We talk a lot about cooking, but frankly, dining and eating is just as important to our development as cooks; we love the final satisfaction of sitting down to a well-laid table.
Do you dream of space, tables, cut crystal, or outdoor patios? What is your dream dining setup? More about ours below...
Our own progression toward a well-laid, hospitable table has wended through many - it's been a tiny round one in an eat-in kitchen; it's been a glass-topped monstrosity when we lived with a pack of roommates; it's been a huge family-style board.
Our dream dining room is just big enough to hold a long, long farm table - big enough to roll out Christmas cookies for 50, big enough to need benches and chairs, big enough to seat a dozen friends or more. We get greedy when we dream. Is 8' too big? 10'? How about 12'! We wouldn't mind an apartment or house that was just big enough to fit a dining room table this big and nothing else.
Right now we're dreaming over these long handmade Slab Tables from BDDW, a gorgeous store that mixes up modern, American primitive, and rustic. They're located right next door to our offices in New York, so every time we walk by we give a little sigh. Good for dreaming, and for inspiration.
That's our little dining room dream; who knows if it will ever come true. No matter what you dream of, it's still true that the smallest corner or TV tray can be transformed into a place of warm hospitality and good food. It's all about what you put on the table.
But if you could choose any table, any setting - what would it be? A big table like this? Cut crystal? Modern dishes and beautiful flowers? Big? Little? In the kitchen or out? Tell us...
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i would love a slab style table but right now i'm sitting pretty good with my 10 footer plank table.
i'd also stick to white ceramics for tableware... nice modern lines and just a tiny flourish of detail that make it stand out from your basic flat white.
haven't found much if any flatware that i really like though. i love my cultery to be light, medium sized and 4 tines a fork, with slightly off kilter spoons.
napkins would be where i'd experiment with grand flourishes of colour and detail. all the better to hide any perma stains with ;)
and just basic, comfortable-to-grip glasses. i don't need reidel though i can certainly testify to the effectiveness of wine glass shapes.
NO to benches, but yes to lots of comfortable and eclectic chairs. all the better to lounge in after dinner with a glass of wine or port.
lastly, some great free flowing centrepieces of personal items or flowers and some good dimmed lighting.
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I'd love to have space for a long farmhouse style table (and enough benches/chairs), but right now, I just put two tables end to end (and shove other furniture out of the way) when having big dinner parties. We had to do that for our last "extended family dinner" (what we're calling our open-door-dinners).
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