Dining in the Round: My New Table
I had a busy weekend, mostly stimulating the economy of the furniture industry. Our big purchase was something I'd been casually looking for for a while: an expandable round dining room table. I am so excited that I'm still a little jittery.
There aren't many tables like this one out there - it starts as a round table that seats four, but expands via a bunch of hinges, becoming a round table that seats eight to ten. It's solid teak and made by the Danish company Dyrlund. As far as we can tell, it was probably made in the late 1960's. And there are only a few out there.
So, now that I have my awesome round dining table, I'm trying to figure out how best to rearrange my dining room to make the most of the table shape. We've actually put the table in our former living room, which is right as you walk in the house, and moved our old living room furniture to create a loungey spot in the old dining room, which is open to the kitchen.
Here are a couple of pictures of our new dining space, along with some round tables I love. Any ideas for decor, rugs, arrangement, or table-setting would be greatly appreciated!
There aren't many tables like this one out there - it starts as a round table that seats four, but expands via a bunch of hinges, becoming a round table that seats eight to ten. It's solid teak and made by the Danish company Dyrlund. As far as we can tell, it was probably made in the late 1960's. And there are only a few out there.
So, now that I have my awesome round dining table, I'm trying to figure out how best to rearrange my dining room to make the most of the table shape. We've actually put the table in our former living room, which is right as you walk in the house, and moved our old living room furniture to create a loungey spot in the old dining room, which is open to the kitchen.
Here are a couple of pictures of our new dining space, along with some round tables I love. Any ideas for decor, rugs, arrangement, or table-setting would be greatly appreciated!
Here's the table, expanded to seat eight to ten. It's in a fairly traditional-looking space - lots of old art on the walls (mostly old school family photos and seafood-related pictures) and newer family photos on the mantle. My poor old living room rug is obviously too small for the expanded table, but I don't want to rush out to buy something new without thinking it through. You can just see one of our dining room chairs at the back left. They're simple - brown/black leather Hendriksdal chairs from IKEA. Nothing fancy, but they work with the table and they're comfortable.
I like this mix of chair and bench and wonder if I could pull this off at home - and how hard it would be to find a curved bench.
Q