Dining Table and Chairs for family

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Alikay, we looked at that one today, i think it was the one that Jack sat at and consequently knocked a wine glass to the floor. Oops, he did look quite shocked, as did we, we all profusely apologised to the store guy, offered to pay etc, but he had none of it. Seemed quite amused by our embarrassment and our 3yr old son bending down apologising and offering to help!

Spendless

For the chairs I'd look at sturdyness- not ones that they can drag around or sit on 3 legs on! With covers that can be wiped or put in the wash. mine are [STRIKE]suppossed to be [/STRIKE]cream :eek::eek:. Not even my stupidity in buying them, I was given them by my sister who has twins and a labrador. She soon got shut and passed them on!

For the table depending on your space/layout of house and if you have guests at any meal-times I'd possibly look at one that extends. Ours has been used smaller, whilst kids were little to give more space and jsut made bigger at times like Christmas or birthday parties. Only in the last week or so have we extended table permantly now there's not as many toys about - kids are 10 and 7. If you do go for an extended one, I'd look where the extended bit is folded underneath the table rather than has to come out and be stored somewhere. Unless you have loads of space!

danielle1977

I would go with the leather type one. I got a new table and chairs(faux leather) when mine were 2 and 4 from argos. It has lasted great, the chairs wipe clean, it always has one of those horrible plastic table cloths on but looks lovely when I take it off (when friends come round etc). I was a bit worried about having faux leather as my dog jumps on them and then on the table to look out the window when no one is home, but they have lasted through that! I had one of theose cheap white ikea high chairs when we first had it for the 2 year old, it raised him up to the right height. Finally-I use water and fiary to clean it but occasionally use leather shoe spray, it smells lovely and shines nice!

Becles

Noticed ours is on offer again at Homebase:
http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=20001&partNumber=677125&Trail=searchtext%3EHAMPTON

It's solid oak and very well made. The extending bit folds in to the middle and is stored underneath the table if that makes sense!

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Becles please can you repost teh link as your table isn't coming up, just an advert page.

Thanks

ali-t

I haven't ordered dining furniture from here but have ordered quite a lot of living room furniture in dark mango wood and the quality is fantastic. The prices are very reasonable and the furniture is very sturdy.
http://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/category/collections/?ec=2396737223&gclid=CN_Fkq-N4qMCFcH-2Aod6GevAw#affb1e3359209c5

doelani

Becles wrote: »

When we bought a new set, I got faux leather seat pads on the dining chairs. They're fantastic as any spills and dribbles wipe straight off and they look good as new!

I also bought an oil cloth from ebay rather than use a table cloth for every day meals. It's not as nice as a fabric cloth but again any spills just wipe off and it saves time repeatidly washing and ironing tableclothes Still have fabric tablecloths for when visitors come round to eat.

Lynn11 wrote: »

We have a extended table bought from Ikea and 4 chairs which are similar to version 1 of your pictures but we can take off the covers and wash these - needed for out toddlers. I would love a new table and chairs as we have recently moved house but do not see the point at the moment until daughter is grown up and we no disasters - its fine for mealtimes and painting/drawing times etc.

I woudl definetly say have a look in ikea, we have a 2 year old here 3 days a week and our ikea tabel and chairs holds up well. Looks good and if anything spilt on it wipes off easily.

The one bad point I foudn was the fabric seat covers, although tehy come off to wash pain in the backside as you need to unscrew the seats from frame BUT just an hour ago finsihed recovering in faux leater bought from dunelm, cost £10 for enough to cover 6 chairs pads . Will make life so much easier.

We also use platic table cloth which is great

Jo_R_2

We recently acquired a "proper" dining table and 6 chairs after years of having one of the fold-up tables and butterfly chairs - the whole lot was an accident waiting to happen with DS (18 months) crawling and walking about:eek:

The chairs we have are padded seats with a wooden back. I couldn't picture having polished wooden seats as I knew DD2 (aged 4) would spend most of her time sliding off during tea LOL:D We don't "do" leather in our house anyways so that wasn't an option. We are getting padded seat covers for our chairs however as they're extremely light coloured and one already has evidence of a choccy biccy on it:o

Also our table is extendable, and rounded rather than with corners - not a conscious decision re: the latter but in retrospect the most practical as DS's head seems to be attracted to anything with corners on at the mo!

I will say as an aside that we spent weeks and weeks looking for something suitable. Like you I was initially looking at brand new in places like Tesco/Asda/Argos/Wilkinsons, I moved on to investigate Ikea then started looking down the secondhand route. I'd highly recommend this actually - our table is solid wood, absolutely huge when extended and hardly used, the chairs are (almost!) immaculate. We ended up getting ours from Ebay for $100 (that's pounds - my pound key has gone awol!) and OH swears it must have cost a couple of grand new. There's some real bargains to be had -I think a dining table is a real investment in the home, so much goes on around ours I'm really pleased we kept on looking:)

Becles

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Becles please can you repost teh link as your table isn't coming up, just an advert page.

Thanks

Sorry about that

Try this:

http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=20001&partNumber=677125&c_3=3|cat_14418090|6+seat+dining+suites|21174280&c_2=2|cat_16849245|Dining+furniture|14418090&c_1=1|category_root|Furniture+and+Homewares|16849245

If not, do a search for Hampton Extending Dining Table with 6 chairs.

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I like that one its really nice, thanks for the link.