How old is your dining set?

Late 1980s Habitat table and chairs, still going strong

Ours was given second hand to DH by a friend of his parents about 30 years ago I don't know how old it is but I would say 60s or 70s it came with chairs but they broke and were replaced by my parents old chairs when they got some new ones. We have recovered the seats a few times.
I am really happy with my table and chairs and wouldn't replace them unless they broke.

Ours is about a year old. We had it made to fit in our kitchen/diner. It’s got banquette seating with storage and a bench. Like this, this is a display model.

1970's G Plan table and chairs bought at the time from John Lewis in their sale, since bought secondhand G Plan sideboard and cabinets to go with it. DIL says she wants first dibs if we ever get rid or die!

@MaMisled Your post brings to mind the reaction of a lady who bought my kids' play table and chairs. We'd got it at least second hand, and it was a lovely solid set - real solid wood, with the table legs painted in bright colours, as were the seat and back of the chairs. We used it for everything crafty, arty, mucky, adding a few dents and scrapes to the ones already there. I'd cleaned it up as best I could to make it a bit more presentable to sale, but it was still very evidently well used and sporting multiple coloured paint and pen marks, glue and the odd bit of un-removeable glitter. When the lady came to collect it and saw it, she was clearly emotional and commented that it was perfect, beautiful, and "a real companion".

I want all my furniture to be 'companion furniture'.

We have a teak table and 6 chairs which we bought in Heal’s sale 50 years ago. We have had the chairs re-upholstered. The table extends and, as newly weds, friends asked why we needed a table that would seat 14 people. I love it when all the family sit round it. It cost £140 (with a sideboard) and we had to phone my mother and ask her to lend us the money to buy it!

Our chairs were made about 20 years ago, using very antique oak for the backs. They needed reupholstering when we got them and they now sport lovely wool seat pads. They didn't particularly go with the table we had (a sentimental value family hand-me-down). It took us a couple of years to happen across an Ercol table in great condition that goes well with them, and we're now storing the sentimental one (still in great useable condition, probably due back into fashion in a decade or so) for when our kids might need it. I can't imagine we will change our dining set again, until we're old and infirm and the chairs are too heavy for us to move.

I'm loving how many posts here mention furniture handed on through families or which have been bought preloved.

Ours is about 16-17 years old and going strong. Nothing compared to some on here though!

If they are solid and in good knick don't replace them, you won't get the same quality for the same price and will regret it

We swapped our glass Caligaris table for Ercol around 6-7 years ago and it's staying. It's now a permanent fixture (unless I win the lottery and can afford Ercol Windsor).

About 20 years. Recovered the cushion bit a few years ago/put in new foam. No plans to change it.

About 18 years old - came from Habitat.

I've sanded and reoiled the table and chairs and reupholstered the chair seats since. I think about changing it but it's such a work horse and takes such a bashing that it would upset me if it were a new one going through that. It's basically a dining table.

My dining set is 14 years old. Bought at the then Co op department store.

My parents have a 43 year old G Plan dining set. They had the slats on the chair backs reinforced and changed the fabric on the seats as was so early 80s. They can’t remember the last time the table was extended

34 years old. It’s the only dining set we’ve ever had.

6 Multicoloured Jacobsen chairs (the Christine Keeler ones) bought by my mum in 1972.

Fun fact, the chair Christine Keeler was famously photographed on was actually a cheap knock off of the 3107 chair.

Daily use of a basic (ie not antique/quality of any sort) set from the early 1970s here. I’d like to sand all the old varnish off one day and recover the seats etc.

We bought a solid oak table and 4 chairs from Asda living several years ago - maybe 8 or 9 years ago now - and apart from putting a table cloth over it we've done nothing to it. I hope it lasts and lasts because it was expensive!

Nearly 40 years old. It's solid mahogany and beautiful so we'll never change it!

Mine is 50 years old, given to me when a family member replaced it 30 years ago. I can't part with it because my late father sat at it many times, my children played at it and under it in dens and in it when it was turned upside down to make a boat. Its ingrained with 50 fabulous Christmases, hundreds of birthdays, happy meals, important conversations, homework, craftwork, work work. Puppies have chewed the legs, cats have scratched them. That table and chairs has seen so much joy, pain and spillages.

Ercol chairs. Belonged to DH's granny (he's still annoyed with himself for ditching the matching table) plus a table FIL made.
Furniture only gets changed around here if it's broken!

50 ish years. DH inherited it from his grandmother. Needs some TLC which we’ll probably get to in the next couple of years…you know, because one chair is a death trap now so it’s getting urgent 😂

Sterling effort! I’m firmly in the one generation buys and the next re-upholsters camp.

The dining set in my home belonged to my parents, it is 60+ years old
Table
Chairs
Side board cupboard
It is still going strong !

Inherited
dinning table from about 1775 chairs 1735 ish
Worth surprisingly little but made to last

My current one is three years old. My last one wouldn't fit in this house - and the table was 8 years old when I sold it but the chairs were from the 1940s, though I only had them for 8 years.