The most common call we get at our Jarvisburg shop starts the same way: “I bought a table and now the chairs don’t fit.” Here is the sizing math we use, and it takes about two minutes with a tape measure.
Step 1: Measure your usable space, not your deck
Chairs need 36 inches of clearance behind them to pull out and walk past. Measure your deck or patio, then subtract 3 feet on every side where someone will be seated. What is left is your table footprint.
Step 2: Match table size to seat count
- Two to three people — a 30 inch square or 31 inch round table.
- Four people — a 42 inch round or 42 inch square table. This is our best-selling size on Outer Banks decks.
- Six people — a 72 inch rectangle table.
- Eight or more — a 6 foot picnic table or two 42 inch rounds pushed together.
Step 3: Allow 24 inches of table edge per seat
A 42 inch round table has roughly 132 inches of edge, which is five 24-inch seats on paper and four comfortable ones in practice. That is why our Curved Adirondack 5-Piece Dining Set is built as one table plus four chairs, not five.
Step 4: Buy the set, not the pieces
Every set below is sized, priced and colour-matched so the pieces arrive together in the same frame colour, in one shipment, at 5% less than buying them separately:
- Curved Adirondack 5-Piece Dining Set — $3,223, seats 4
- Traditional 5-Piece Dining Set (Low Back) — $3,123, seats 4
- Curved Adirondack 7-Piece Dining Set — $5,140, seats 6
- Traditional 7-Piece Dining Set (High Back) — $5,099, seats 6
- Picnic Package — $2,493, seats 8
One more thing: poly lumber does not move
All of our furniture is built from 95% recycled HDPE poly lumber with stainless hardware. It will not rot, splinter, crack or need painting, and it does not warp out of square the way wood does — so the set you size today still fits together in fifteen years.
