Round or rectangular dining table?

[BaoWow]

Recently purchased a house and moving in shortly and planning furniture.

The main dining area is part of a kitchen/dining/living open-plan room. The room is approximately 30m long x 6m wide. The previous owners had a large rectangular dining table that was 240cm wide so there was “clearance” of over 1.5m each side so plenty of room to walk around it. Their table seated 8, but looked like you could cram in two more, if needed.

I’ve been looking for something of a similar size just because I saw how well their dining set filled the space but now I’m thinking that maybe a round dining table would look better?

My concern though is that it’s such a rectangular room, the round table will look out of place.

I’m also not sure of what size we’d need. It’s just two of us and, allowing for visitors, I can’t see that we’d ever need to seat more than 6, but it’s a big enough room so I don’t want a small table that looks lost.

Any ideas?

You could opt for the best of both and go for an oval one?

In such a large room I would choose an extensible, rectangular table. This would allow for seating of larger groups on the odd special occasion. One that is around 180cm in length with a 40cm extending leaf?
Most circular tables are not large, unless custom made and therefore ££££.
Really don't like oval ones!

You could opt for the best of both and go for an oval one?

I don’t think so. Kind of feels like that’s just a combination of the worst parts of each option!

In such a large room I would choose an extensible, rectangular table. This would allow for seating of larger groups on the odd special occasion. One that is around 180cm in length with a 40cm extending leaf?

I don’t think I’d go much smaller than 220cm. At 180cm, I’d have over 2m each side so think the table would feel a bit lost as it’d be smaller than the gap each side, if you get me?