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New dinning room table

10 years ago

WHoot!!1 It has not arrived yet. Some time this week when the seller will be making a trip up this way in her truck. So excited. Of course this means more house re-arranging but oh so worth it. It is vintage 1930's/ 1940's enamel top self storing leaves and an end drawer or center drawer I guess. I will put is where the half round table is now and put the half round table in the master where the little white table is. Give that table back to friend or?? Cause I am not sure where else to squeeze it in. If I ever do get company over for dinner and we all choose to eat at the table I can sit is up to the little couch for seating on one side and chairs on ends and other side. Just not sure where knees would go in center. Cost was very insanely low. This is a once in a life time find I could not pass up.

Half round table will work in master as it does in dinning room to hold the two old laptops in the shelf under table top and I can sit in my white chair already there so not all that much of a change. Just swapping tables for tables. Sending one away.

would you pass this little beauty up? It does need a tiny bit of repair by the drawer. I am sure I can fix it.

Comments (13)

  • 10 years ago

    That's really cute. If I could find a round one in blue and white, I'd be in like Flint. But I've never seen one like that.

  • 10 years ago

    Good find! Cute, useful, and versatile all around.

  • 10 years ago

    I've never seen one like that either. That is a wonderful find! Sounds like it will work perfectly for you!! Yay!

  • 10 years ago

    The little half round table has been moved to the master bedroom now. I am waiting to move more I might not have to and I really like it is it is. Hoping it can all stay. I took the back drop leaf off the half round table and it fits better against the wall now. It is wider side to side than the little white table but narrower front to back. All is good. I will just pass the little white table back to my friend. OR if she does not want it back it would make a great table for my tile saw in the shop/garage.

  • 10 years ago

    And it is gone right out from under me. The daughter to the seller said she really loved and wanted it and I am just not the kind of person to say I saw it first and then make a family mess of all of it. The lady offered me another table I am considering at half the cost making my consideration even more so to go for it. It is another vintage table in wood. Not the darling black and white enamel top. Course I could always paint that on it and put a glass sheet over all. I even have some large tempered glass sheets that might work. I forget their size. And tempered glass can not be cut to fit.

    The wood table is smaller than it looks It is 48 by 40 and would easily fit where the other half round table was. It is also on wheels and could be rolled over to the couch for one side seating. Four legs in the corner are an issue this way but not as much of an issue and the big center of the first table. I am really not expecting company for dinner. If it has not happened in the 8 1/2 years we have been here it is not likely to happen now.

    It would also make a nice work table for me behind the chairs and I could put the work table I am now using in the dinning room. It is only 27 inches wide. and the wider table would fit where the old work table is. Length on both is the same. No drawers on other wood table. Lots of thinking to do tonight on if I even want to do this. It can all go right back as it was and just forget it.

    Photo of the second choice table. She said ti is very sturdy just dusty from sitting out in the garage. I would clean it and paint it white.


  • 10 years ago

    That second table is nice, too. I'd take it BUT it sounds to me like it's 2nd choice and you are not "in love". "In like" maybe but will that be enough to make you forget the 1st one? If I had to guess I would guess that enamel top was not original to the legs. I've never seen that combination and I do love an enamel top table. I wish you weren't so far away! There are 2 of them about 23 miles from me. I go look at them periodically just to torture myself.

    It's probably a good thing we don't live closer! I bought a small cupboard to put my 3 ring binders in. Unfortunately they didn't all fit. But first..... move the too small white cupboard to make space for the filing cabinet. Put the new cupboard where the filing cabinet was. Move the too small white cupboard to the middle of the floor so I have scooting room for the other stuff I'm moving. The room looks better but I still don't have enough shelves for all the binders. I think I will keep looking.

    The "new" little cabinet was $20, with the worst green paint job you have ever seen. The cabinet quality was NOT worth $20 but it was the size I needed. It's hard to find one deep enough to put binders in and still be able to close the doors. And apparently I have still not found the right one. Two will not lay side by side in the open part and of course they won't stand up in there. I can stack 2.


  • 10 years ago

    I have a couple big three inch binders. I have to put them in the book shelf front to back because both spines front makes for poor shelf fellows and will not fit. I have found it difficult with binders and doors too.

    I do like the second table very much and even looked for one like it for many years. I was totally instantly in love with the black and white one. I also wondered if the top was a mate to the bottom as I have never seen such a cute bottom with the enamel top. Well my mosaic work table is also the enamel top and the hoosier has an enamel top on it so there is no shortage of enamel tops in the house.

    I am not even sure what this wood table is made of. Well wood of course and I am sure real wood but not thinking it is oak. It could be but guessing not. And I could turn it to the cute black and white design of the other darling table top just not be enamel.

  • 10 years ago

    Perhaps mahogany?

    My binders are FULL so they snuggle together just like books.

  • 10 years ago

    Maybe the second table is walnut? It looks like a bedroom set I used to have and it was walnut.

  • 10 years ago

    Might be here tomorrow. So hard to tell in the photo. I will probable still be guessing the wood unless it is oak and I do not think it is oak. Kind of hoping it is not oak. Although I do have a lot of oak in this house.


  • 10 years ago

    I love the white table! It's definetly a "married" piece, but it's just so darned cute. You're very kind to let the woman buy it back for her daughter.

    I like the second table, too, but I actually like the half-round table in the living room better! Of course, it's not my living room so... :)

  • 10 years ago

    Caroline I did put the half round table in the master bedroom and it actually is better back there than the table I had. I kind of need a bigger working table in the dinning room area. Funny since I moved my mosaic table into the living room I have used it more to do other work on than mosaic stuff. I might get rid of the love seat and move the dinning room couch into the living riim where the love seat is now. Then the dinning room table would actually be a table in the center of the room. Like every one else has. And at this point it has not even arrived yet so maybe the whole deal is going south. If it does I might try the little square white table with the two captains chairs where the half round table was before. I only pushed it to a corner in the bedroom. I did not want to hold the guy up delivering the table. Well might not be a worry now?? Who knows. If it was not meant to be then oh well.

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