Raise your hand if your kitchen table - or dining room table - is made of wood? Yep, pretty much all of you. See, wood is one of the most common materials for tables, but it's also surprisingly fickle ...

Our family's round, hand-me-down butcher block kitchen table has seen a lot of love in its day. It was once my father and his ex-wife's kitchen table, then my parents', then my brother's, then my ...