Posted: 10/24/2012 3:23:42 AM EDT
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A catalog I am looking through had an 8 foot table for about $1.8K. A house we are fixing to sell had a simpler one but still about the same size. When we cleared out Mom's house, a brother of mine got the dining room table.
Seeing them in catalogs or pictures of other parts of the family sitting at them (the one in the house about to be sold) makes me yearn for how nice it would be to have one........or would it? It seems if one lives alone, they never actually use one. What I have right now is a folding leg table, okay for eating on, but can be folded up against the wall to take it out of the way.....if things work perfectly. Right now, it's more of a place to store things on, so I eat elsewhere. So, do single people do without dining room tables? _______________________________________________________________ ("Major, a dinner jacket?"––Bellows "Um, yes, Sir, it makes the food taste better."––Nelson, (w,stte), "I dream of Jeannie") |
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I have a 6' table with a leaf that I can add to make it a little over 8'
I picked up the table (solid wood) and 6 chairs at a yard sale for $75 cats like to meow, and dogs bark 
don't go without a table and chairs, because you never know when you might decide to have a couple of people over for dinner. |
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The 4 of us will sit around that table in our high back, black "leather" desk chairs.......what my comrades called the "Evil Genius" chair. Ie, 
I inherited my father's desk chair, bought a $150-200 one for a training conference (and the next month they went on sale), and have another one that was suppose to go into an academic office that never came about so it is still in its box. They are cheap enough, I sort of now have the room, I ought to buy the forth..............just in case of that dinner. Actually, years ago, I tried to entertain a date at my place. I got out the lace table cloth.......and my cat at the time took one look at that hanging off the table and said, "Oh, BOY!" as she swung up a clawed paw to make off with it. So much for my attempt of giving formal dinners. ________________________________________________________________________________________ ("You think she intends to do me harm?"––1st Roman "I'd take my own wine if I were you."––2nd Roman, (w,stte), "I, Cladius") |
This is what you need, for whatever you plan on using it for. Luckily I can make you one! www.RusticRefinery.com
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This is what you need, for whatever you plan on using it for. Luckily I can make you one! www.RusticRefinery.com https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f4d652e5e099700030001fe/large_DSC_0384a.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f4d69a95e09970003000235/large_DSC_0372a.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f4d65a85e0997000300021a/large_DSC_0380a.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f5100aa1fb2fa000300000f/large_DSC_0099a.jpg Favorite kind of furniture right here. However single and small house means I have no space. I just eat in my living room when I am alone. Or at the small table if 1 other person is with me. More than one other person we use the coffee table in the living room. |
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I'm single, and I make a concerted effort to use my dining room table for dining. Yeah, some things pile up on occasion, but with a little bit of effort, it's really not a big deal to keep it neat. It helps that my 'dining room' is just an extension of my 'living room,' so I can watch TV while eating at my 'dining room' table. |
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maybe I'm strange, but even when my son is not with me, I still eat at my dining room table, forever... alone  Even as a bachelor, I always set the table and sat down their to eat. +1 Just because you are single there's no reason to be a savage. Heck, my wife and I try to break out the fine china and crystal once a week and it is just us two. |
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This is what you need, for whatever you plan on using it for. Luckily I can make you one! www.RusticRefinery.com https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f4d652e5e099700030001fe/large_DSC_0384a.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f4d69a95e09970003000235/large_DSC_0372a.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f4d65a85e0997000300021a/large_DSC_0380a.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/RusticRefinery/image/upload/4f5100aa1fb2fa000300000f/large_DSC_0099a.jpg Favorite kind of furniture right here. However single and small house means I have no space. I just eat in my living room when I am alone. Or at the small table if 1 other person is with me. More than one other person we use the coffee table in the living room. Rustic is the fucking best furniture type. My dining room set (table and buffet) are all rustic. The owner of the store we bought it from told us if you get a scratch just fill it in with a black sharpie and wipe away the excess immediately. Looks like all the other distressed bits. Best style ever for actual use. |
| Every home should have a nice place to eat. Even if it is not used often there should be a place where you, your friends and family can sit down and eat like civilized people. Apartment dwelling does not usually lend itself to that but if you are an adult with a home, you should have a table. |
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A catalog I am looking through had an 8 foot table for about $1.8K. A house we are fixing to sell had a simpler one but still about the same size. When we cleared out Mom's house, a brother of mine got the dining room table. Seeing them in catalogs or pictures of other parts of the family sitting at them (the one in the house about to be sold) makes me yearn for how nice it would be to have one........or would it? It seems if one lives alone, they never actually use one. What I have right now is a folding leg table, okay for eating on, but can be folded up against the wall to take it out of the way.....if things work perfectly. Right now, it's more of a place to store things on, so I eat elsewhere. So, do single people do without dining room tables? _______________________________________________________________ ("Major, a dinner jacket?"––Bellows "Um, yes, Sir, it makes the food taste better."––Nelson, (w,stte), "I dream of Jeannie") Some do, some don't. My best friend is single with a well-situated dining room table and uses it for both dining and work. We spend most of our time there when I visit, which I am going to do today. I just now noticed your user info. Strange that you and I will be in the same state (of the Union, not mental) in just a few hours. |
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When you say "dining room" table that makes me think of a somewhat separate eating area from the normal eating area.
We have four barstools and a counter that we nromally eat at, we use our dining room table a couple of times a year. When we have company it is usaully during nicer weather, and we are out on the deck. for the record as far as I am concerned dining room tables are a waste of money, but I was overruled. |
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I was watching part of "Gun Shy" today and there, the hero, had his little bar sitting on the end of what looked like his dining room table in his NYC suite. As that it looked like, in the movie, it was more of an expensive hotel suite than a penthouse, it might just be than room service kept him supplied with a platter of the alcohol he ordered.
I have been in some fancy hotel suites. My parents had one at a cousin's wedding (it was a wonderful luck of the draw situation) where there was a foyer with the bedroom on one side and a fantastic living room and dining room table on the other. TALK ABOUT RICH! (the hotel messed up some of the guests rooms' reservations, offered us two other rooms. Mom and Dad took the first room which was pretty nice and then they showed me my room, THAT SUITE, and I looked around and then got on the phone to Mom....,"We have to switch rooms.") Oh, if one could live like they do in a hotel. Of course, part of the big catch is the kitchen downstairs that cooks the meal, the waiters who bring it to you, who take back the dirty dishes to the sink downstairs that cleans.....and the maid that comes in afterwards. I suppose when I build my house, it will have a dining room. Tier IIA safehouse concerns aside, it seems only proper.....just in case in one's seculsion, unexpected guests stop by. 
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Built our house without a "formal" dining room.
Our dining room and table is off the kitchen. Kinda like a breakfast area but a little larger. The table, a hand me down from her grandma will open up to seat about 12. Have no need for a dining room. I work nights, oldest kids are never there for supper. I usually eat in the LR or while surfing ARFCOM If we have company over for Thanksgiving or Christmas we just make do with what we have. Open up the table, set up some card tables, etc..... |
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I think an impressive dining room and table is a good thing to have if you frequently entertain, have large amounts of family over on holidays, such as that. Other than that it's a waste of space.
My grandparents had a smallish dining room but a beautiful oak table. Every Sunday dinner or holiday, pulling it out to insert the leaves, the good linen, setting the table. I've never worked in a restaraunt but I do know how to properly set a table for a dozen people or so. |
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We-ll, if Tier IIA safehouse considerations are brought into it, the situation rather changes though not necessarily for the better.
That is, where a Tier III is an unpowered supply pillbox and a Tier I is a command bunker, a Tier II is half way inbetween and an A is a private residence use as one. So for the subject at hand, in a IIA, it's not designed to be able to do minor surgery, but if one does need to do that, they can use the table that one butchers the deer on.....or the dining room table. Ie, like the latter part of "Ronin". Am I thinking of building a Tier IIA house? No but I am thinking of building a house on a ranch with safehouse considerations in mind. For example, down in the meadow, I'm thinking that would be a wonderful place to build a SMALL little play (opera) house with a stage. If I have a structure there, it would also be a place to have a Tier III where, if I broke a leg or took a snake bit, I could make for that shelter to send out a signal for people to come help me. But back to the table. If I am not eating on it and I'm not doing open heart surgery, it still might be used for maps or going over blueprints or as a secondary to open manuals or taking something unknown apart in step by step exploded manner. ______________________________________________________________________________ ("Well, they have solved problems with their backup systems, and further problems with their back up, back up systems, but we have to get them down before they run out of resources."––Controller, (w,stte), "Apollo 13") |