Furniture Follies

[serinde]

I'm having certain conflicts that are naturally attendant on moving from a five-bedroom house to a two-room apartment; most are resolvable in the "pitch it or store it" fashion, but some require a bit more dithering, and I'm not sure on the solution.

#1: Desk. Currently in the house is my grandma's old desk, which I'm excessively attached to. And that's fine; it's a perfect height for me to pay bills, do homework, etc., and it has many useful drawers; but the problem is, it is not a salubrious item for putting my computer on. Even if (when) I upgrade to an iMac, which will take up dramatically less room than my current beast, well, I will be sitting at it for several hours at a time most likely, and will not be able to use a good office chair with it. And it seems patently ridiculous to sacrifice space for two desks.

#2. Table. I haven't one. It needs to be of sufficient size to seat four for dinner (and be repurposed for sewing, playing a game, or what-have-you), and yet not clutter up the room. I do have a square, plain pine IKEA table, but it isn't nice-looking (even with a table cloth) and I'm not sure about the height. And, I just don't know where to put a table at all.

I'm sure other line items will occur (where do the bookshelves go?) but these are what's uppermost in my head at the moment.

Comments

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

The table does not fold down. It's a square top with a leg bolted to each corner.

[missionista.livejournal.com]

In that case, pitch it, sell it, or donate it, especially as you don't like the way it looks.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Depending on how much of the IKEA-nature the table has, it may be feasible to disassemble it into something more compact until such time as a more precise judgement can be made. (I can report that this is profitably doable with a BJÖRKUDDEN.)

OTOH, if you didn't like it anyway, then maybe not worth the effort.