Dorel Asia Parsons Dining Table, Black

We bought this to use as an end table, we needed the large size. We cut 6 inches off the legs. Sturdy, easy to assemble and the finish is lovely. Great price! Came fast and packaged well.

I went to the Dorel Asia website and found this table. It was available at Amazon and Walmart. I ordered mine from Walmart because it cost less there. The table was packaged well, easy to assemble, is heavy and sturdy. And it looks fine unless you are expecting it to look like a parson's table. A parson's table has no apron, no overhang, and the thickness of the top is the same thickness as the legs. None of this is true about this table. It's called a parson's table on three websites yet the word anywhere on the shipping carton or within the included documentation. It's just a square table that looks like any other table. My vision is not very good, the photo and the description of parson's table led me to think I was buying a parson's table. Silly me. Oh I forgot to mention that someone went a little crazy with a staple gun on the underside of the tabletop. A few staples held some cords in place, i assume to help with lowering the part into the carton or for pulling it out. I simply flattened the carton and slid the tabletop out. But there were many more staples shot into the wood and most of them were broken off leaving sharp protruding barbs. It took me about 30 minutes to works at trying to pull these out but a few were too short to get a good grip on soI had to stick pieces of foam mounting tape over them. Even though they are under the top of the table they could potentially hurt someone. Like my toddler grandson, he might go under there.

Table was damaged when we received it