to use a cushion

[stubbornhubby]

• my wife bought a new kitchen table and chairs
• I wasn't there - I was perfectly happy for her to choose them
• they are very nice
• but the chairs are a little bit low for the table
• so I sit on a cushion
• which drives her mad - especially if we have visitors

We can't really afford to replace them.

Should I

• quit with the cushion thing already
• don't mention it, but quietly keep on using it
• something else...

Are you my dh?

No, you can't be. He uses at least two cushions.

Use the cushions. Or saw a bit off the table legs so they fit properly.

Booster seat?

Then she'll shut up about the cushions

Doesn't she agree that the chairs are too low? Is she stubbornly refusing to solve the problem because she chose them?

I'd get some nice seat pads for all of the chairs.

She probably feels it is a silent criticism every time you do it, and feels stupid for not having checked it out. Why don't you choose some nice seat pads & tablecloth together to make it a positive instead of a negative?

I second trimming the legs!

I think you should trim the legs of the table without telling her! Then see if she notices something a bit odd the next time you sit down together.

Get cushion - dribble gravy on it or other unsightly stains. Let the family cat or dog snooze on it when you aren't sat there.

Any ideas she has of a stylistic enviable dining area will be ruined but you will be comfy though your behind will be covered in cat or dogs hairs.

Oops sorry - confusing your home with my abode.

I do hope you always get Your Cushion in a very pronounced manner, yet say absolutely nothing (that bit is veeeeery important) as you place it ostentatiously on the low chair

before every meal. Especially if you have visitors

Perhaps forgo the cushion and sit with your face just above the table and your elbows up in the air. It will piss her off even more!

hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

stubornhubby please come back.

I think....I love you

Upgrade to a whoopee cushion...and insist on using it until the issue is resolved...

@springheeledjack wow, ITILT :-) would you like to come round and try out my cushion?

I have thought about sawing off the legs..

but it's a very large, well finished 8-seater table (which extends to seat 10 or 12) in oak with very solid legs about 8-9 cm sq. Turn that on its side and attacking it with my saw to take 1cm of each...

No, I would make a complete mess...It would be like Just William when he got a fret-saw for christmans. I bet I would end up having to saw more and more of each leg to get it even...

I suppose I could get a man in to do it :-( how humliating would that be... for both of us.

could you fashion a raised platform to put your chair on to make it the correct height?

Or have four little square holes made in your dining room floor to sit the table legs in.

So you're only looking to take 1cm off each leg for it to be low enough... so do you really really need a cushion? I think the matching seat pads idea was great

lol @ thelunar

get her to agree to seat pads... then get your mother to make them

Could you not ask to borrow Surallan's box here it is

Calyx, you are right, it must need more than 1cm (this is exactly why I mustn't attempt this myself.

All - Seatpads - the chairs already padded, leather covered affairs , think dining more than kitchen, not suitable for seatpads or cushions , you idiot, stubbornhubby , so put the cushion away.

I do like the idea of four holes in the kitchen floor.

errr, put on weight so your big behind acts as a cushion?

It would be a long project...but does your wife regularly go out to a gym class or club on a weekly basis?

Could you sand a bit from each leg every week? gradually over time the height of the table would reduce with minimal mess and without your wife noticing?

I have a ds who insists on kneeling on the chairs at our table, this seems to raise him up a bit.

Does she manage without a cushion? Do you perhaps have a different torso:leg length ratio to her making it seem lower for you than her?

I can sympathise, I am short anyway, but I seem to have quite a short body compared to my legs so often have to sit on cushions. I had to have one when I learned to drive . It's either that or sit on my legs which is v bad for you (especially given that I am pg).

Could you not fashion something to add to the bottom of your chair legs?

Are you a person-of-restricted-growth?