Dining/Kitchen Table Help

I am currently looking to purchase a new table and chair set. But this is the problem that I keep coming into. My home is an open-floor plan and we don't have a formal dining room. I don't know if I should get a round table which I love from Crate and Barrel that seats 8 with the leaf. or should I do something alittle more formal ?? What are you ideas ?? Would love to hear them...

TIA

Re: Dining/Kitchen Table Help

I don't have a formal dining room. I have the mahogany rectangular table from pottery barn. To make it more formal I just put a fancier table cloth and get a really striking center piece. I think it looks formal when I want it too.