Unique Serving Platter

Although I love my dining room table, it is about to go. I live in a small apartment, and I have found that it collects packages and other things so much that we no longer eat there. I know that it is bad for a family to watch television while they are eating dinner, but right now this is the best for us. Quite often we sit around the coffee table rather than the dining room table to eat our meals. It’s less than ideal, but when you live in a place a small as we do, you have to do what works.

My dining room table has been around for quite a while. It was in my father’s house for many years and he gave it to us when he bought a new table. It’s not that I don’t like the table, it’s just that it’s not helping my clutter situation at all. If you were to look at my dining room table right now you would see piles of laundry, a stack of bills, tools, drawings, and a big basket of odds and ends. Once in awhile I get motivated and clear off the table, this doesn’t happen as often as I wish.

I hope that we will soon be buying our own house and that we will have a special place for our dining room table. We have a space that is considered the dining room, but this space is very tiny. When the dryer broke on our apartment size washer and dryer unit, our landlord bought a full-sized dryer. Because we had nowhere else to put it, it went in the dining room space. This left little room for the dining room table, or anything else for that matter.

If I were to have my own home, I would never consider getting rid of my dining room table. I do very much want to have a dining room so that we may eat meals together away from the television. I think that that half an hour for mealtime should be a special time for my husband and our daughter. Because he works so much, they sometimes do not get to spend in a lot of time together. Perhaps having a functional dining room table would change all of this. All I know is that until we have room for everything that we need, my table will serve as a landing place for everything and anything.

Though I am contemplating getting rid of my dining room table, there are many reasons why want to keep it. One of these reasons is that it is a drop leaf table. This means that if I choose to make the table smaller, I only have to do a few simple things to achieve that. Though I usually have a table set up in it’s full form, I can make it smaller if I wish to do so. You will find some of the most expensive dining room tables will not do this and this is something I do not understand.

Perhaps they believe that those who have enough money to spend thousands on a dining room table, you do not need to have a drop leaf table. I guess the reasoning would be is that if you have that much money to spend on a table you certainly have enough space for a full sized dining room table. I’m not really sure if this is the case, but that would be my best guess. I do know that my grandparents had a very nice dining room table and this one was indeed a drop leaf table. It also extended even further for family functions.

There is one thing I learned about a drop leaf table and you should keep an eye on it’s age. The more wear and tear a table has gone through, the more stress that has been put on it. If you have an older drop leaf table, you may find that the hardware that holds the leaves up is not as sturdy and reliable as it used to be. I refrain from putting heavy objects on the sides of my tables, so that I do not put any stress on leaf part of the table. All it will take is one extra heavy load to break off the side of my table for good.

If you have a smaller space, but there are times that you need a larger table, a drop leaf table is probably exactly what you need. You will have to deal with a large table all the time. When you need more room for more people, you should only take you minutes to get a larger table. Many families like to get together for holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they often need more space at their table. Many rely on the drop leaf table for this purpose.