Now, there is a caveat. There is the normal 28” to 30” height for the top of a dining table but you also have to keep in mind that there is a minimum height for the bottom. If the drop down lip is too deep, you are going to scrape your knees when you scoot in.
Most chairs are about 17” to 18” tall to the top of the seat and you want to have at least 10” clearance between the chair and the bottom of the table top for someone to sit down comfortably. That means that we are really limited to about a maximum of a 3” tall lip if we are going to stay in the normal height range. Any more than that and it will be a tight fit.
You can do a taller edge, but now you have to raise the height of the top of the table. Dropping the chair height is not really in the works as your legs will stick out or bend uncomfortably when you sit down.
For this project, we shot over a drawing to our client to make sure we were all on the same page with his concrete dining table build. After approval we molded it up, poured, polished, and sealed with a water based polyurethane to provide excellent stain resistance.
We loaded the table top into our trailer, drove it over and dropped it right into place. It fit like a glove and we think you can agree it looks beautiful.