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Based on your color criteria, it sounds like you want either walnut with some sapwood. Or maybe cherry. I'm not sure if you can get exactly what you're looking for without some coloring... The downside is that walnut and cherry can be a little pricey. Where to NOT buy wood: Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, et al. Too damn pricey. Where you SHOULD buy wood: find a hardwood lumber yard. Good chance you won't even find them online. YellowPages to the rescue. This is highly dependent on where you live. What state? Cost: Cherry, walnut, and other nice woods are a little expensive. Also, you're typically not buying boards. You're buying board-feet, which is volume. 12"x12"x1" = 1 bf. I prefer to compute the volume in inches and then divide by 144 to turn that into BF. Thicker wood is typically sold at a higher cost per bf, just because it's harder to dry, store, and generally handle that thin stuff. Assuming 78" x 40" table top and 2" thick, that would give you about 44 BF. Buy some extra to let you line up your glue up for a better, more pleasing grain match. Plus there's always waste. So maybe 50-55 BF. Why 2" thick? Obviously, you can adjust this down to suit a style. I prefer to get thicker wood and plane to thickness. Plus rough sawn stuff always finishes a few sixteenths thinner. I'd personally buy 8/4 for most dining tables. So then 55 BF of 8/4. My preferred lumber yard has that at $9.35 for walnut, $4.95 for cherry. Walnut blows your budget ($514 before tax) and cherry is right on target ($272.) Next, I would not do pocket holes. Not for a dining table. Really, not for any kind of table. I would strongly recommend using mortise and tenon for the frame. All you need, beside some careful layout and measuring, is a chisel and mallet for the mortise and a saw for the tenon. As you probably don't have excellent mortise chisels, it might be easier to drill out most of the waste and then clean up with chisels. But it's really up to you. And finally, don't screw the top to the frame. If you do this, the top will expand and contract with seasonal changes and destroy itself. You need to let the top move as it wants to. There exist fasteners that allow this. Or you can make cabinet makers buttons. More on reddit.com

you can get this gently used set for $300 Gently used seems a bit of a stretch here the wear on the chairs and cushions aren't great No decent pictures of the actual table to show the same worn edges on the chairs don't exist on the table More on reddit.com

Not sure what area you’re in, but I’ve seen lots of beautiful solid wood dining tables and chairs secondhand on fb marketplace, OfferUp, Craigslist, Nextdoor, and estate sales More on reddit.com