Dining Room Table Leaf

Table Leaf/Skirt To Match Best Practical:

Making a new table leaf to match an existing table can be done, but the requirements are very wide ranging and include: wood specie, grain pattern, lumber versus veneer, inlay or cross banding, finish age darkness and stain/toner, gloss, etc.
    

How Made:

• New lumber leaves to match are normally about 10"-12" wide each. A place setting is two such leaves. We do not make wider lumber leaves due to warpage risks.
• A lumber leaf will usually run the total width with no cross banding at the ends.
• A crucial issue is whether the existing table is also being refinished, since that makes all the finishing aspects easier to solve.
• A veneered leaf always has a lumber cross banding on the end, and may have veneer cross-banding inlay on the top of the end. It would be made using a plywood substrate and vacuum bag veneering to achieve the veneer goal. Exact grain match cannot be guaranteed. A veneered leaf is normally 20"-22" wide, so twice the width for similar costs.

Skirts:

• A new leaf may or may not also have a requirement for skirts to match. The skirt should be carefully considered since if not flat with a routed bottom edge or molded bottom edge, it may have a large contour that we cannot effectively copy.
• Skirts would run $180 to $300 per leaf in addition to the cost for the leaf.

Cost of Table Leaf "Blanks": Without addressing the finishing or fitting aspects.

• A lumber leaf to match runs $540 to $840 for the 1^st leaf for 10-12" wide each.
• A veneer leaf with lumber cross band at end and no top inlay run the same, plus possible requirement to special order veneer, however the table leaf is normally 20"-22" wide so twice as much for same price.
• A veneer leaf with top cross band inlay adds $120-$180 or runs $600 to $900, however the table leaf is normally 20"-22" wide so twice as much for same price.
• Additional leaves at same time at 60%-75% of 1st leaf cost.

• IF the table is being refinished, add $180-$240 to achieve color matching between old and new wood.
• IF the table is not being refinished and the leaf needs to be finished best practical within a reasonable range, the finishing cost runs $300-$420. IF table itself is not being refinished we simply cannot guarantee a finish to match.

Fitting:

• A leaf made to match should be fitted to the table in the shop.
• The table top or an existing leaf must be here during fabrication.
• The table top itself must be here for final fitting before finishing. Pickup or Delivery of the table should be added.
• We can supply the new leaf blanks unfitted without having the table top at the shop and they should fit at the home, but we can not guarantee the fit.

Summary:

PRICE RANGES