Dining Room

Well the big day is just around the corner. We have our final walk through Monday night and get the keys to our first house at that time. Of course this means that we are thinking a lot about what we want to do with the house, both in the near and distant future. The near future of course includes furnishing the house.


Our beautiful little formal dining room is square and has a small built in china hutch and chair railing. As we have never had a formal dining room and a separate breakfast nook we only have one dining room table with chairs. Our current dining room table is not at all formal and is also a rectangular shaped table which would work better in the breakfast nook so we need to get a new table to go with our current chairs, of course we will also have to figure out chairs to go with our current table too.


We have decided that a round table (preferably with a leaf) would be the best choice for our formal dining room, something in a darker wood color to provide a nice contrast to our chairs and make the space feel more formal would be great. Of course we really love the look of the pedestal tables, however the reviews for the lower end pedestal tables say that they tend to be rather wobbly and the finishes often scratch easily and some of them even come off of the tables - not good. This is leading me to leaning towards a low end round table that is neither a pedestal or real wood. Of course when the little man is a little older we will most likely buy a quality solid wood pedestal table for the dining room though, but we just don't see the point in spending the money when our little guy will most likely just damage the table in the next few years anyhow. I found a round table that is a dark brown-black color with a leaf for $150 which I think may very well be the right table for us right now.


This is the table without the leaf extension - seats 4













This is the table with the leaf extension - seats 6