Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Tables and Chairs

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Tim Clark wrote:

> I know of one community that went the wood table way and the tables 
> are so
> heavy that it takes four men to lift them to stack. Stack in this case 
> is
> just one on top of another.  Folding legs is a good idea.

There is a whole thread on this in the archives. What kind of tables 
will probably become a chapter in the next big book on cohousing.

Folding legs make a table flimsy and wobbly unless they are very good 
quality. We have very good ones and they are VERY heavy. Big metal 
folding legs. We want to replace them just because they are too heavy 
to move. With what? Good question.

Our tables are moved at least twice a month for meetings and then back 
again for meals. Then folded and carted out twice a month for cleaning 
which some think is unnecessary -- do you fold up and remove tables at 
home to clean? Other than cleaning we remove all the tables at most 3-4 
times a year. We had expected to remove them much more than that for 
things like yoga classes (never happened) and dances (1-2 times a year 
tops).

So the lifting to move around the room is the most frequent need.

One problem with some tables of one kind and other tables of another 
kind is that it makes them harder to mix and match when you want to 
make table configurations for meetings, large and small.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org