It's Clear to Me - Life Around the Glass Table. Raised in a family with five children, was maintenance of the house is always a problem for us. Carry the furniture that we had lived on to work hard to hide dirt and remain stable. We ate every night at a laminate-top kitchen table, you know, the kind of photo-engraving wood, through a series of vinyl chairs that surrounded only need an occasional wipe-down.
I am perhaps too sophisticated for my age and have the time, but I knew the decor was not one to emulate that, if I had my own house. I used to go over the dinette store in our neighborhood and look in the window. I saw more tables and chairs inside even the biggest restaurant I've ever visited as I did. But the dining sets that had always caught my eye one thing in common - they all had a glass coffee table. But I knew - never, never would I in my childhood home!
Decades later, the time came to buy my first Dinette Set. I went into a dining store not unlike my childhood neighborhood. I walked in the door, and the first set I saw said to me - it had a white wrought-iron base and upholstered chairs (much more comfortable than they looked), and a 48-inch glass table rolled edge. I casually walked around the store looking for something that I loved so much, but at a moderate price. It did not help. I would only like the chairs with glass table and padded. It fits perfectly in my dining area, and the morning sun shone into my brand new hardwood floors. When I set my glass table and chairs in force, my kitchen looked like a page from a magazine.
At the time I lived in a house with adults - my husband and his parents who were snowbirds in the winter. We have our house with a bedroom, den and kitchen pantry just for them, and when she went shopping furniture, she came home with a dining set of their own - four chairs with high backs, and yes, a glass coffee table.
When the first baby came along, I suspect my mother and mother-in-law thought, "This table will never be clean again." But baby food, wipes and a small amount of glass a few times a day was my favorite glass table looks good.
Within a few years we moved to another state and built a house. Although it is not the top priority, as I search for a new house, I was happy, a house with another large dining area that fit my glass table and chairs to find perfect. Another child was added another set of small hand prints, but the glass table was just as easy to keep clean.
We had to move yet another, and this time we were renovating an old house. If you work with an existing structure, you have to take what you get, but we could rework the kitchen to make us just the right amount of space in the kitchen for our favorite glass table and chairs.
Finally, my luck ran out. Years after I bought the dining set up my dreams, I moved into a house that called for a different size chart. I want to rule the house on the grounds that the glass table - would not fit anymore - where we have so many meals, birthday cakes, Brownie meetings and homework. I agreed.
But as I toured the rest of the house, I noticed a nice place for my reliable friend, the glass table on the covered terrace.
