How old is your dining set?

[Kartoush]

How old is your dining chair and table?

We bought ours 13 years ago. Not cheap but not extortionate. Solid wood. But it’s not very modern.

I still love the table, luckily we picked just plain furniture but we have the money to replace but dh is refusing as they are still in very good knick so he sees no point. God knows what varnish they used but beyond wiping down with a wet microfibre we do nothing else to maintain.

Chairs look similar to first image but I reupholstered myself 7 or so years ago. Material in 2nd image is basically what we have.

Just got watching an interior design instagramer who was just mentioned swapping in and out “pieces” on a regular basis. And I realised beyond cushions, flowers, small decorative items I don’t really do that despite having an interest in interiors and having the money to buy things. Seems a bit wasteful though.

Just wondering if others are a bit more playful with changing interiors.

I might paint but scared to mess up

14 years old and still going strong, still modern etc. no plans to replace it anytime soon

Chairs about 25 years. Table maybe 20 years it's secondhand. Over several house moves the first table was downgraded to a desk. They are Habitat/IKEA from the years when they were decent.

Ikea 2004, still going strong. We'll change it when we move eventually but no need at the moment. It's a 4 that extends to 8 can get 10 round at a push.

One set is Ercol Quaker from the 1950’s. The other is a farmhouse table, about 15 years old (made by a carpenter friend when he was training) and solid as a rock.

DMIL has Hepplewhite chairs from 17-something and a South African yellowwood table which belonged to DH’s great, great grandmother. Still going strong and beautiful!

I'm smiling at so many people enjoying their grandparents' pieces.

I bought an oak table 3 years ago and I know it'll outlive me, so have promised it to my teenager ☺️.

I agree with your husband, OP. My friend's sofa is more than 30 years old and her insurance paid for it to be reupholstered a few years ago amd it's the most beautiful and robust piece of furniture I've seen and she has no plans to get rid.

We overhauled our formal dining room two years ago with high gloss Italian furniture. After 35 years of mismatched wooden furniture it was a treat to have something really nice. We don’t use the room more than a couple of times a year, but it looks lovely. We eat in the kitchen usually on an ash table.

My table was made by a friend approx 1977. I say "my" table, technically I'm only looking after it, when said friend moved into a flat too small for the table, but we've long since lost touch. My ex, who was a carpenter, did some restoration approx 2000.

My chairs are vintage Ercol Quaker chairs, so could be 60s or 70s.

I think ours is from around 2006. My husband’s uncle bought it when he got divorced, and then we got it when he died a few years later.

Baumann Gondole chairs

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Vintage g plan Wilkins dining set here from the late 50s or early 60s
I bought it 20 years ago and love it
Still in great condition although I have reupholstered the seat cushions to match my decor

Loving all the posts about Ercol sets.

They are so stylish.

@TreeOfLives Not carved in and they can fall off.

Table is 1800s, sort of oak farmhouse, very small and circular. I don't have proper chairs for it as yet as it's in storage.

Sorry I can't get past 25 year old sofas 🤢

It's quite old.

It's rather like this one...

Just over a year old. I got a bonus from work and we'd been using my brother's old set that we'd taken 5+ years ago 'temporarily' so I wanted to buy a new set, especially as one end of the table was about to collapse. Ended up spending almost twice what we planned on an extending Bo Concept beech table but it was the only one we liked that was at all in budget and I'm very glad we got it.

It was surprisingly hard to find beech chairs in a style we liked and we ended up with some wackily patterned retro chairs from La Redoute which everyone loves. They're probably not going to last half as long as the table but we'll get fancier chairs later.

Now I just need another bonus so we can buy a new sofa!

I have a lovely large chunky oak table

My friend owned it and I told her I loved it and I'd buy it off her if she ever sold it.

Luckily her DH wanted something very modern so they sold it to me about 15 years ago along with the dining chairs

In the kitchen we have a smaller wooden table from JL that I bought around 17 years ago

I copied my parents who have the same one in their kitchen but a different colour wood

My kitchen chairs are solid wood and were given to me by a friend who was updating her kitchen

20 years, it's solid wood, chunky legs and I hate it, it's also broken a bit but I feel I can't get rid of it as the carbon footprint of it probably being made in Argentina and shipped here to then be replaced by another table in under a lifetime seems like a bad thing to do.

I don't see anything wrong with them. Stuff doesn't need to be modern, I just swapped my ikea furniture for old fashioned stuff before it's much lovelier :-)

Yes but you'd sell it on to someone who'll love it so hardly a carbon footprint issue

But it's broken. I could probably give it away for free I suppose. But then I have to face buying a new one and likelihood is I'll get something easier for the family from IKEA and that'll be all melamine and chipboard which is worse for the environment. So the guilt will be there and ruin the new table. I'll have nightmares of the old table turning up beauty and the beast style looking forlorn in the front garden about why I abandoned it. It's just not worth it. I'd rather live with the old table but hate it. At least I know where I am then.

@Putmeinsummer

You are funny

Find a lovely secondhand one you really love

To be fair one of my kitchen chair seats has split in half and I can't be bothered to fix it let alone replace it. We just don't use that one so I totally get where you're coming from

We just make do don't we

21 years old, from Ikea. Needs replacing but I won't until we redo the kitchen next year. It was a pretty cheap set and I'm impressed with how well it has lasted us to be honest!