Would you buy a dining table made using innovative light weight construction methods if it had the same look, quality and feel as a solid wood table and cost less?

If it has the same look, feel and quality then what’s the difference?
Weight?

I guess having the same quality would also indicate that it is as sturdy too.
No brainer…buy the cheaper one.

One too many furniture questions from you today?

That’s the last one. Just researching my final year project.

I’d want to know more about how it was made. If the solid wood table came from, say, a craftsman using hardwoods that grew in the area and would help the local economy while preserving traditional crafts, and the newer table were made from toxic materials by orphans in a coal-fired plant in the Guangdong Province with the waste killing fish in the Pacific, well, those are factors to take into account besides price and appearance.

But then, I’m crazy like that. I’d probably actually buy a second-hand one at the resale shop or Kiwanis sale anyway.

Hmmm, that’s a great point, laureth.
I’m anti-toxic-fish-killing tables made by child-labor too.

I would probably shop Craig’s List or the local classifieds for used tables before I went that route.

No

I might, depending on where I was at in my life…i.e. in college, first table in new home etc.

But for the “I’m gonna be looking at this for the next sixty years table”....then no.

here’s a good cheap option.

I might.

if i had to buy one, i’d probably go for the cheapest if it’s indeed only lighter than a regular one. still if i already had one, i wouldn’t switch it for the ‘innovative’ one

Lighter is better for online shipping, but with grand babies I would worry about them being able to pull it over on themselves if it’s to light.