You do not like the chairs you are showing? I think the curved backs look nice with the round table. I have Captains chairs at my half round table. Ony because I already had them. I long time ago gift from a friend. And they are so comfortable. I only have two of them that match and a third in my sewing room that has a different back.

My crazy half round table pulls out and has a drop leaf on the back side that is rectangle. This is one crazy table. I rarely pull it out.

A half-round table with a rectangular drop leaf? Poor table; it's geometrically confused! Actually, I bet it's similar to a kitchen island or peninsula that is longer with a rounded end. Those are very useful!

When you have a need to pull it out and show it off, please post photos. I love unique.

I like these chairs; they too are very comfortable. The wide, contoured seats and the wider slats on the back encourage one to sit back and relax.

I just thought they might look "odd" with the brass based table. They are part of the six chairs that came with my dining table. Do you think they work okay with it and that corner of the room? I'm all about function over form and using what I already have is a big plus. They are oak and my trim, door, floor is all various shades of oak.

The chairs will be the last worry for this end of the room. Right now I'm going to concentrate on the front door area.

Now I'm worried the red cabinet may make that side of the room look too crowded. I want useful, and I need something there as a landing pad, but I don't want to have too many pieces all scrunched up together.

Right now I'm playing musical chairs with a bookcase in that spot as a place holder. I'll post photos after while.

OH I see on the cabinet. I think it would be great but I am not in your space. I am well knows for cramming way too much stuff in my spaces.

As far as the chairs I think they are fine with the table even though it is a different wood. As you said earlier it is covered most of the time. Heck my captains chairs are painter WHITE with green tops on the back. Table is a pretty nice wood and table cloth is fabric. I will pull it out for you in awhile I need to walk to the post office. the way I have the dinning room now it is too narrow to keep the table set up with the drop leaf opened with out moving the table in front of the couch. And yes it is very much like the kitchen peninsulas with rounded ends. There is a gate leg that holds the drop leaf up. With out the little table in front of the couch I have turned the rectangle part towards the couch to use as a table with the rounded part seating of the captains chairs. It works. The couch is almost high enough. I did find another long couch cushion for the seat of the couch and I am sure it would be tall enough then to set up for a dinner setting. But I am not going to be doing that any time soon that I know of.

I love it! It gives you a T-Island! I see how the gate-leg works and shelves are worth their weight in gold. It is a most excellent table. Where did you find it? I think the white paint, green leather, and knotty pine (?) work wonderfully together, and the purple cloth is the icing on the cake.

My "big" table is 38" wide, so this has to be a very useable space for you.

I see you have a floor vent, too, so the table is high enough to allow good air flow? I know my desk would work over my vent, too; but the space is not wide enough. (Insert hair pulling, hand wringing, heavy weeping, and gnashing of teeth!)

This chair belonged to my husband's grandmother from around 1920. She had nine children and 10 of these chairs. After her death in the early 1960s, each child took one; the oldest got two. Wes' mother gave her chair to us. One of her brothers had stripped and stained hers and his; he stained the seats, backs, and stretchers a darker color and put a thick, shiny finish on them. I think it's grand with my little pine desk.

I will manage to work this into the living room. Somehow, someway! I "use" it nearly every day. I read here; I pay bills here. I "write" here!

your desk is darling. Turn it sideways like the red cabinet. Put a dowel or two on the back side of the books so they do not push all the way off the shelf and there you go where you wanted it to begin with. How many inches would it overlap the window if it were against the wall? I am not conventional and would not be bothered one bit if it were only a couple of inches.Then you could put it against the wall. I also have a small writing desk from a hotel in San Francisco. I use it as my sewing table. I had it by the true front door when we first moved here but needed it more in the sewing room.

Your desk and chair are adorable, Caroline. And I loved the story about the chairs. How fun that each child took one to make their own. And your table, Shades, is so unique. I have never seen one like it, but I love how versatile it is.

Caroline, I think your current chairs go just fine with the round table. And I like your lace tablecloth too. It dresses it up very nicely.

Murraysmom because my table is so unique is the reason I ended up with it. The previous owners could not find a place for it and I have to say it really is perfect for that spot. I had so many other settings there that did not work at all. And those little shelves are so perfect for the laptops. When we do have long term company I find myself sitting at that table with my laptop because the company usually takes my usual chair. Which is fine.

Caroline the floor vent is not used any more unless one of the ductless heaters/air goes out. Joe cut some of the fins out of it to try to stop the horrible jet plane take off sounds that come from the floor vents.. It did not work and now I will have to replace it with one of the vent covers hubby did not cut on as I see it looks pretty bad. There are a few under furniture that do not show. I so wish I could have the furnace removed but heater guy said it is best to leave it in place as we might need it if temps drop below 25 below zero. Glad you brought that vent to my attention as it really looks icky and I had become blind to it seeing it daily.

Oh Caroline! What a GORGEOUS table!! Tell hubby to keep his hands off it and do NOT polish the base! (Just dust it like you're doing.) The patina is what makes it so unique and beautiful! Did he actually sand the markings off the bottom of the table?? If you don't really care about its value down the road and are fine with just keeping it as your breakfast nook table, then no worries! I have some things like that--an antique tea table that I put casters on comes to mind, lol--but I needed to roll it around, not stare at it. :-)

So I'm saying if you like the looks of it better with a sanded top and polished bottom, go for it! (Even though you're breaking my heart, haha!) But if you like it as it was when you bought it, don't touch it. Its value has already been pretty much erased by the sanding and sealing.

And it's so BEAUTIFUL! I'm begging you not to cover it with a tablecloth! :-) OR...I'll send you my round wood table I got free from a friend who got it at Walmart, and you can send me yours!! :-)

Regardless, it is a lovely, beautiful table! Congratulations on a great find!!

Hi Caroline. Have you considered keeping an eye out for brass decorative pieces you could use as accents around your table? I'm thinking candlesticks, vases, lanterns, picture frames? Perhaps a print picture that picks up the brass color? I have those things in my home - not expensive items - just things acquired over time.

Chris, I think your table is cool. I've never seen anything like that. VERY practical, especially for small spaces !

Thanks Llucy. I did not even know it had the drop back when I first admired it in my friends shop. Then she showed me and I fell in love with it. They did not like it so traded two chairs for it. Both of us are really happy now.

Oh Debbie, you are such a hoot! I love your postings.

I've been busy all afternoon searching for, and taking photos of, "things" and ideas I have for the miniscule nook. Hopefully I'll get them all found before too long.

The table is a done deal. The photos posted above are 4-5 years old. He took the table apart, but we did not polish or change the metal finish. I gave the brass plated iron base a it a light wash, polished it with a dry cloth, and now use Swiffers to dust it. It looks just like it did except for the caked-on dust it came with.

As for the maple top - yes, the old glue, finish, stampings, everything, on the top, bottom, and 2" thick edges of the table were scraped and sanded smooth, cleaned, and sealed with some sort of wood finish. You can see in the fourth photo where the top had been damaged and messily "fixed" with mass quantities of glue. Wes scraped and sanded that, and now you can barely see where it was repaired.

In the first post on this thread, the very last photo showing the table in front of the old window (before the walls were painted and the nasty carpet ripped out) is the finished product and how the table looks today.

If you come to visit, I will remove the tablecloth(s) and you can dine in bare maple splendor, but until then it will be enhanced, embellished, accessorized, swaddled, covered, layered, and cozy under a plethora of vintage linens! :)