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We got a really nice G Plan extending table for not much money. We also figured that with kids your furniture gets trashed. I think I'd struggle to cope with eating, crafts and the general hitting things on a £2.5k table.
We are luckily in a period where the general fashion seems to for stuff that looks like mass production furniture from the demographic dying and moving into retirement homes. Or else people want really simply made industrial chic that all looks like DIY. Maybe I'm being too dismissive, but both seem a long way from the craftsmanship of unfashionable antique brown furniture, which in turn makes dropping that sort of money on a new table a bit of a con. Not to mention environmental waste.
If you have a car and can visit charity shops outside London they also yield great results. If you're in North London I can find out what the circuit we usually do is and pm you.
If you don't have a car, there are a few good London vintage furniture shops. There's obviously a mark up for them driving around charity shops and polishing what they find, but it will still be cheaper for what is ostensibly the same product.
Also look at German ebay furniture sellers. Even with postage (often not as much as you think) they are still well priced.