A wooden bench is worth buying because it is the one seat that works in every room — dining table, entryway, end of the bed, under a window — and a solid American black walnut bench survives all of them. Unlike upholstered benches that stain and veneered ones that chip and swell under wet boots, a solid oiled top sands and re-oils in place for decades.
At the dining table, allow about 24 inches of bench length per person; a bench seats more than chairs in the same space and tucks fully under the table. Every Walnutry bench is made to order in solid walnut and backed by 90-day returns.