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Furniture glass is the glass you actually touch: a dining or coffee table top, a protective sheet over a wooden desk, a bathroom or display shelf. It is a small order that goes wrong in predictable ways — glass too thin for the span it has to bridge, an edge that was never specified, annealed glass where toughened was needed. This is the national guide to getting a table top or a shelf right, and to the fabricators who cut them in your city.
16 furniture glass pages across 8 citiesupdated June 2026
Almost every furniture-glass order is one of these six. What separates them is how the glass is supported and how much work it is doing — those two things decide the thickness, the edge and whether the panel has to be toughened.
Here the glass is the structure: it carries plates, elbows and the occasional person leaning on it, supported only where the base touches it. That makes the unsupported span — not the table’s overall size — the number that sets the thickness, and 10 mm to 12 mm is the usual answer, with the thicker end for wide spans. A four-leg base supporting the glass near its corners is the easy case; a slim central pedestal is the demanding one.
A thinner sheet laid over an existing table, dresser or study desk. The surface underneath carries the load, so the glass is doing nothing structural and 6 mm to 8 mm covers most of these. Two things still matter: polished edges, because this is a sheet people run their hands along all day, and something soft between the glass and the surface so it is not resting on grit or hard points.
Furniture glass gets knocked, handled and cleaned constantly, which is the loading annealed glass is worst at — a chip on an annealed edge becomes a crack line, and when it fails it produces long shards. Toughened glass of the same thickness is several times stronger and breaks into small blunt granules, which is why safety glass is what any top or shelf people use should be. The trade-off is that it cannot be cut, drilled or re-edged once it leaves the furnace.
The edge is most of what you see and all of what you touch. A pencil (rounded) edge is the comfortable default; a flat polished edge reads more architectural; a bevel cuts a wide angled face around the perimeter that catches the light; an ogee is a shaped profile for heavier, more traditional pieces. Each step up is more machine time and more money, and every one of them is cut and polished before toughening — the edge you order is the edge you keep.
A shelf’s capacity falls away as the span grows far faster than it climbs when you add thickness, so the fix for a shelf that flexes is almost always another support or a shorter run rather than two more millimetres of glass. Short display and bathroom shelves are commonly 6 mm or 8 mm toughened; a long run, or one meant to hold books, wants thicker glass, a continuous back support or a bracket added in the middle. Keep the overhang past the outer bracket short, and use brackets with a soft liner so glass is never clamped on bare metal.
Ordinary float glass has a green cast that shows most at the edges, and the thicker the top, the greener that edge looks. Low-iron (extra clear) glass removes it at a higher price, and it is worth asking for on a thick top or over a pale surface where the tint would be obvious. Tinted, frosted and back-painted tops are all available too — on anything people sit at, ask how the finish and the toughening go together before you order.
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It depends on how it is supported. A top that bridges a base with unsupported glass in between is normally 10 mm or 12 mm, with 12 mm for wider spans and slim or central bases. A sheet laid over an existing wooden or stone top is fully supported and does no structural work, so 6 mm to 8 mm is usual there. The table top thickness guide sets the cases out side by side.
For anything used as a table, yes. Annealed glass chips at the edges, and a chip is where a crack starts; when it breaks it produces long shards. Toughened glass of the same thickness is several times stronger and breaks into small blunt granules. The one place annealed is still seen is a thin protective sheet fully supported on a solid top, and even there toughened is the safer specification.
A pencil (rounded) edge is the default and the most comfortable to sit against. A flat polished edge looks more architectural on a plain rectangular top. A bevel adds a visible angled band around the perimeter and suits a more decorative piece; an ogee is a shaped profile for heavier traditional furniture. The profile has to be specified before toughening, and each step up adds machine time and cost.
Short display and bathroom shelves are commonly 6 mm or 8 mm toughened. Beyond that there is no single rule, because capacity depends on the span, the load and how the shelf is supported — and it falls off with span much faster than it improves with thickness. Tell the fabricator the clear span, what the shelf will carry and how it is being fixed, and let them size it; if a shelf visibly flexes, add a support rather than assuming thicker glass will fix it.
Not once it is toughened — cutting, drilling or grinding a toughened panel shatters it. Sizes, corner radii, edge profile and any holes all have to be settled before fabrication. Annealed glass can be re-cut, but re-cutting leaves a raw edge that needs re-polishing and it is why the thin protective sheets are the only place this comes up.
Because ordinary float glass contains iron, which gives it a faint green cast you notice most through the thickness at an edge — and the thicker the top, the more obvious it is. Low-iron (extra clear) glass is made with less iron and reads near-colourless, at a higher price. On a thick top, or over a white or pale surface, it is worth asking for.
It depends on the thickness, the edge work, whether the glass is toughened or low-iron, and your city — and these are quoted per square foot in some markets and per piece in others. The ranges on this page are aggregated from Glassy’s published city pages and are indicative only. The Glass Price Guide has the detail, and a local quote against your actual sizes is the only real number.
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