Solid Acacia Wood Dining Table

I’ve always wanted to buy one piece of solid acacia wood to be used as a dining table. I didn’t know where to put it because we already have a dining table at home. I think I now have a space for it, in our farmhouse.

There are dozens of traders selling mostly acacia wood in Santa Rosa – Tagaytay Road. I checked out the prices at the beginning of this year and they ranged from 25,000 to 50,000 depending on the sizes.

Last week I’ve decided I was ready to buy a 3 meters long solid wood for my table at the farm. I went to two stores and was shocked at how expensive the woods have become. Gone are the 50,000 – 80,000 range. A 2.5 meters long x .90 wide is P120,000 to 140,000 each. I found an unfinished 3.5 meters long by 1 meter wide and the owner wanted 150,000. When I haggled, she agreed to shave off 10,000 only. My head was spinning. I didn’t know that in less than a year the prices of wood would double or even triple.

Somehow I also feel guilty patronizing wood cutters. I couldn’t imagine how old this tree must have been only to be cut down by loggers. Sayang.

I didn’t buy. I am not sure yet if I want to spend 140,000 on a dining table we would seldom use. Isipin ko muna. I’ll decide in February. Baka by that time naman eh 200,000 na isa. Nay ko po.