I think they should be fine together... Here is a link that might be useful: rustic table

Lyfia, all great points you brought up, it really helps me plan and think. Honestly we have no set time frame for having this project done, since we have an up and running kitchen in the other part of the house and we are working on the new kitchen as time allows. I spent part of this week filling every little brad hole with putty and sanding everything. This weekend we should get a primer on and if dry time allows the walls and ceilings painted. I think we are at the point we are going to put in the cabinet order too. We still have the floor to put down, sand and seal. Tile the whole range wall, put up shelves. The wiring is done, we still need to run plumbing .. which means going under the house in the Summer .. YIKES! We live in copperhead country, not a fun prospect. Last year my DH got bit, we were very fortunate it was a 'dry bite' though! Valinsv, thanks for the help and suggestions, they are very helpful! Les, I love those 50's dinette chairs and if I was going to do a booth, I'd be all over them. I honestly don't think with a very rustic table I'd be happy with them ... even though they look super cushy to sit on. :) If I do go with these chairs I'd have seat pads made for them. I still haven't put my chair order in, I was all ready to go, now I'm hemming and hawing over details again. Part of me wants to go this way, part can really see everyone sacked out in a comfy booth and chairs playing board games and drinking coco. I know that everyone brought up very valid reasons to stay away from a booth, like people being inconvenienced by having to move to let the inside people out, etc. The thing is though we don't have those types of sit down and eat parties where I see it being a problem. When we entertain adults it's normally in a relaxed, casual setting outside on the deck or around the pool area, where we have large tables in each area. When it's just the five of us here, there would be plenty of seating that we could all spread out. I'm lucky that my girls really do get along, there is not alot of she's looking at me, touching me, breathing my air problems. *LOL* I grew up with 3 siblings, I know how that goes, we spent a lot of time bickering. ;) When it's the kids and their friends having snacks, I don't see it being a problem where the kids would feel inconvenienced. So in short I'm still stuck, I think! *LOL* Sometimes I can see right away the path I want to follow, sometimes I start second guessing myself. *sigh* Normally my Husband will chime in with his feeling on the matter and we'll work it out in a way that we are both relatively happy .. this time he really doesn't seem to care, well other than wanting me to make a plan so we know how to finish the room. ;)

update - I bought the CL hutch, but decided to use it in my foyer. Across from the hutch, I have my antique Irish pine baking table w/a scalloped apron, which better complements the CL hutch than my current one. Also, the CL hutch is huge, and I think its mass will work better in my foyer, which has 13 ft ceilings. Definitely need to paint it, and I'm thinking Farrow and Ball off black. I'm not sure if I'm going to stain the backboards a darker color or paint them black. I really need to figure out what to put on the shelves though, and was thinking maybe some ironstone pitchers, which I like to collect. I was hoping to display my green milk glass cake platters and bowls, but I don't think that will work in the foyer. The hutch I now have in my foyer (shown in the photo w/chairs) will be in my dining room for now. It's much less narrow, so won't overlap much, if at all, with the table. It doesn't have a buffet surface but does seem to work well with the chairs, and I can display ironstone on the shelves. jane - I ended up going with the Hubbardton Forge 8-arm oval chandelier in dark smoke finish and with the stone (opaque) glass. I have the clear glass in the HF chandy in my foyer and think it might make this fixture more "country" than the stone, but was afraid the light might be too harsh over a dining table. Also, I'd like to display ironstone in my hutch, and thought the stone glass would complement that. jamaraz - I think you could definitely make this table work with more formal chairs, and believe the website actually shows it paired with either the camelback or similar chairs. Your chandy sounds lovely. I was so wanting a french wire birdcage type chandy, but DH preferred the forged iron one we ended up deciding on. It does work better with other furnishings and lighting in our house.

Rugwise,try a "contemporary" of some sort. I would prefer no border and no center medallion. Because it will be under a dining table, I like a lowish nap,tight weave,not too light or too dark.Just right;-) For inspo check out rugs at https://www.therugcompany.com/us-en/  http://www.mansourmodern.com/index.php and RH Modern. Are you up for the constrained riot of multi-colour a Paul Smith Swirl would provide? Do you prefer the far more restricted colourways at RH? More strong geometry....as bold as Kerry Joyce's Satori? Decisions,decisions. Once you have the look you want in mind,you can shop for it across the budget spectrum.