The antique metal or nickel finish can visually brighten a room, ... A small dining table accommodating four or fewer people usually has a tabletop of about 48 to 60 inches.

Some designers say a dining table is a must-have even in a small space, ... Piotrowski and her partner incorporated an antique 6-by-2-foot harvest table into their 700-square-foot apartment.

The modern dining table in this space by Denise McGaha Interiors is all about angles, angles, angles. Its square shape is reinforced by the center plate, while the legs slant out at a 45-degree angle.

After trying multiple true dining tables-for-two that were all wrong, I found a small marble and iron side table sitting inconspicuously outside one of my favorite antique stores in Richmond ...