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

We have an ikea table bought about 20 years ago as the children kept nudging the legs of the gates table that was my Nanna's. We have a mixture of chairs some from the 1940s some from the 50s and 2 ikea ones which are the least comfortable of all.
I have thought about changing the chairs, but I like the old ones. They were made to last.

I've also got a Gplan cupboard and shelf unit. It was given to us by one of my husband's work colleagues in 1985, when he was clearing his deceased Mum's house. Don't know how old it is, but it's still in great condition.

The chairs are more than 20 years old, like most of our furniture and indeed some of our clothes!
Bought the table secondhand when we moved house and the old table (also secondhand) was too big for the room.

Ours is less than 5 years old.

Our previous set we had 20 odd years and it was inherited so already 20 years old when we had it.

I don't change out furniture, I like mine as is but I seasonally decorate my table and fireplaces.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

34 years old.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That sounds wonderful, @KateArnott

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

That is beautiful. Really lovely.

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