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Glass top dining table with kids, good idea or not?

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misdee · 27/12/2004 19:56

Am trying to find a dining table, and have seen a nice one but is glass top. i am worried about getting it as i have a very boisterous 2year old.

I know mieow has one, but i am still unsure.

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misdee · 27/12/2004 22:11

Havent seen your ds standing on it mieow. tbh i;d have a heart attack if i saw him up there and try and lift him off. it would scare me!!

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Demented · 27/12/2004 22:18

I've got a fairly tradition diningroom set and the chairs are fabric (just the seat part) and they get really grotty, just had them cleaned a couple of months back and they are disgusting again. I wish I had got something wipeable.

GoodKingWestCountryLass · 27/12/2004 23:56

I've got a glass topped table. My table has a metal frame and the glass sits on top but there are rubber 'buffer' type things that siton the corners of the metal frame and stop the glass from slipping. So I am not concerned about the glass breaking as it is toughened and not resting directly on the metal frame BUT...!

Had I thought about it I would probably not ahve chosen the glass table as it is a nightmare to keep clean! My DS is 3 and my DD is 5.5 months. I am so not looking forward to weaning my DD and cleaning the gloop off the table again and if DS has friends round for tea it is quite some clean up campaign with spillages and hand prints and wotnot covering both sides of the glass and forget playdoy and painting...

whitepixmas · 28/12/2004 15:38

Demented, I too got sick of trying to clean fabric covered dining chairs, in the end they looked really crusty! I went to C&H Fabrics and bought some leather-look fabric. It only took about an hour with a screwdriver and a staple gun to recover them and they have looked great ever since. Trouble is we are now moving and the table and chairs will be too big!

I don't know about glass dining tables but we used to have a glass-topped coffee table when I was a kid. After it got broken for about the third time my Dad gave up and turned the tubular chrome frame into the fastest sledge ever!

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misdee · 28/12/2004 17:31

well i;ve been boring and safe and got the turin (??) one from argos. thought the kdis may trash it with painting etc, and decided a cheap one would be better for now. will get an expensive one when they reach teenage years

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Donbean · 28/12/2004 17:41

Thats the road that i have gone down too Misty. Cheap and cheerful Argos for now, good stuff in a few years when DS is bigger and older. Saves on so much stress and bother.

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misdee · 28/12/2004 17:42

well we just got a new bed which set me back £600, and am having kittens trying to stop the kids jumping on it.

dd1 says it not comfortable anyway, i dunno!!

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Demented · 28/12/2004 22:44

Good idea whitepixmas, I'll need to have a look at that, only problem is DH is a bit against changing them, a friend made my blinds for the kitchen and diningroom and there was fabric leftover and she suggested covering the chairs to match the blinds and DH was dead against it. I thought it was a good idea but glad we didn't because the fabric the blinds are made in is paler than the existing fabric of the chairs.

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