We don’t really have a dining room in our apartment, although we do have a small dining nook. Previously the pass through was open the entire width of the kitchen; during reconstruction we added a wall on one side in the corner which allowed us to put a longer upper cabinet on the kitchen side and also provided a spot for a tiny table on the living room side.
And our table is tiny. We got it at Ikea, the masters of efficient furniture for small spaces. The table has two drop leaves; unopened it measures 28 inches by 31 inches (the 31 inches being the space across between the two diners). You could call it crowded but I prefer to say we experience intimate dining.
Each leaf adds another 11 ½ inches to the length of the table—the 28 inch side—so when it’s fully open it measures 51 inches long and can hold four people who better know each other well. When Ben and Jen and the kids come, we will need to either park the kids at the coffee table or pull out the craft table. There’s no way six people can fit at our table.
We rarely eat at the table. Honestly, our desk chairs are very comfortable so mostly we eat together at our desks. But when we have people over, we open up the table and pull out the two folding chairs we have that look like proper chairs (ours are black, not cherry).
I took this video one night when we were having some friends over for dinner. The table is so rarely open that all the cats felt the need to investigate what was going on. The rest is history.
2 comments:
Too funny!! Sasha, my black cat, loves to sit on the chairs at the table - of course I have a table runner or table cloth so it gives her what she thinks is a "perfect hiding place." Except that you can see her! I love that all 3 of yours decided to gather there at the same time!!
Eddie and Wally are litter mates so they hang out together all the time. But Chloe is a loner and avoids getting close to the younger rowdier cats all the time. So this was truly unusual behavior.
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