Well, I have decided sod it, just spend the money and let's get a dining room table that we like. We have the 7 chairs, and today I ordered another one to make it 8, and have spoken to the carpenter about making a table for us.
Now if you don't already know, we live in a big 4 bedroom house with a huge garden and it is pretty much mostly empty as we have never bought any more furniture! Now I am getting rather frustrated with not having anything in the house and so it's time to start buying and making our house look like a home instead of a homeless shelter ...
So, I am going to go home at lunch and measure my dining room and see what size and just how big I can make this table and the matching mirror. I also get to put a Lazy Susan in!!! I have always wanted one - sad I know - but so, so useful and hey, why not. Of course not if it makes it stupidly expensive ... here's hoping!
The wood that we want to use is Dolf - no idea how you spell it, but it is cut up in Zambia and shipped down South, and we are going to try and leave it as natural as possible, so no dark stains, just plain, simple and straightforward. The Teak and Rosewood are too red for my liking although we can get both here - just asked Seth for some advice re the wood as he is a carpenter obviously - pity he's so flipping far away!
Well wish us luck and maybe by the end of the month will have a new dining room table to boast about!! :-D
