Dining room dilemma...resolved!

A recent post detailed my dining room decorating efforts, all of which turned out quite well, save and except the fact that, nearly five years later, the room lacks a table. While we made do for a long time with a folding table disguised reasonably well under a nice cloth, I hauled the "temporary" table out of there a month ago and swore that it was high time to acquire a proper table on which to dine.

The only drawback of my plan was going to be actually finding an appropriate table for the space. A traditionally-styled, formal dining room table was the last thing I wanted. To the contrary, my mind envisioned a table made of metal and wood, of a design just rustic enough to give it some character, but with clean and simple lines. In order to fit in the available space, the perfect table for our dining room needed to be narrower than most, but yet still be long and wide enough to comfortably seat six people. The table had to be reasonably priced and, to top off what I believed to be a rather tall order, the table would also have to mix and match well with the dining room chairs we already possessed.

Given these requirements, along with limited time to devote to scouring furniture stores or the Internet, I figured the odds of finding a table anytime soon were slim to none. Imagine my surprise when a Home Decorator's Collection catalog arrived in last week's mail and featured within its pages was a new line of dining room furniture. Like some sort of miracle arranged by the gods of home furnishings, one of the featured tables was absolutely perfect in style, size and price, and I wasted no time in placing an order online.

The new table has dark iron legs and a top of reclaimed antique wood in a deep honey finish that should go beautifully with our chairs, as well as the other details already found in the room. The slightly vintage, slightly contemporary design should perfectly complement the decor in the rest of our home, and will also perfectly suit our entertaining style. The only bad news is that the table will not be ready for shipment until early December. However, having gone five years without a real dining room table, this slight delay does not dampen my excitement in the least (although it may make serving Thanksgiving Dinner a bit of a problem).



Until the table arrives, I am content to look at the photos of it online, like the one above, and to dream happily about how great the table should look in our own space. If only all of life's little dilemmas, be they decorating or otherwise, could be resolved so easily!