Contemporary Leads Casual and Formal Dining Styles
Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, September 16, 2011
This week we take a look at the most popular product features in casual and formal dining. Shoppers, through FurnitureDealer. net's website network of furniture stores, reveal the attributes they like best with wish list selections and email inquiries.
With styles, contemporary was chosen by two-fifths of casual and formal dining shoppers. Traditional styles were most popular with one-third of consumers checking out the formal category and 22% of those looking at casual dining groups.
The following tables present the casual and formal dining attributes chosen by consumers visiting furniture store websites from June to August of this year.
Dining wish lists | ||
Style | Casual dining | Formal dining |
Contemporary | 41% | 39% |
Traditional | 22% | 33% |
Casual | 28% | 17% |
Cottage | 5% | 7% |
Mission | 4% | 4% |
Table base | ||
Legs | 44% | 71% |
Single pedestal | 52% | 9% |
Double pedestal | 3% | 14% |
Trestle | 1% | 6% |
Wood finish | ||
Dark | 56% | 47% |
Medium | 34% | 40% |
Light | 10% | 13% |
Tabletop shape | ||
Rectangle | 32% | 87% |
Round | 42% | 5% |
Square | 15% | 3% |
Oval | 8% | 3% |
Other | 3% | 2% |
Source: FurnitureDealer.net | ||
About the data
Founded in 1996, FurnitureDealer.net operates 850 websites that all help online home furnishings consumers do business through local brick and mortar retail stores. The company publishes and manages an extensive digital product content library of 80,000 big ticket furnishings products from 450 brands. The Eagan, Minn.-based company's network includes 50 of the 250 largest independent furniture retailers.
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