The slider idea occurred to me but it seems like a kludge - when you slide the table back it’s still way bigger than is necessary.
I wonder about getting a new round table made and then finding some hollow aluminum slats (like the ones the compact “table in a bag” setups use) that could just roll out into the gap for the bed. Roll-up means they’re reasonably compact and aluminum means light and not unwieldy to deal with.
Just don’t know if they’d be strong enough in the end considering that area bears a lot of weight when someone’s climbing into and out of bed and might have ones entire body weight bearing on one knee or something.
