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The table bed is still indispensable classic in some regions of our country, such as Andalusia, Extremadura and Castilla – La Mancha, Spain. Tradition, for wisdom in the cottages that had no heating, still alive and urban generations yet still collect around of it, well covered with skirts and the love of the calorcillo coming out of the Brazier, although you now coals have been replaced by electrical resistance and rugs that traditionally covered are rabidly current designs.

How to sell them has also evolved and already you don’t need go to the cacharrería or the basketry of the people, we can buy them online without any difficulty. We have at our disposal different sizes and qualities to choose from, both round and rectangular from the cheapest of pine until other expensive and a bit more resistant wood-based versions of has. It is customary that both the envelope and the platform that serves as support to the Brazier are chipboard and legs and structure are solid. A skirt in winter usually sheltered warm color fabric traditionally used to cover the stretcher. Arriving summer removed support of the Brazier, which is detachable, flooring and changed skirt another lighter in light colors. To protect cloth skirt the rubbing and dirt is often put a glass polished edges cut to the diameter of the envelope of the table.

Textile shops you will find a wide variety of skirts for every season, from the warm based polar or finish fabric of velvet to the lighter linen or cotton in bright colours. We will not have difficulty in finding other accessories textile game, such as cushions or curtain, falls so we can easily create a composition balanced with our tastes and the atmosphere of our House.

Obviously we also have the option to make us skirts ourselves, although this requires some skill manual, especially if the shape of the table is square. Someday so we’ll explain in a detailed post.

In the images we see above you can find an interesting alternative to the seasonal change of faldillas. As you observaréis in this case the structure is not the traditional one, is has been replaced by a normal table well finished with varnish or lacquer and turned legs or estríadas. The designed platform for the Brazier has been added so that we can easily at withdraw summer without hurting legs.

The advantage of this version is for the same price we have on the one hand a traditional table and on the other table stretcher when we want. Thus, in summer or when we want, we can remove the cristal and the slopes without fear to teach the embarrassment of the agglomeration.

Apart from meeting point can also use tables stretcher as supplementary tables, e.g. in children’s rooms in the Hall, which can play an interesting role as exhibitors or the angle that form the sofas, replacing the traditional. That they are also very affordable we can consider them as tables of transition, while we decide the final model or waiting for better times.