Placing anything metal or ceramic on glass makes the most awful noises though, how do you cope with how loud it is?
Not OP but: Placemats.
Placemats.
My aunt and uncle have a big wooden dining table, and like 50 different kinds of placemats
My aunt did not like eating peas. And she hid them behind the refrigerator for more than a year.
Moral of the story: be glad it’s the underside of the table and not behind the refrigerator.
I’m glad I don’t have a young child, for similar reasons
I always have the irrational or maybe rational fear of glass breaking. Any furniture I buy doesn’t have any glass elements.
It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don’t want glass furniture.
I believe our table (and most tables) are tempered glass, so if it breaks it shouldn’t be dangerous.
We did get rid of a glass coffee table though, for that reason