Our kitchen table

Sounds ideal, kitty, I'd settle for a kitchen big enough for a table .

Breakfast bar in the kitchen, usually covered with stuff, (toaster, unpaid bills, newspapers etc.) Our dining room table, though, is rather splendid, vintage G Plan which extends to seat 8, (we have had ten round it but some were children,). It is very scratched but I have a chenille cloth on it. I bought it at an auction years ago. It was £7 and came with four chairs which I am about to put on eBay as 'restoration project'. I brought the whole lot home in a small car with the table upside down on the roof rack. I momentarily forgot and drove into the garage, knocking two legs off it. When we got it indoors DH glued them back on, well have to disconnect when we need to take it out again as it won't go through the doors.

We didn't buy gplan when we were young but our dining room is an 'homage' to that era now.

We have an extending Danish teak table which we can get 12 round if they breathe in! The scratches are really easy to get rid of ruby - it's one of dh's jobs now he has retired!

Ours was a 'bargain' off ebay. We spent a whole day driving to the vendor's house, in the back of beyond, 2 departments away.
It's oblong solid oak now covered with a pretty floral oilcloth.
Visitors gravitate to it, it's in our small kitchen/diner.

Our dining room table is a solid mahogany drop leaf one. We bought it because it was such a good neat size and such a clever design -no one gets a leg!
However, it still thrills me to think, as we sit at breakfast , that people sat there 200 years ago. We hadn't realised that it was Georgian when we bought it for a song. Back then everyone wanted modern stuff luckily for us.

In one house we had a six foot pine table in the kitchen where everyone congregated and we ate most meals there - and the dining room for when we had too many people. Once we moved house the kitchen table we used for the computer and the dining table was then in the kitchen/diner we had. I found the table there was not such a congregation point because the kitchen design had a barrier of cupboards but we did eat there. We have a similar arrangement in this house with a kitchen diner - the table will seat eight to ten as it is and up to fourteen if I put the extensions in. It is a lovely artisan made oak table but now I find it difficult to move - it is so heavy.

Ours is a plain old pine extending table its fine in our kitchen if a little big but OH and I eat sitting there all the time its scratched to pieces but thats because all the grandchildren have used to do 'stuff' and eat at Nanny and Grandads house for years I don't bother with a cloth unless we are having someone come over for a meal. If its extended it will seat 8 but its a real squash and then I can't get round it to serve things... despite all that I love it and all its happy memories.

Now we have downsized we no longer have a kitchen table, just a good sized breakfast bar. The dining table is my MiL's old Ercol one which I have painted in Old Cream chalk paint and cover with an olive green patterned PVC cloth for everyday use. When extended we can get eight/nine people round it.

Laminate flooring makes it so easy to shove furniture around to make room for extra chairs etc.

Ercol furniture is so well made - I have seen quite a bit of it back in the shops again now - the wood was always so beautiful and the way they made those sunken type knobs in the drawer fronts!

I love Ercol. Very well made still in Uk ( although some of the Ercol "designs" in John Lewis are made in China so beware) I have a 50 year old Ercol coffee table which is lovely. My dining table is Danish made in 1968 and lovely teak with an extending section in the middle. I bought it a couple of years ago at a mid century modern furniture fair. I do keep it covered in a protector and pvc cloth, but I show it off when we have friends for dinner.

I have a little Ercol saddle stool I bought in a boot sale! Must be rare as I can't find an original anywhere online.

And a medium sized light extending table, no label. which I rescued from rough treatment at the crowded women's refuge where I was working at the time. It was broken. (Gave them a bigger stronger one.) I have had it for over twenty years and my sister has just told me it 's mahogany. I love it.

In the kitchen at the moment, I have an oblong glass topped table, bought in a sale and replacing a round formica top table. It is really too big, but fits at the end of our kitchen. The old table is in the loft as I might get fed up with the present one and resurrect it. Our dining room table, chairs and sideboard are G-Plan, bought from The Ideal Home exhibtion in 1961, and still going strong. Couldn't part with them.

We had, for many years, a Mackintosh teak extending dining table and chairs in our dining kitchen, which we both loved. Good solid wood. After years of good service, and having survived the ravages of a growing family, the chairs started to become a bit 'unstable', so we decided to give the table to a charity shop, throw the chairs away, and replace it with a new suite, which is lovely, but I miss the Mackintosh. Being round, it was slightly impractical in a small space but we worried less about it than the new one is always covered in case it gets damaged - has only seen the light of day twice since we've had it.

We also had Mackintosh but ours was rectangular. We had the lovely sideboard as well. We passed them on to a friend of S when they first got a house so we had it for many years. We have mahogany now rather ornate and if I were younger I would replace it with solid oak. We got our Mackintosh from Hopewell's in Nottingham a wonderful shop.

Table in the kitchen cost me a tenner, formica top, two drop leaves, slim design to put away if needed. I love it though as I can get away with doing all my craft on it and it still cleans up, and I clip the dog on it as well as use it for wallpapering on. Plus it has seen a few Christmas dinners on it too.

Table in the living room, circular one, in cream wrought iron fancywork. Positioned under the window so I can sit and watch the world go by while having my morning cuppa. Cost me about £60.00. I wouldn't dream of paying any more as the ones I have do the job I need them for and look great. I wouldn't pay near a thousand pound for a table. I couldn't afford to but even if I could, I wouldn't.

I wouldn't either. Most of my furniture is second-hand, charity shop or - a few pieces - from my father.
What is new is four plain flatpack bookcases for many books, and this computer stand. Oh, and my bed was new. (Now need a divan type as it is getting very difficult to make.)

Another Mackintosh fan here. When himself got a tax refund it was spent on the table, rectangular with 2 folding[ inside] leaves, can seat 14 fully extended. It used to be in the kitchen where all squashed round, now it has its own room. Sadly the chimney in that room collapsed and the fireplace is solely decoration.

Been used well and still as good as original. Chairs are what we accumulated over the years.

My original Mackintosh dining set was passed on to DD when she had her first house. When Mum died her Mackintosh table and chairs went to a DGD but her wall unit fitted into my dining-room. 70's teak and looks a bit dated but sturdy and providing lots of storage.
My pine kitchen table became a 'computer desk' while the chairs are in DD's kitchen.
Current kitchen table is small and square and is used mostly by the DGC's.
I'm all for furniture being passed around the family according to need and space!

Surprising how Mackintosh, Ercol and Parker Knoll all stand the test of time. Friends of ours still have the Ercol dining suite they bought when they moved into their first house forty odd years ago - a table, six chairs, a sideboard and a matching display cabinet. She has reupholstered the dining chairs a few times, but it is still handsome, well crafted, serviceable furniture and doesn't really look all that dated (and who cares anyway).

We don`t have a table, the room is far too small. Until we moved here, we`d always had a large (to start with) square solid oak table with really thick, carved legs, but the rooms in this house are too small.

I come from a large family and our kitchen table doubled as a table tennis table

Ercol and G plan is very fashionably retro these days - have a look on eBay. Lots of people don't want " new" furniture that is mass produced in China or Romania, they'd rather have something made in UK that will stand the test of time.

DH is sitting at our 1958 ( inhearited) Ercol dining table playing with Mechano! Shall I go upstairs and get him some short trousers and long fawn socks!