When considering dining room tables do you prefer the tables of yesteryear or the styles of today?
I have such a vast love for well constructed furniture, I don't know that I'd even know where I'd start choosing the "right" dining room set for my own home. We're still using the same table from my husband's apartment back in the mid 90's. It's small, but nice and I'd classify it as more modern than yesteryear.
We have a small teak table with chairs that once belonged to his grandmother. The chairs he inherited, the table he bought when he moved from his parent's home. So... our table and chairs have a history of sorts, making them all the more lovely. History is what makes me crave the furniture of old. There's something really charming about the
dining table (pictured below) I found online on a digital library site. It reminds me of an antique sewing machine table I saw once upon a time. Don't you love it?
When it comes to furniture of today, I love simple and the fanciful. My sister-in-law has a gorgeous dining room set built by a local Amish builder. It's breathtaking. Not simple at all... rolling and full... the thick wooden table legs are something to behold.
One of my favorite things to do when visiting a friend's home is to check out their furniture and home decor... it's sorta like idea shopping! I've found myself admiring cherry tables with a sleek and simple design. Straight legs, with straight leg chairs. No frills at all can be quite nice.
The RoomPlace dining room furniture is one spot I found offering such simplicity and elegance like what I've featured below.
Elegant can mean something different to everyone I suppose. To me elegant is more about the quality of the materials (like real wood!) than anything else. I don't much enjoy the budget furniture sold in boxes... the "some assembly required" furniture... or as I like to call it, particleboard on legs. This is what you'd expect to find in a college student's dorm room, not in a families dining room. So, ok perhaps I'm spoiled, but not as you might assume. The only furniture my husband and I have purchase in 12 years of marriage is a television armour and two baby beds. So... we're not exactly practicing furniture snobs. Even though we'd like to be! lol
Today we all (kids included) have beds on frames with no foot or headboards, we have living room furniture from my husband's college apartment, and a hand-me-down dresser in our master bedroom. Our desk was salvaged from a university dumpster... which still breaks my heart. It's solid oak! We also pulled out 4 matching chairs, also full oak. My husband restored them and we have an old teacher's desk (again all oak) in our garage waiting for a rainy day to get it's face-lift.
The only other pieces of furniture in our home were built by my husband in his dad's wood shop. Oak and beautiful! He stained them to look somewhat like teak in order that they'd match his teak dining room table. Today he doesn't have the freedom to spend countless hours building and staining furniture from scratch, but what a blessing to have something to pass down to our children made by their father's hands.
What's your dining room style preference? Or... are you like me and like it all! lol
Blogger Tips - Get This Gadget
Posts
