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SaraP
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Ours are 25 year old hand-me-downs and just not going to last very much longer.
Can anyone recommend durable, medium to dark wood ones that aren't too pricey?
Has anyone found that it is better to go the Ikea (or equivalent) 'disposable' chair route and accept that with 5 bigger-every-day kids knocking them over and tipping them back all day long nothing is going to last very long?
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Well, we bought a used set from my SIL that has metal chairs with a wooden seat. VERY heavy. The chairs are large, but the way they are made, you cannot tip in them. They will last forever.
However, they are big, the table is average sized, and we only just all fit around it, so we plan to move this table to the screened in porch when we replace it down the road. Have you considered benches? Our next table will likely be a long farm style table with benches running down each side. Much sturdier than chairs for a house of boys.
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I think about benches a lot. We have a very, very long, narrow dining room table -- a junk-shop owner around the corner from my mother knocks these farmhouse-style tables together using long planks and legs salvaged from old tables and sells them for $300 to the antiques gallery across the street, which sells them for $1500. We bought one right from the maker, so got the wholesale price . . . anyway, it's like a rustic refectory table, really too long for the room it's in but great when we have lots of company. I think our record seating at this table so far is 15, using every single chair and stool in the house.
We use old wooden school chairs in the kitchen, where we eat most of our meals, and they have been wonderfully sturdy, in a house with a garage full of broken old furniture. What I'd love now, though, is to find something better for the dining room, so that I don't have to pull in the school chairs every time company comes. Currently we have three inherited Queen Anne chairs, which are very sturdy and nice, plus a sort of Indonesian settee (also inherited, also sturdy and nice) which we pull up to the table for company, plus an ottoman which lives under the table a lot of the time, which I bought to park younger kids on when we have company. What I would *love* would be two long simple church-pew style benches, with backs -- because let's face it, it's hard to sit on a backless bench comfortably for very long, and we like to sit around the table -- for something like an affordable price. I think this would be much more practical than the odd assortment we have right now (we could keep the Queen Anne chairs for the ends), and it would be far more aesthetically pleasing, too.
Dream dream dream, right?? Anyway, piggybacking on this conversation in the hopes that somebody knows a good bench source!
Sally
PS: we don't eat that often in our dining room, but the table comes in for heavy daily use -- my 14-year-old and his schoolwork have taken up residence there, and my husband works at that table when he's at home, too. And it's where the mail lives. I keep wanting the dining room to be this beautiful, pristine space, but life says, "Not."
Anyway, we've broken so many, many chairs in our family life . . . even chairs that aren't supposed to be "disposable" tend to be that way in our house. This has become a huge pet peeve of my husband's -- nothing irritates him more than sitting down in a chair and having a leg fall off. (and it's pretty bad when the chair's leg falls off, too :) ). I really empathize with the search for the Indestructible Seating Solution.
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