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serindeSaturday, we embarked on the Quest for Dining Room Chairs.
Many chairs were sat upon, rocked back in, bounced up and down on, &c. And, just as with the Great Couch Hunt, it was determined that chairs comfy for me are not comfy for Steve (and vice versa). It was also determined that most dining room chairs are for looks, not several-hour gaming sessions, and the real solution is a bigger house with a gaming room and comfy chairs; but that is outside the scope of the current study.
We did find a few that we mutually liked the look and feel of. One was in a remainders thing where you have to buy the chairs, the table, and the fucking massive china cabinet that looks bigger than our dining room for a total sum of $14k. Another was $379 per chair...yeek (though I'm realizing that you get: comfy, nice-looking, cheap; pick 2). The third was a different case. The chairs were a little under $200, comfy, reasonably well-built...and a much lighter wood than the table we have. Of course, the whole set was on special, so it works out to the same price to get the chairs and the table as it would to just get the chairs. And it's kind of an attractive thought...if we hadn't gone through all kinds of nonsense to get the stupid table here from Buffalo in the first place! (Also, the wood trim in the dining room is very dark; darker than the current table, even. It might be a nifty contrast, or it might not. Argh.)
So, dilemma. I am not particularly inclined to spend over $2k on chairs which are going to be orphaned when the table eventually dies, or when we move to a different house (at which point we will probably get a dining set). But getting make-do chairs isn't a great option, either. I just don't know. Except that I'm utterly sick of the concatenation of random chairs, including some folding ones, we've currently got.
Tonight: going to see Big Fish.
Many chairs were sat upon, rocked back in, bounced up and down on, &c. And, just as with the Great Couch Hunt, it was determined that chairs comfy for me are not comfy for Steve (and vice versa). It was also determined that most dining room chairs are for looks, not several-hour gaming sessions, and the real solution is a bigger house with a gaming room and comfy chairs; but that is outside the scope of the current study.
We did find a few that we mutually liked the look and feel of. One was in a remainders thing where you have to buy the chairs, the table, and the fucking massive china cabinet that looks bigger than our dining room for a total sum of $14k. Another was $379 per chair...yeek (though I'm realizing that you get: comfy, nice-looking, cheap; pick 2). The third was a different case. The chairs were a little under $200, comfy, reasonably well-built...and a much lighter wood than the table we have. Of course, the whole set was on special, so it works out to the same price to get the chairs and the table as it would to just get the chairs. And it's kind of an attractive thought...if we hadn't gone through all kinds of nonsense to get the stupid table here from Buffalo in the first place! (Also, the wood trim in the dining room is very dark; darker than the current table, even. It might be a nifty contrast, or it might not. Argh.)
So, dilemma. I am not particularly inclined to spend over $2k on chairs which are going to be orphaned when the table eventually dies, or when we move to a different house (at which point we will probably get a dining set). But getting make-do chairs isn't a great option, either. I just don't know. Except that I'm utterly sick of the concatenation of random chairs, including some folding ones, we've currently got.
Tonight: going to see Big Fish.
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Date: 2004-02-02 09:31 pm (UTC)To be honest, I'd get the complete set we saw at the end, in Macy's. It looked good enough and both you and Steve thought they were comfortable enough.
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Date: 2004-02-02 09:58 pm (UTC)Downgrading
Date: 2004-02-02 10:11 pm (UTC)When I moved to New York I dropped back to about class 1.5. The difference shows. I feel like I'm living in a dump, in comparison. Of course some of that is to do with wooden floors vs fitted carpets (I've always had fitted carpets, except when at University), but it's also the crappy blinds on the windows, crappy furniture, crappy painting, crappy kitchen, just crap. My apartment depresses me at times, and I want to go back home to Elm Park.
*sigh*
Been there, done that ...
Date: 2004-02-03 08:08 pm (UTC)We went through this same exercise about 3 years ago, and ended up with chairs that did not match our table, for about $550 for a set of 6 chairs. They are wood, and look reasonably decent, but we bought them with the understanding they will be throwaways, once we redo the dining room.
But for now, they work OK, as we cover the table with a long tablecloth so you can't see the table anyway (its a pedestal, no legs to worry about). Not comfortable for all day gaming sessions though, just about right for long Thanksgiving dinners and such. We as a family spend little time in that room anyway, usually the table is covered with various crap (old newspapers, junk mail, stuff the kids bring home from school).