Category: Corners of Our Home

I know the topic of kitchen chairs isn’t terribly thrilling. I’m just so excited I have to share… In an unrelated note: the best part of my kitchen is the freaking awesome art I commissioned from our five year old. To see THAT please scroll down.

For over a decade we’ve been making do, sitting each day at the kitchen table on rickety wooden folding chairs that my parents generously passed on to us. Did you catch that? A DECADE! My butt hurts just thinking about it.

We’ve been meaning to get new chairs for a while now. The catch being that they’re crazy expensive.

(I’ve been talking about buying secondhand, mismatched sturdy wooden chairs and painting them a single color since moving to California seven years ago, but has that happened? No! I have too many other projects I’d rather tackle… so back to our quest to buy new chairs.)

The chairs David and I both liked were waaaaay beyond our budget (at $250 each). These metal chairs were comfortable too, but were also pricey.

Then we found these less expensive metal beauties that are similar in size to the folding chairs we already own (so we knew they’d fit at our kitchen table). Plus they’re really sturdy. I’m not going to lie: the fact that they won’t fold up on our guests sitting on them was a major selling point.

We ordered four originally and love them so much we ordered two more.

Chic, metal, comfortable, and ours.

Goodbye, rickety folding chairs. We’ll see you at Thanksgiving. Or the next time we have lots of friends over. Finally we can use them occasionally, instead of every day, just as they should be used.

Our meals just got so much more (safe and) comfortable.

The kids are sitting in their Stokke Tripp Trapp Highchairs that we LOVE and generously received as gifts from friends.

When my cousin (who had been living with us) moved to San Francisco we found ourselves with an extra room.

The grownups immediately thought “an office JUST FOR US!” (Okay, and a guest room too.)

But we’ve discovered a better use for it.

Our daughter calls it the “other homeschooling room” but it’s really a work space for the whole family. (And we’ll probably call it The Homeschool Room in the long run.)

A place to blog and work from home, yes, but also a place to write stories, scrapbook, draw, sew, play, and read.

(I love the indirect light that pours through that giant window all day.)

We have bins of toys and stacks of educational games and activities.

The “old” homeschooling room will be where we make art and do messy science projects. (We now call it the Art Room.)

Evidently we’re no longer a little one room schoolhouse.

Now to get some art on the walls and find time to decorate and cozy up the space. We have plans.