This table looks so precious in our French country-style kitchen. This is our first home together and we wanted to invest in better furniture, so we were pleased to find it was real, heavy-duty wood, and not that fake wood filled with cardboard. We have a small dining space but love entertaining, so the drop leaves really help us out so we don't have a bulky table hogging space when we don't need it. The best part: the leaves are really easy to raise and drop.