How old is your dining set?

Our dining table is 3 yrs old which we bought when we moved house.

However we now also have room for a table in the kitchen which is our old table. Acquired from my mother in 2007 which she purchased in 1999 from IKEA and still in excellent condition.

The table used to belong to my Gran
The chairs belonged to my parents
So both must be atleast over 50 years old & still going strong

Ours are some old Habitat Van Gogh chairs from about 2000, the rush seats are going but I want to remake them into padded seats. We have gone through several shapes/sizes of table in that time to suit different rooms, but currently have one of Ikea's more solid Norden birch block tables, it was secondhand to us so probably 20 years old. By good luck they look like a set. The problem is anything we changed them for would probably be worse quality or less useful.

We had our first table and chairs (from Marks and Spencer of all places), metal and glass with metal and upholstered chairs for about 20 years, then sold them and got our current table and chairs (modern white gloss) about 3 years ago. Not happy with the chairs as they scratch the floor so looking to sell and replace.

We had our sofas and armchairs for over 20 years too still managed to sell them as they were good quality in the first place.

Thank you @KateArnott, I can see why you love it. Clever joiner, too!

That is beautiful. Really lovely.

I’m not sure if anyone actually wants to see it, but here’s my dining table.

My table was made by a friend in the early 1980s. He made it for himself, then moved "temporarily" into a much smaller flat, and asked me to look after it for a while.

Every few years I'd ask him if he wanted it back, and the answer was always no, so I still have it and it's in daily use. It could do with a bit of renovation, but it's still perfectly functional.

My chairs are Ercol shaker chairs bought online for £100 for the four 10 or 12 years ago. God knows how old they actually are, but I just checked the price of new ones and they're £535 each!

Ours was inherited from DH's parents. It's at least 20-30 years old lol.

Thank you! I’ll attach a photo of them later on

Mines about 20 yrs old but I still love it so can't see me getting rid.

Swapping out furniture sounds wasteful unless you are just moving it around the house.
Closest I come is having a selection of throws and cushion covers I change when the mood takes me.

We have a large kitchen table that’s about 20 years old. No chairs, only benches and they are about 10 years old.

Really wasteful to swap stuff “just cause”. In 2025 I thought we’d moved on from that

Table from 2012, chairs from 2017 or 2018. Need to replace the chairs again because they are trashed, springs worn, drawn on and scratched to pieces from the cat. They are just so expensive though and I don't want to get cheap ones again.

That sounds wonderful, @KateArnott

Table came from IKEA in 2009, still in good condition and in daily use. Chairs were bought second hand at the same time and they've been reupholstered twice. No plans to change either at present.

Mine are antique pieces, but they had been repurposed by a joiner who I commissioned.

I have a drop leaf dining table and two benches they have a herringbone design with a border around them. They’re solid oak.

I love them! Even more so because the joiner made exactly what I envisioned! They’re old pieces, but new (less than two years old) in terms of design.

Must be about 30 to 34 years old but can't quite remember. I reckons it's got another 50 years in at least or maybe it's an antique of the future.

Four IKEA chairs and a Cotswold timber oak table. Bought about seven years ago. The table is a bit dated, it has a natural coloured top and white legs. But there’s nothing wraith it and I usually use an oilcloth table covering on it anyway.

34 years old.

We have a big pine kitchen table that my sons have used for homework since Covid. When I look carefully I can see impressions from their handwriting all over it- random snippets of sentences, in loopy schoolboy script. They use Surface Pros now so the table goes unscathed, but I know I'll never willingly part with it because it has their childhoods imprinted on it. I'm so glad they didn't put mats down under the paper.

I see mention of antique tables. DH great grandparents home was sold only a few years ago, it’s where he asked me to marry him. The table there was amazing you could sit 12 people round it and was dark oak with really huge heavy carved legs. When the house was sold all the furniture and belongings were shared out. All the furniture was amazing but absolutely huge, so we made do with an antique jug and a very big jar.

I like to keep our house up to date so think it's about 5yr old the one before was maybe about the same age. We've sold old furniture on market place so it's not going to waste. I imagine we will keep the current chairs but the table is laminated and starting to show sign of wear, might try and buy a solid wood top for the legs.

Capitalism needs us to 'swap out' perfectly good stuff. My table is 17 years old and I wasn't planning on ever buying another.

Table and chairs bought new in 1985 when we actually started to have a bit of disposable income after buying our first house, so 39 years. Before that we had a 50 year old second hand small farmhouse kitchen table which is still doing Stirling work as my craft table.