Sunday morning
Sunday evening
Working table
Tea party table
The kitchen table is probably the most used area in the
house; it acts as a place to eat, work, read, drink, talk, and more. The table
is relatively new due to the fact that I burnt the previous one by leaving a
candle burning away.
The chairs are a mix, some inherited, some new, and as
mentioned in an earlier post, non-matching. This wasn’t a deliberate decision
initially – in all other houses that we have lived in, we always had a pew on
one side of the table and chairs on the other, so there has never been a case
for buying four matching chairs. The pew looked wrong here as the proportions
of the new table meant it couldn’t be placed against the wall; more chairs were
gradually added, initially four, now six.
You can see the pew in the photograph above, taken
shortly after we moved in.
As a child, whenever we sat down as a family to eat, we all
had ‘a place’ where we sat and this never changed. Mum was nearest to the
kitchen, whilst I sat opposite my Dad and next to my brother. D and I have more
chairs and less people to accommodate so we don’t follow any ‘regime’ in terms
of where we sit – however, it is more practical for whoever is cooking to sit
nearest the oven or hob, and I do have a preferred place to sit when I use the
table to work at.
