BTW
Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 04:33PM By the way, remember way back in July-ish when I mentioned that we were replacing our kitchen table? Yeah. We did that. ;)
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As you can see...new table. (We liked our old one just fine...and that one was definitely a step up from the card table we were using before, lol. But, the chairs were falling apart and Micah didn't even have a chair...just a step stool, lol.) So, Nathan made the new table from a big slab of butcher block from IKEA and their desk leg mounting system thing. It's bigger than our previous table...which is perfect for growing boys. ;) Nathan also gets the credit for his "ah-ha!" moment when he realized we could simply rotate the table orientation 90 degrees to fit everyone better and enable everyone to see the television, as that had caused arguments over who had to sit with their back to the family room, lol.
Yes, we sometimes eat and watch tv at the same time. ;) I totally get all the arguments for making dinnertime around the table a dedicated family time and have fond memories of that as a kid. I do. But. I also figure that the reasons for that mostly center around reconnecting and spending a few moments altogether when the rest of your day tends to be spent apart. As a homeschooling family, we're together pretty darn much already, so I figure it's okay. ;)
Anyhow. Our plan had been to go eclectic and let each person pick his/her own chair. We spent a couple months searching for five different chairs that were...
- Sturdy (necessary, given active boys)
- Not ugly (though this was tough since our interpretations of ugly differed, lol)
- Either wooden or red or black or able to be painted (though Nathan definitely preferred they be already painted as the idea of sanding and painting was unappealing)
- The right size (we toyed with the idea of stools or a bench for the younger two)
- Not upholstered (for the same reasons that I think carpeted dining rooms and children don't work) and
- Not horribly expensive (this actually proved to be one of the most difficult criteria...decent chairs are spendy!!...got to the point we'd be sitting at a restaurant wondering where they got their chairs and whether we could convince them to sell us one, lol)
Yeah. It wasn't working so well. ;) We managed to find two at different flea markets. Then, ultimately, we gave up. We discovered, then, that IKEA had added a new chair design that we actually liked and that, miraculously, met our criteria. It even came in different colors. So. Matching chairs, different colors. Yay!
(Mine's red, Noah is obviously black, Nathan and Micah are wooden and Asher's is white...which mostly coordinates to each person's desk color except my desk is wooden. But, my office is painted red, so that's close enough. I'm still debating rearranging the seating so that the red and black aren't right next to each other, but it works for now.)
And that's our kitchen table story. Enthralling, I know. ;)
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I like it! :)