The Table

Anastasia and I were given money to go get a dining room table. We bought the table below. It was a great deal: on clearance, with both leaves in you could fit 10 people around it, without the leaves six. Anastasia liked the oak....


Then we got home and started measuring again. I had measured a day or two before we left and thought- that will be easy to remember. We realized that our not that large dining room now was going to have a huge oak slab dominating it and that walking sideways would soon become a matter of instinct. We called the furniture store back and they were nice enough to cancel the order for us since we had just placed it and nothing had been done to the table yet. We then started looking through digital pictures of the other tables we had seen and decided to go with this rather different one:

It seats 4-6 people and it actually fits quite nicely in our dining room- 6 inches narrower and three feet shorter. The lessons are- if you make a mistake, admit it right away and don't assume you will remember what seems easy to remember at the time.