A couple months ago I bought an oak dining room table on an on-line furniture store auction for $120 and I only had to drive 1 hr. 20 minutes to get it. (The nice thing is we had to go to that town for semthing else anyway so it realy wasn't an extra trip). It is polished nice and has rounded edges so the fabric slides over it very nicely. I put both leaves in the table and then my husband cut out the hole exactly where I wanted the sewing machine to sit and then he lowered the piece he cut out so my sewing machine sits down below the surface of the table top so the sewing is all at an even level. I love it and it beat spending thousands on a special table (which would have been little and I wanted a big table to be able to more easily work with bigger quilts). This tabel sits in a permanent spot in my sewing room.