…I’ve danced on this one.
This week’s Friday Carnival topic is ‘a cherished item.’ I’ve had this table since I bought my first place at the tender age of 21 -ish. It was just a little terraced house, but it had a pretty spacious kitchen diner with plenty of room for this big lump of a table. A friend of my brothers worked in a carpentry shop and he spent hours applying coats of wax to it, so it would be in pristine condition for me.
I think it cost me about ÂŁ200 for the table and 4 chairs which was quite a lot of money, but it has turned out to be a sound investment as we’re still using it 17 years later.
I have danced on this table in my pre-baby days when it was ‘everybody back to mine’ after we’d been out to the wee small hours…. I’ve had boozy dinners around this table when we all drank far too much…. I may even have been *ahem* slightly quite inappropriate on top of this table.
The table migrated with me to London from Northern Ireland and then down to the South Coast. It has survived a 3 year temporary garage habitat when we just didn’t have room for it. It even briefly made an appearance as a workshop bench in my warehouse.
Now we’ve moved and have the perfect space for it again. I’ve sanded it and rewaxed the top and painted the legs white to bring it a bit more up to date. We’ve replaced the original country chairs with some modern white ones for the grown-ups and a bench for the littl’uns, who remind me of the Bisto kids when they eat their breakfast at it.
I love this table.
Here are the other entries in this carnival:
Making It Up gives us her favourite cherished items.
The Diary of a Frugal Family shares her family’s most Special Things.
Scribbling Mum tells us about her photo wall.
Make Do Mum writes about a precious item in Tick tock tick tock.
Red Ted Art tells us about her DIY Hobby Horse.
Snipsnaphappy tells us about her cherished item in My Granny’s needle.
I Need Curtains for the Window inside my Head writes about the pieces of jewellery that mean the most to her.
Tiddlyompompom tells us about Adopted Ted.
Freckles Family shares A treasured possession.
Mymumdom posts about A Small Boy’s Treasure.
Notes From Home posts about her cherished reclaimed box.
I love your table…however, don’t think I am going to look at in quite the same light now!! ;o)
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Haha, that table has seen some action (in more ways than one) and a great investment too
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Ah, look at those two! They look like they love that table & each other as much as you do.
LOL-TMI! I’d love a forever table- must hunt one down.
I love the idea that a kitchen table stays with you for a lifetime. My OH keeps harping on about getting a new one and I’m fighting back, it’s barely a teenager. Oh, the exciting things that we all used to do on our kitchen tables back in the day….
It almost makes me blush. But not quite, it reminds me that I used to do things that were a bit more risque…
I love seeing them at the table together they really make me smile.
I never imagined I would have it for this long, but now I can’t bear to part with it…
tee hee.
Yes, like Jacq said, a forever table – perfect – and what a fantastic story making up its history. I want a table like that! x
*snigger* nice work
LOL! That table has had many uses
I’d love a table like that, I really don’t like mine. lol at the inappropriate action