Jocoevol Round Dining Table

Is the Jocoevol Round Dining Table worth buying?

The Jocoevol Round Dining Table is worth buying at £115.96 if you want a circle for two to four people and have 107 cm of clear floor to give it. It seats four, stands 76 cm high, weighs 17 kg, and 1,160 owners rate it 4.4. Nothing else on this page gives you a 107 cm round top with a shelf under it for less money.

Skip it if the room is tight or the household is bigger than four. A circle of this size uses its full 107 cm in every direction, so it cannot be tucked down a side wall the way a rectangle can, and a fifth guest has nowhere to sit. Buyers who need six around a table should look at the 140 cm boards instead.

What does 107 cm of tabletop actually give you?

Square the 53.5 cm radius, multiply by pi, and the Jocoevol top comes to 8,990 cm2 of eating surface. That is a 42 inch circle, which is the same measurement under the other name, and it fits four place settings with a serving dish in the middle. Each of four diners gets roughly 84 cm of the 336 cm edge.

Divide that by the price and you get 78 cm2 for every pound, which is 1.29p per square centimetre. The £59.99 VASAGLE Golden Oak Kitchen Table returns 175 cm2 per pound on its 140 x 75 cm rectangle, more than twice the surface for £55.97 less. You are paying for the round shape and the shelf, not for area, and that is a fair trade only if the shape is what you actually wanted.

What comes in the box and how do you live with it?

One pack arrives with the table, an assembly guide and the installation tool. There are no chairs in it, so the four people who sit down bring their own seating, and a screwdriver is the only tool the build asks for. Once it is up, the cross-shaped base keeps the space under the top open, which means stools slide away between meals and no leg sits where a chair needs to go.

The top is a 25 mm MDF panel in a rustic brown wood grain over a carbon steel frame. It is heat resistant, scratch resistant and waterproof, so a hot casserole goes straight down without a mat and spilled gravy wipes off. At 17 kg the whole table is light enough for one person to reposition, and it stands 76 cm high, the height a standard dining chair is built around.

Where does the Jocoevol Round Dining Table fall short?

The footprint is the real cost. A 107 cm circle needs 107 cm of clear floor in every direction, and because a curve only touches a wall at one point, you cannot reclaim the space behind it. In a narrow kitchen that is the whole idea gone, which is why this table suits a dining room or an open-plan corner rather than a galley.

The top is board, not timber, so a deep scratch stays where it lands and the surface cannot be sanded back the way solid oak can. The shelf is fixed inside the base, so whatever you store on it lives there permanently and you cannot lift it out when you want the floor back. It is also an indoor table: MDF and its finish are not built for rain, so a patio is not an option.

How does the Jocoevol compare with other tables on this page?

Against the VASAGLE Golden Oak Kitchen Table at £59.99, the Jocoevol costs £55.97 more and offers 8,990 cm2 against 10,500 cm2. Take the VASAGLE if the priority is feeding four to six people on a rectangle for the least money; take the Jocoevol if the round shape and the storage shelf are what you came for.

Against the Tribesigns Round Dining Table at £158.99, the Jocoevol is £43.03 cheaper and 13 cm narrower across, 107 cm against 120 cm, which is 8,990 cm2 against 11,310 cm2. The Tribesigns is for a dining room that can carry a 26.3 kg table and a wider circle. The Jocoevol is the round table for the smaller of the two rooms.

Frequently asked questions

The questions below cover the measurements, the seating, what is in the pack and how the table behaves day to day. Everything here comes from the same product data behind the table above.