Dining tables?!

[mrsnegative]

Umming and aahing whether or not to have a fourth DC in the next couple of years.

DC are 5, 2 and 9 months.

Currently we have a table and four chairs (plus highchair) in our rather small kitchen and we wouldn't have room for another chair or a bigger table. We're renting so can't extend or anything. Don't want to move as apart from this the house is perfect!

In theory there is a dining room but we use it as a much needed playroom/second living room and wouldn't want to change this. Also have a utility off the kitchen.

Soooo what to do? Thought of getting a kids' table and chair set for the kitchen but it would be a pain getting it out and putting it away 2/3 times a day... Also this wouldn't work as they got older?

Any ideas? :)

Yep! We have children's chairs from ikea. Narrower than high chairs and can sit two in one side. That might help?

www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50207036/

Thank you! Good to know :)

Xx

You can use benches instead of chairs, that way the children could squeeze up a bit.

We have these instead of highchairs from as soon as they can sit properly in a chair

Thanks, never thought of a bench! (Mrs negative here!)

Shosha, those chairs look good too! Do you fit 3 next to each other then?

A friend of mine has 6 young dc and quite a small kitchen table. They have two benches running along two sides and some chairs. Works surprisingly well

Ooh I'm excited now, thanks TS!

we have benches alongside the table - you can fit more children in that way.

So do all the plates fit all along the table?

Or are people constantly bumping elbows