Peak Kitchen Table: When Britain Buys, Month by Month

Furniture in Fashion reports that kitchen tables are bought against deadlines rather than in a peak season, and that no official UK series records furniture demand at product level by month. The ONS publishes seasonally adjusted monthly sales for household goods stores, and HMRC counts monthly property transactions, but neither identifies a table or links a move to a purchase. Our report sets out the four deadlines that put a date on the decision, the lead time they demand, and the geometry that decides whether the table works. Allow 60 cm of edge per diner and 90 cm to 100 cm of clearance behind chairs, which means a 150 cm by 90 cm table seating six needs a room of roughly 3.3 m by 2.7 m. Extending tables need two sets of measurements, and the clearance in the open position is the one households forget. A table size against room size chart runs through every common option....