Our kitchen table

For years we had a breakfast bar in the kitchen which is where the two of us eat but finally decided to take it out and replace it with a small round glass table when we put the house up for sale. Having decided against moving and then having the kitchen replaced we've kept the table. Our dining table is a solid oak German one which extends out to 11 feet with 3 panels with a matching wall unit. It cost a fortune about 20 years ago and has seen many family parties and celebrations over the years - we tried to sell the whole suite recently as we were amalgamating 2 homes into one and were also having laminate flooring laid but no one was interested - even the charity shops said it was too big and heavy so we decided to keep it. I'm so glad we did - it suits the room and the flooring and looked so nice on Christmas day. We plan to have the chairs reupholstered in Feb and it will certainly outlive us. It does however become a dumping ground for stuff until I can put it away!

I found a parkerknoll chair in local charity shop for £30! It's very comfy and I'm going to repaint it in antique paint and recover it in patchwork. But - I've been saying that since I bought it two year's ago and it's still the same as it was ??

I just flicked through and saw my post and thought it sounded rather bossy Greyduster, it wasn't meant like that

I have seen Stag Minstrel for sale on Ebay when I was trying to match some, but we've been lucky enough to inherit a couple of things from an elderly friend.

You could try on Ebay Greyduster

DH has a Stag Minstrel tall dressing chest which we bought in a sale from a very good furniture retailer. I wish now we had bought the matching smaller one too, but at that time we couldn't fit it in anywhere. Now we can and of course they don't make them anymore.

Our kitchen table is an ancient second hand one. However much I clean it, I am sure there are years of dirt embedded in the cracks! When we extended our kitchen years ago, we thought we might replace it with a nice modern one but the children (grown up) rebelled. You can't get rid of that, we have sat there for years, it's got memories! So, it is still here and every time I look at it, I think of them!

We do have a very nice second hand one in the dining room which is used once a year t Xmas!!!

Ours is G plan with a dressing table that DH calls ' the flight deck'.
I should get rid of it in exchange for something more useful.

Our is the design called duet. Light outer frames and darker drawers and doors and a very trendy headboard for those days, in onepiece with a single drawer included on each side. We thought we were really with it.

I love the Stag bedroom furniture and could have inhearited some, but I've always lived in houses with fitted wardrobes.

I still have Stag bedroom furniture in a spare bedroom bought in 1960.

I am looking for a wing back chair though, in patchwork if anyone knows of anywhere that does them. Also, are they comfy to sleep in?

Nice to know that we are retro rather than old-fashioned!

That's what DH used to wear in the Far East when he was in the Army, J52! Great legs, big turn on! Go for it?!

I have G-plan: stacking little tables, £10 from Oxfam, and a chest of drawers remaining from a bedroom set which was a present to me in 1951!

DH is sitting at our 1958 ( inhearited) Ercol dining table playing with Mechano! Shall I go upstairs and get him some short trousers and long fawn socks!

Ercol and G plan is very fashionably retro these days - have a look on eBay. Lots of people don't want " new" furniture that is mass produced in China or Romania, they'd rather have something made in UK that will stand the test of time.

I come from a large family and our kitchen table doubled as a table tennis table

We don`t have a table, the room is far too small. Until we moved here, we`d always had a large (to start with) square solid oak table with really thick, carved legs, but the rooms in this house are too small.

Surprising how Mackintosh, Ercol and Parker Knoll all stand the test of time. Friends of ours still have the Ercol dining suite they bought when they moved into their first house forty odd years ago - a table, six chairs, a sideboard and a matching display cabinet. She has reupholstered the dining chairs a few times, but it is still handsome, well crafted, serviceable furniture and doesn't really look all that dated (and who cares anyway).

My original Mackintosh dining set was passed on to DD when she had her first house. When Mum died her Mackintosh table and chairs went to a DGD but her wall unit fitted into my dining-room. 70's teak and looks a bit dated but sturdy and providing lots of storage.
My pine kitchen table became a 'computer desk' while the chairs are in DD's kitchen.
Current kitchen table is small and square and is used mostly by the DGC's.
I'm all for furniture being passed around the family according to need and space!

Another Mackintosh fan here. When himself got a tax refund it was spent on the table, rectangular with 2 folding[ inside] leaves, can seat 14 fully extended. It used to be in the kitchen where all squashed round, now it has its own room. Sadly the chimney in that room collapsed and the fireplace is solely decoration.

Been used well and still as good as original. Chairs are what we accumulated over the years.

I wouldn't either. Most of my furniture is second-hand, charity shop or - a few pieces - from my father.
What is new is four plain flatpack bookcases for many books, and this computer stand. Oh, and my bed was new. (Now need a divan type as it is getting very difficult to make.)

Table in the kitchen cost me a tenner, formica top, two drop leaves, slim design to put away if needed. I love it though as I can get away with doing all my craft on it and it still cleans up, and I clip the dog on it as well as use it for wallpapering on. Plus it has seen a few Christmas dinners on it too.

Table in the living room, circular one, in cream wrought iron fancywork. Positioned under the window so I can sit and watch the world go by while having my morning cuppa. Cost me about £60.00. I wouldn't dream of paying any more as the ones I have do the job I need them for and look great. I wouldn't pay near a thousand pound for a table. I couldn't afford to but even if I could, I wouldn't.

We also had Mackintosh but ours was rectangular. We had the lovely sideboard as well. We passed them on to a friend of S when they first got a house so we had it for many years. We have mahogany now rather ornate and if I were younger I would replace it with solid oak. We got our Mackintosh from Hopewell's in Nottingham a wonderful shop.

We had, for many years, a Mackintosh teak extending dining table and chairs in our dining kitchen, which we both loved. Good solid wood. After years of good service, and having survived the ravages of a growing family, the chairs started to become a bit 'unstable', so we decided to give the table to a charity shop, throw the chairs away, and replace it with a new suite, which is lovely, but I miss the Mackintosh. Being round, it was slightly impractical in a small space but we worried less about it than the new one is always covered in case it gets damaged - has only seen the light of day twice since we've had it.