Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
Big family means big holiday meals and lots of table space. We decided to make a table that would be useful behind the couch, but easy enough to use as a second/third dining table.I really don't like the way traditional drop leaves stand out away from the top surface when down, and have that funny rounded cove, so I came up with the geometry to make the drops tuck in below the table top. If you flip the hinge over and recess the hinge pin into the center top section, it will pivot so that the drop leaf tucks away. (see the drawing picture) I gave the joining edges a 10 degree angle just so the edge wouldn't look so square.The base is admittedly a bit odd. It might be too subtle to see in the pics, but the legs have a twist from 0 degrees under the table to the 11 degree angle of the the X-base. it was a lot of hand shaping to get not much of an effect.The ugly shiny galvanized bolt is not visible until you crawl under, and since then I have researched ways of blackening steel.The wood is all cherry, Watco danish oil finish. 30” inches tall, 6 ft. long, 14” wide leaves down, 28” wide leaves up.