Good Morning,

Over the next couple of weeks I am going to put my hand to creating a large table for my house that can be folded away. The table will be used for two purposes:

 

1. Dinner parties and such, up to ten people seated comfortably around the table with plenty of space for various dishes and BBQ'd meats in the middle.
2. Fortnightly tabletop gaming sessions, about 7 D&D players with associated books, dice, maps and snacks need to fit around it.

The chairs I have sorted. And we intend to use a large table cloth, so the look of the table is unimportant.

After each event, the table will be removed/folded away and be replaced with my lounge suite and coffee table, it will resume it's function as my family's lounge.

• The original idea formed around getting a table tennis table and covering it, but the size is a little big and the legs would be annoying to sit around.
• So for my second thought, I imagined that one of those 2400mm x 1200mm sheets of plywood from Mitre10 would be almost ideal (Lounge 4330mm x 3800mm). It seems that it would fit nicely in my lounge and have plenty of room for people to sit around. I could then grab a couple of saw horses to form the legs, and attach a couple of 3x2 runners on the underside of the ply to 'lock' the sawhorses in place. As I say, not so important to look good, it'd be stained and covered with material table cloth.
• Now I am wondering about using some pine and making a surface and having 6 table legs on hinges that flip out and lock into place, but I'm not sure I could achieve a good result with this idea.

I'm almost almost completely inept with a hammer, but I do have access to a elderly home renovator that appears relatively interested in helping out.

I am wondering if there are any others ideas? Maybe even a link or two to your project or one similar? How would you approach this?