.<\/p>\n<h2>The space around the table matters more than the table<\/h2>\n<p>So guests can stand up and others can walk behind them, leave <strong>at least 90 cm<\/strong> between the table edge and the wall or sideboard (75 cm minimum in small rooms). Simply: <strong>room size = table size + about 180 cm in length and width<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Example: a 240 \u00d7 100 cm table for 8 needs a room of about 4.2 \u00d7 2.8 m. If a <a href=\"\/en\/product-category\/dining-room\/buffets\/\">sideboard<\/a> stands on one wall, subtract its depth (about 45\u201355 cm) first.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-1793137943655-scaled.png\" alt=\"Asala oval dining table by Woodhouse\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<h2>Rectangular, oval or round?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rectangular:<\/strong> best for long rooms and large gatherings; seats the most people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oval:<\/strong> almost the same capacity without corners, so moving around is easier and it looks softer, like the <a href=\"\/en\/product\/river-oval-dining-table\/\">River Oval Dining Table<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/en\/product\/asala-premium-dining-table\/\">Asala table<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Round:<\/strong> great for 4\u20136 people and square rooms, and everyone can see each other; beyond 8 people the diameter gets too large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Quick tips before you order<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Measure the room, doorways and lift before ordering, especially for tables over 240 cm.<\/li>\n<li>Size for the number of people you host every week, not the biggest dinner of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Sculptural bases (like the <a href=\"\/en\/product\/loop-artistic-luxury-dining-table\/\">Loop Artistic table<\/a>) need a check that chairs won&#8217;t hit them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Need a size that isn&#8217;t listed? We make it for you<\/h2>\n<p>Every Woodhouse piece is made in our Riyadh workshop, and most tables can be adjusted in size or material to fit your room. Send us your room size through <a href=\"\/en\/custom-orders\/\">custom orders<\/a>, or book a <a href=\"\/en\/interior-consultation\/\">free consultation<\/a> with a designer. Browse all <a href=\"\/en\/product-category\/dining-room\/dining-tables\/\">dining tables<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A practical guide to dining table sizes for 6, 8 and 10 people, the clearance you need around the table, and how rectangular, oval and round tables compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodhouse.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}