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Old 11-06-2012, 09:48 PM
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We have a Begonia, no posts. We still have a condo in MI (gorgeous summers/horrendous winters), so no dining room table down here yet as it's still up there.

In the few months that we've been here, we've had to beg card tables (thank you, Kaye) in order to have people over for dinner. I really miss having a dining room table and feel that we have adequate seating space (living room, lanai, den) and don't need any more of that. We eat at the kitchen counter, but who wants to invite people over for dinner and seat them along a counter? (The nook is too small for entertaining IMO.)

Also, the Begonia without posts (which I didn't want posts) is a big open space, and I feel it would look awkward to have two separate living rooms in one big room with no architectural separation.

I can't wait to get dining room furniture down here. I am negotiating with our son for the return of what he considers to be his "childhood dining room table" (a really cool pine thing handmade by a bunch of drunks for Pier One in the '70s--it's warped), which he is storing right now because their new house can't accommodate it. Putting a hitch on the car as we speak. Have to have it refinished. Promised him he could have it back some day.

I guess we all have different lifestyles and needs. I didn't think I would miss having a dining room, but I do, I really do.