Maple Kitchen Tables

All of our kitchen tables are custom-designed to your specifications, created from a number of beautiful hardwoods -- including solid maple.

Maple hardwood is available in hard maple, and maple in the following stain colors.

Custom Hard Maple Mayfaiir Kitchen Table	Natural Maple Harvest Kitchen Table
Custom Hard Maple and Cherry Riverside Kitchen Table	Custom Walnut and Hard Maple Mission Kitchen Table
Natural Hard Maple Montreal Kitchen Table	Royal Maple Montreal Kitchen Table

Maple Kitchen Tables

Available as the time-honored Birdseye maple, or as burled, spalted and even curly, this wood has been a treasure since the first settlers claimed the North American continent and set about building their tables and chairs.

When woodworkers say "maple", they almost universally mean hard maple – the same tree that New Englanders (and others in the northern tier of states) tap for maple syrup.

Hard maple – once the gold standard for axe and spear handles – is now used in everything from cutting boards (where its density prevents it altering the taste of food) to cabinets, and represents about four percent of the nation's available hardwood supply.

At Erik Organic, hard maple is used to make heirloom quality furniture. A prime example is the Mayfair Kitchen Table, a plank-top type table whose simple surface is lacking an apron. This style, in which trestles attach to an undercarriage, is a classic example of American Primitive – a design note carried forward in the brass-finished leg-bolt covers above the stretcher base.

Because of its simplicity, the Mayfair risks being stark, but its design is perfected by the addition of curved boards on the trestle base and curved support stanchions beneath the planked surface.

Of course, any of Erik Organic's kitchen table styles are also available in custom maple and hard maple, from the complex and ornate Parma to the simple but elegant Craftsman Kitchen Table, in colors ranging from palest parchment to rich rose maple.

With a Janka hardness rating that rivals oak or hickory, and a variegated grain that gives it eye appeal, various cuts of maple can display the Birdseye effect – the result of an unknown phenomenon – or spalting, which is a distinct black line within the grain. Curly maple is another eye-catching distortion within the grain that results in long wavy patterns, and burling (a result of stresses when the tree is growing) is another.

While these unusual grain patterns are a bonus, the sturdiness of unfigured maple is equally as valuable in creating heirloom quality furniture, and Erik's Amish craftsmen can offer you a multitude of style and color choices for your maple kitchen table.