Our kitchen table

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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