Rim Counter Table

Counter height, with somewhere to put your feet.

Four legs at the corners, square in section, straight down to the floor. A few inches off the ground they’re tied together by stretchers that cross in the middle. On a counter-height table that rail isn’t trim — it is the difference between sitting on a stool for ten minutes and sitting on one for an evening.

If you are comparing it with the Mesa, that table carries a wide slab at each end, which gives you an open middle and nothing at the ends. The Rim does the opposite: you can pull a stool up on all four sides, and there is a leg in each corner to work around.

Honest notes

• The stretchers are where shoes go. They will scuff before anything else on the table does, and that is the job they were built for.
• A leg in each corner means a stool at the end shares its space with one. Fine for most people, tight if you sit square.
• Counter height, not bar height. Measure your stools — you want roughly ten to twelve inches between the stool seat and the underside of the top.
• The frame is slender on purpose. It is braced to take someone leaning on a corner, but it is not a table to sit on.
• Give it two weeks before you’re rough with it. The oil finish takes fourteen days to cure — keep it dry and out of direct sun until then.
• Oak takes stain and we offer four finishes. Maple and walnut are finished natural, because they’re better that way.

Specifications

Made to order and shipped within ten business days, by hand, in New Braunfels, Texas.