Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dining room tables

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

We got our two small square tables because some people had requested them
(with the aim of making conversation easier), but in fact they're not used
much. At the potluck dinners everyone gravitates to one or another of the
long tables, and at cooked meals where the cooks put out place settings and
usually include at least one small table, sometimes that table ends up
being empty. When we had a cadre of high school students, they liked to sit
together at a 4-top, but the current crop of younger kids prefer "their"
long table and evidently the adults do too.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:48 AM Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> You can also make "L" shapes, and pluses (+) and other odd arrangements to
> fit the space that create interesting conversational possibilities.
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:40 AM Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I like small square tables because you can break them up into
> > a more café like setting for the common house dining room. Long large
> > tables tend to make the dining room look like cafeterias.
> >
> > Our small square tables have a huge podium style “leg“ that Has to be
> > folded up and it is still very heavy.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > All tiipos ... curtesy of Siri  :-)
> >
> > > On Nov 20, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Many restaurants I go to now have smaller square tables that they pull
> > > together for larger groups.
> > > Would that not work?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:25 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
> > > cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>>> On Nov 19, 2019, at 12:33 AM, Linda Hobbet <coho [at] lindahobbet.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> We are researching tables for our dining room. I imagine have similar
> > >> criteria:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1) Collapse, stack, and/or fold-up so they take as little space as
> > >> possible when we want to use the dining room for something else, like
> > >> dancing, a performance, etc.
> > >>> 2) Easy to move around.
> > >>> 3) Well-made so they last a long time.
> > >>> 4) Affordable.
> > >>> 5) Healthy (glues and finishes, etc) and environmentally sustainable.
> > >>> 6) Good-looking.
> > >>>
> > >>> What is your community using and what are the pros and cons.
> > >>
> > >> This is the Jimmy Hoffa question of Cohousing. Anyone who can design a
> > >> table that meets all these needs would be famous! Think “Big Book
> Deal"
> > —
> > >> well, not exactly but big table orders. We’ve been looking for 15
> years.
> > >>
> > >> We have tables that are very nice and sturdy and fold up, but each one
> > >> weighs over 100 lbs and it takes two to safely fold them up and
> transfer
> > >> them to a rolling cart to clear the room.
> > >>
> > >> No one wants to use tablecloths in our open multi-use room. We
> wouldn’t
> > be
> > >> happy with less sturdy tables. They have to fold, although I must say
> > that
> > >> they have not been folded and cleared out for sometime. A lot of us
> just
> > >> got tired of moving them. Aluminum is the perfect solution but it’s
> > metal
> > >> and not cozy feeling.
> > >>
> > >> Let us know when you find them, or create them!
> > >>
> > >> Sharon
> > >> ——
> > >> Sharon Villines Washignton DC
> > >> Takoma Village Cohousing
> > >>
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