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#7009878 - 04/13/13 06:03 PM Who knew buying a dining room table is hard?
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For the last 3 months my SO and I have been looking for a dining room table DAILY. Kijiji/craigslist all that shit...no seriously this is one item we wanted to get that's *proper*.

Went to the following places:

Pottery Barn (USA)
Pottery Barn (Yorkdale)
Crate & Barrel
Woodcraft
EQ3
Kudo
West ELM
Random Kijiji Finds
RusTeak
DesignRepublic
etc, etc, etc.

Basically I've seen over 100 different dining room tables at this point and started giving up hope. Our big priority was to have a table that will last a *lifetime* something that an old school relative would approve of (if you get my point). Between all the searching and research one thing is for certain, they don't make them like they used to. We also went to the brick/Leons and all those other big box stores (didn't feel like mentioning) and honestly, everything is garbage. Not trying to undermine their furniture, it's *decent* furniture and we have some of it, but none of it is lifetime. Everything we saw had a shortcut taken through, veneer, thickness of wood, frame, type of wood, always something.

Anyway, today we walked into into one of the stores on Queen west and found a table at last. We were both kind of skeptical at first, don't get me wrong, the live edge is pretty cray cray and it wasn't something we even considered because of trendiness/current hype, but after feeling it, sitting on it, hitting it (MAAA THE MEATLOAF!!!!) I fell in love with it. My SO was pretty weirded out by it, but after an hour in the store it happened.

500 lbs Risky Business table has been purchased at last. I am sure most won't like it, that's fine, not asking to like it, just sharing. Enjoy zeee pix.

I am now broke \:\(
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#7009891 - 04/13/13 06:14 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Risky Business]
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Not my style, but there's nothing like solid wood furniture. Most of the stuff that we have in our house is veneer/MDF cheap stuff, but our dining room table is solid teak. We bought it from some place that sold Indonesian furniture.
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#7009956 - 04/13/13 07:01 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: SW20_MR2]
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Too trendy, will be out of style in a few years and look like 1970s wood paneling in the basement
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#7009993 - 04/13/13 07:27 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Choco 'Nuck]
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Nice kill! Wife and I took forever to decide on our dining and dinette tables as well. We knew what we wanted, and the closest we could find was at Restoration Hardware. We ended up finding the one (out of all places) are Urban Barn.

Now whats hard is finding the right chairs / benches
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#7010019 - 04/13/13 07:39 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: RIC3BOY]
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It reminds me of the outdoor BBQ picnic table in summer months

500 lbs eh? I hope it comes with free delivery?

Or you have to bring it home yourself?
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#7010109 - 04/13/13 08:49 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: iamfob]
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Good thing is you can always take it to a wood shop and get it planned/straightened and put it on a metal frame down the road.
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#7010143 - 04/13/13 09:08 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: LNXGUY]
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very different and kinda cool, still a pass for me though (at least in the house im in). solid wood is win though.

and i agree about furniture shopping, soooooooo much crap out there it's nuts.
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#7010304 - 04/13/13 10:50 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Screamin' Type-R]
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I love it...very cottage like to..

though Im not so sure it fits with your decor ..ill wait to see pics to decide though
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#7010465 - 04/14/13 06:37 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Euphoricuck]
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ring ring ring

wilma flintstone called, she wants her table back!

I dig the table - minus that big curve at the top.

need to see more pics in your house.
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#7010540 - 04/14/13 09:41 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: c2k]
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how much did you pay for that? 2g's+?
i could have gotten one made to your specifications and you could have picked the material.
you could have went to an amish guy and done the same and saved some dough on something custom.

not bad. i like the bench and the table top, but id rather have iron frames.
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#7010595 - 04/14/13 10:41 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Simon_the_Pieman]
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We did look at going custom, my SO's cousin is an interior designer, between her custom guys and the people we met through the home show (including the amish guys) we couldn't really decide on design.

The other issue with custom tables is the 8 week wait and since we wasted this much time looking and have been using a plastic POS table as a dining room table we needed something faster. Even this table will take a month to get done.
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#7010723 - 04/14/13 12:10 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Screamin' Type-R]
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Congrats on finding something you like. Not my style, but it is nice. I'd like to see pics in your place once you get it.
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#7010745 - 04/14/13 12:39 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: SuPeR-MaRiO]
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Is there enough leg room on the ends?
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#7010761 - 04/14/13 12:48 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: BISH0P]
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Baller! My wife and were shopping for furniture in that area as well. Found a couch we both liked... $10k for a couch no thanks.
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#7010890 - 04/14/13 02:54 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Hatorade]
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Sick, I love it. I just got my grandpas old live edge coffee table last week, it looks awesome. Mine has the story on the bottom about my great grandpa planting the tree in 1893, and then real grandpa making it into a table in 1964 or something like that.

It still looks good as new. \:\)
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#7011613 - 04/15/13 06:39 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: SiZ]
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Looks cool! I got my "lifetime" dining table at Mobilia. I never buy stuff from there but it was near where we lived so we would pop in from time to time to browse and we saw that table was a discounted floor model solid maple extendable dining table. Reg. 1299 on sale 250 because one leg was not level. Bought it to see if I could take it home and fix it up some way. The leg was simply not bolted into a hole properly, my win!

I did not buy the chairs that came with it as they were 300 a pop lol 2400$ on chairs
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#7011621 - 04/15/13 06:51 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: oranjizz]
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^^ Just goes to show you the markup on that stuff.
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#7011627 - 04/15/13 06:56 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Choco 'Nuck]
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CHairs are ridiculously expensive, especially for real wood ($300 is going rate easy).

I am going to troll kijiji for something that fits on the sides and probably drop coin for the end table chairs.
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#7011653 - 04/15/13 07:35 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Risky Business]
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just use plastic chairs. You should have plenty sitting outside your front door. Like every peasant has.
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#7011689 - 04/15/13 07:55 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Euphoricuck]
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#7011692 - 04/15/13 07:56 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Screamin' Type-R]
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needs to be laker or carling to be risky approved. thats too expensive
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#7011712 - 04/15/13 08:08 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Euphoricuck]
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needs to be laker or carling to be risky approved. thats too expensive

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#7011740 - 04/15/13 08:25 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: oranjizz]
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Nice table. What was the $$$$ damage? When I was looking, I popped into Design Republic on Queen at Bathurst....they had similar tables but wanted $2k++ for it with a live edge.
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#7028043 - 04/22/13 12:21 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: A2B-Lexus]
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Not my style but I feel you on looking for furniture.

Took my wife and I almost a year and a few hundred stores looking for a couch and dining table. The table had to specific where it could fit the least amount of people (6) when we had either of our families over and then had to expand to hold 11 when both of our families were over for special occassions. Ended up paying over 3gs for the table and chairs.

I'm glad we got all of our furniture within the year and a half we've been living at our place cuz sometimes I just got fed up with the whole thing.
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#7028252 - 04/22/13 01:52 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: civic13]
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looks good, not my kinda thing but my wife's cousins have something similar. i can dig it.
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#7079749 - 05/21/13 08:25 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: titty sprinkles]
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#7079768 - 05/21/13 08:35 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Risky Business]
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Suddenly I feel like playing some pool




















I keed, its not bad.
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#7079819 - 05/21/13 09:12 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Choco 'Nuck]
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who parked big tuners car in your dining room?
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#7079822 - 05/21/13 09:13 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Choco 'Nuck]
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nice looking white cushion.
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#7079828 - 05/21/13 09:17 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: A2B-Lexus]
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whats with that ugly trike/bike drawing?
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#7079867 - 05/21/13 09:43 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Choco 'Nuck]
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 Originally Posted By: Chocolate Canuck
Suddenly I feel like playing some pool
more like shuffleboard
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#7079904 - 05/21/13 10:04 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Alpha-Trion]
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I got wood
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#7079930 - 05/21/13 10:14 AM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Eddie_82]
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whoa, that's a bad ass light above the table... Where'd u get it?

On the other hand, that one floral chair is quite offensive to the eyes
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#7080231 - 05/21/13 12:17 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: fatso]
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lulz

just picked up a new leather couch (natuzzi) from the bay, one of the comfiest i've ever tried (finally!), sectional too, dark brown. reg. price is like $3400...bay day sale for $1800, then we had a gift card for like $800 off.

moved the current leather couch from mobilia to the living room.
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#7080844 - 05/21/13 04:29 PM Re: Who knew buying a dining room table is hard? [Re: Screamin' Type-R]
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I would love it with a darker stain...not bad though
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