What color table top? (2023 Update)

I finally got my Koala dream cabinet last year, it's HUGE and holds both sewing machines and serger. My son refers to it as the Command Center. LOL I have worked on formica kitchen tables, wood dining room tables, the coffee table, my old sewing machine tables were dark wood, white and light blue. This one has an off white (ivory) dull surface and I love it. The sun comes in my window and hits the table in the mid afternoon and it's nice that there isn't any glare like from my old ones. I also have three task lights shining down on it and I don't get any glare from them either. I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE my ivory, non glare cabinet top.

Happy camper, Val

All of my cabinets are wood, some with a walnut brown satin others with a darker mahogany stain. It doesn't matter what color it is, go with what you like. On the other hand, for pattern layout working on a white surface may be helpful, though a cutting board or mat placed on top of the table will make that section of the table whatever color you want.

Rebecca

I hate my white table top. The light bounces up to my eyes, and I have trouble on darker fabrics making the eyes adjust from dark to light all the time. My old one was butcher block and that one was great. I've an ivory one too and that one is ok also. The white is too bright. It is kinda like that easy on the eye paper you can get in the office stores, it isn't bright white.

Photographers prefer medium grey, to help keep colours true, though that may not matter if you're using cutting mats anyway. Our photo library, sewing room and painting studio are all painted pale grey and white to try to prevent colour cast.

A satin or matt finish is kind to your eyes - no reflections.

Personally, I prefer laminate over wood, as I find it easier to clean and there's no grain for things to get caught in.

:) Trish

And since most cutting mats have a matte finish, that works fine.

Someone just gave me a large (5' X 8') non-pinnable type of mat, and it made me glad that I've been using the pinnable all these years. The non-pinnable does have a somewhat shiny surface, which has a bit of a reflection. I much prefer the non-shiny surface of the pinnable mat, although I'd never look a gift horse in the mouth, and this was a very nice gift.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

is this the same mack that is in loss control???

betsey "we do not inherit the earth, we caretake it for our children"