Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Tables

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Joani Blank wrote:

>  And the tables that Sharon has pointed us to
> from Southern Aluminum are really not at all good because there's no
> way anyone can sit at the ends of those table.

We now have similar legs and it is a problem. Southern Aluminum does  
have another leg that is A shaped. We are having the sales rep come  
and show us this one. We do want folding tables and do fold them up  
for dances, parties, large events (stand up), cleaning, etc.

Southern Aluminum also makes a 6 foot table for which the legs may be  
placed in further in so they would be less in the way, but we need to  
confirm this. The problem is having enough room under the table for  
both legs to fold flat under the table.

The card table size does have legs at the corner but this is a  
"specialty" table and relatively more expensive for less seating space  
although they could be grouped in more configurations. We have some  
tables this size and they have pedestal legs but they are much less  
stable because they are taken apart to store. This wears out the  
attachments.

Another thing to check is that we have lost some of the adjusting feet  
and have not been able to find replacements. If you get tables with  
these feet, buy extra when you buy the tables or choose tables with a  
standard foot. They may use a different size if you go back to them  
later.

>  But even then remember that
> by far the most important use  of those tables is to have a really
> wonderful place to enjoy your common meals and the attendant
> conversations.

Actually our biggest use is for meetings and other activities in a  
range of sizes, thus moving the tables around for various  
configurations is the biggest problem with the heavy tables. We have  
only one meal a week and the tables have to be moved back into  
position for this. Also they need to be moved for cleaning and are  
folded away for deep cleaning.

We move them more than once a week, although we don't fold and put  
them away more than once (maybe twice?) a month. We don't have room to  
stack tables in a corner and still have room for any activity that we  
would want to have the tables moved for.

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