#drop-leaf table

This small home’s space isn’t wasted on a separate dining room, because the homeowners drafted their high-ceilinged entry for the job. The antique drop-leaf table accommodates up to six diners comfortably, and seating brought from other rooms supplements the Victorian-style chairs on casters.

Built-in shelves, china cupboards, and niches are perfect places for displaying fragile items or all-of-one-kind country collections. Here, shelves are placed in and around a window that’s been fitted with translucent glass. The glass panel filters light and effectively silhouettes a collection of redware and American Indian art. The collection continues with several items of folk art and additional examples of redware placed on a New England birch drop-leaf table.