New dining table!
As we’ve moved Sabriena and Duncan’s desk to make their previous “computer room” a dining room, our 4-person dining table looks decidedly silly sitting in the middle of such a large space, so we decided to start keeping an eye out for a larger table. I wanted something reminiscent of a viking long-house, 8, 10, or 12 seats. Sabriena wanted six. We compromised at six.
We opted to not go to the local furniture place, because while they’re incredibly nice and generally have our same taste in decorating for the most part, they’re also horrifically expensive and right before Christmas is not the time to make an impulse buy that’s several thousand bucks going straight on the credit card.
So we kept an eye on Facebook marketplace (regrettably, the only place that’s worth looking at), and narrowly missed out on a pretty nice 6-seater table for a hundred dollarbucks. Damn it.
But today, Sabriena found an 8-seater (hah!) wooden table and chairs that looked pretty nice, and wasn’t prohibitively expensive. The downside: it’s out in Warracknabeal, and the person listing it isn’t the person who owned it - the owner was a retiree who doesn’t use Facebook, so I had to make a phone call, and we arranged to drive out there.
It was very hot, and I hadn’t driven the trailer that far since we bought it (it does tip runs and local pickups and that’s it). I had flashbacks to a singing trailer wheel bearing bursting into flames when I was a kid.
We got out there and the seller was super nice, but they were downsizing from a converted shed, where the interior was built after the table was installed. We took a quick look and I thought the legs might come off, but it’s actually something of an antique and we agreed it probably wasn’t a good risk, so we would just manhandle the thing out. This was an exercise in and of itself, because it’s heavy. I can just lift the thing myself, and I risk injury doing it, so it was a multi-person operation to orient it through two doors and out the roller door onto the trailer.
Copious amounts of carpet and every ratchet strap I had and it was secure. Paid them the money, we grabbed some fuel at the Werrigar road house, and off we went, nervously keeping an eye on the trailer the entire way.
Getting it home we moved it through the garage and directly through the sliding door into the new dining area without much hassle, but with lots of exertion. Sabriena and Duncan cleaned the cobwebs off all of the chairs, and at least one of them is going to want re-gluing, which I’ll ask Dad for help with, but that’s a task for later. It also probably wants sanding down and re-varnishing, as it’s a bit pitted in places, and there’s what looks to be some minor cat damage on one of the legs, but it’s really quite a nice table. It’s also thick, the table top itself is like a three-inch butcher block construction.
Sabriena grudgingly agreed that an 8 seater table fills out the space perfectly. Victory!
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