Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The Great Table Exchange




From Point A to Point B to Point C to Point D.
That's how it went down one Saturday.

A new table comes from the store to Youngest Son's house.
(A to B).

Their old table comes to our house (that's B to C).

Our old table goes to young friends' house (C to D).






I loved our old table. And old it was, a pub table with leaves that 
pulled out from underneath each end. 
We loved both eating at it and using it as a work table.
But we've never had enough sturdy chairs and it was time.
Our "new-to-us" dining room table has good sturdy chairs. 
It can be extended to seat 12.
And even though the table's about the same size as the other,
it strangely makes the room look bigger.
With a piano in the dining room you'd think we'd have some dinner music.
But the pianist is usually busy serving the meal.
I enjoy seeing my great-great grandmother's white bowl on a lace tablecloth.

18 comments:

  1. Beautiful new table and chairs! And yes, it definitely makes the room look bigger. Maybe because the pub table looks like it had a massive top. Fun to rotate the furniture, knowing it will go to a good home. :-)

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  2. Lovely exchanges all around. I would love your old table...oh my...what a lot of character! Its new owners must be thrilled.

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  3. Lovely table exchange, and I love your new one!

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  4. I've heard of musical chairs, but...lol. Your new to you dining room looks lovely. Great exchange all the way round. :D

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  5. I love that you played musical chairs with your furniture. It is nice to keep things with family and friends.

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  6. Visual change always does me good. And in your case, everyone was blessed. :)

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  7. Sounds like good recycling to me. I like your old table but the heaviness of it probably made the room feel smaller. Your new dining set is beautiful and it's nice that it will expand to seat a large group. I'm sure you will host many a gathering around your new table.

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  8. What a nice exchange all around. I'm partial to traditional furniture and your dining room looks lovely. Your great-great grandmother's bowl is a real treasure, Dotsie! I enjoyed reading about it. ♥

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  9. Don't you love it when a trade like this makes a number of people happy? I like the new to you set that's in your dining room now and look forward to seeing some posts including it.

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  10. That is so great! Everyone wins! I think your room seems larger because of the more 'feminine' lines of your new table and chairs. It is so very pretty!

    Deanna

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  11. Like a furniture merry-go-round! But everyone gets what they wanted in the end. You are right about the dining room looking larger - Deanna's theory seems to hit the nail on the head.

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  12. It really does make the room look bigger. Isn't it a sweet thing when you can do something like this with your children - everyone is a winner!

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  13. Your new table looks fabulous!! When everyone is happy, you have scored a win!
    Oh, and I also love your grandmother's bowl. It looks right at home there.

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  14. I love the idea of a furniture exchange! I'd love to exchange my dining room table for another. I don't know anyone I can do that with, though. So, I'm hoping to sell my service for 12 of Bonnie Brae Pfaltzgraff dishes so I can buy something different, but the consignment shops are telling me there is no market for sets of dishes anymore! One said, the young people don't want it and the old people already have 3 (that's me, except I have 4 sets of dishes but the other 3 aren't for 12 and are all so different I can mix and match them).

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  15. That was a win-win-win situation!! I love that your new table will seat 12... enough room for lots of good laughter and fun. Isn't it a shame that the pianist can't play, work the kitchen AND be sitting at the table with everyone at the same time? ;) Too many hats need wearing at once. blessings ~ tanna

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  16. You will use it with 12 or more people but I am sure you will miss your old table.
    It holds many memories. I still miss the pine kitchen table we had growing up.

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  17. this seems veerrrry familiar!

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  18. I like the new table and chairs and it looks good in the room

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