![]() I bought an older style table on craigslist and also some fancy modern chairs. Now that I have forked out the bucks and they are sitting in my living/dining room I wonder if this look is really me? It changes the look of my home dramatically which is what I wanted. I was sick of the pseudo hippy oak table and chairs that I bought in the 70’s. It was more “little old lady with cats” and less little old lady with taste. Now I have a more elegant mahogany Duncan Phyfe dining table and modern black chairs. Even though I cobbled this dining arrangement together on the cheap, it is much more stylsih than the old table and chairs. I want my home to be the me I am now, not the me I was in 1979, but I think I’m having a hard time deciding who the new me is. ![]() When I saw the chairs on craigslist my heart gave a little pitter patter. They had beautiful curves and a simple design. I had been looking at chairs on line and the ones I was thinking about getting were more like kitchen chairs, painted a light soft green. These chairs were black and sexy, and much more formal. Although I do wear black occasionally, I’m not exactly formal or sexy. I like to be casual and comfortable. I want my home to feel warm and welcoming. Does this table say come on in and sit a spell? Will I want to sit here and eat my bowl of yogurt in the morning, or will I just walk by it admiring how fancy it looks? Can I live with it, not just stare at it? It does make me want to invite people over which is something I have let slide in the years I was caring for my Dad. I do want to do that again. I like the fact that the table can expand and that I now have enough chairs for ten people. I have invited some friends for Thanksgiving. I can imagine everyone sitting around this table. I see myself breaking bread with people I care about and entertaining in a way I haven’t done for a while. I think that is the best part of this dining furniture. In that sense it doesn’t matter how formal or informal it is if it makes me feel like having friends gather ‘round. Maybe I’ll even feel like treating just myself with an elegant dinner sometimes. I can hear the table telling me it's OK to experiment with a new image of myself and my home. Like the commercial for hair coloring says, “I’m worth it.”
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