Guests for dinner--Where's the table leaf???

[LilyWDW]

My grandma kept hers under the bed in the spare bedroom.

My mom kept hers in the closet of the spare bedroom.

I only have a 4 person table that doesn't have leaves. Plus, my roasted will be set up on it so my friend and I will eat at the coffee table in the living room. Yay apartment living!

 

[mousefanmichelle]

We have 2 for our table and they are covered in fleece under our bed. I thought we were weird for doing this but glad I see others doing the same. I would love to put them in a closet but my husband insists they will warp if we put them on their side vs laying flat under the bed.

Any truth to this?

 

[Poohforyou]

Ours is in the closet under the stairs. We've been in our house 10+ years and have never used it.

If we have more than 6 for a sit down meal the kids eat in the kitchen. This hasn't happened in about 5 years.

 

[nene0182]

My mother's table stores the leaf in it... you pull the table apart and it's under it on little hinges. You just pull it up and push the table back together.

That’s how our table was growing up. I admit I’ve never looked into buying a table with a leaf so I didn’t know that not every table didn’t come with their leaf attached like my parent’s table.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

We don't have either table anymore, but our first one has two leaves that we stored in my walk-in closet up against the wall.

The second one was attached the the table and folded up right underneath it. So much easier!

 

[aprilchem]

One is under the sideboard, one is under my bed. My table can be 12' long when I extend it completely.

 

[punkin]

I have two leaves that pull out from the ends of the table

 

[cedricandsophie]

I idea. That’s why I always rent tables and chairs

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

My table stores the leaves inside it. There is a compartment when you pull the table apart that they are in.

 

[winterman]

In the computer room closet.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I believe they are currently in the table

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Well dining room table doesn't really get used. It needs some loving and isn't stable enough (chairs included) for people to eat on and sit on. It belonged to my grandma who then gave it to my mom who then gave it to me (though she doesn't know why I kept it--it's of sentimental value to me). It's just for show but I use it for decoration in the dining room (which new houses don't have as much around me so we had to find a house plan that had a dining room just for my table lol).

Anyways when we were at the rental house we stored the two leaves in the spare room (which technically couldn't be called a bedroom since it didn't have a closet). There wasn't a huge amount of space to put the leaves in.

In our home now both leaves stay in all year round.

The kitchen table has the leaves that just fold right underneath the table part; built-in basically. We've just been leaving the leaves fully extended even though it makes the kitchenette a bit cramped because then we'd have to find a spot to leave the chairs and we don't feel like hauling the chairs up and down the basement stairs if we stored them there anytime we need more than 4 total chairs.

 

[Kitty 34]

Guy at the auto repair shop making small talk asks "You all ready for Thanksgiving?" I thought for a second and replied "Yeah, I don't do anything." "Dishes" he asks? Ok sure I'll do dishes, set the table, be sure beverages are served, etc. Then I remembered...I'll put the leaf in the dining room table! Yes! That will be a big contribution to the meal on my part!

We do have a formal dining room with a table that gets used 3 times per year: Easter/Thanksgiving/Christmas. On each of the three occasions I will retrieve the table leaf from...(drum roll) (or any other kind of dinner roll) UNDER THE COUCH in the living room.

So in the proud tradition of Dis holiday threads: Where do you store your leaf?

We keep our two leaves between the fridge and our trash cabinet.

 

[YachtClubWoman]

I just keep it in the table - ran out of room in the coat closet

 

[adelaster]

We don't have a dining room or any room for any kind of table, so this is not an issue.

On the bright side, we'll never have to host?

 

[cabanafrau]

Our table holds the 3 leaves in a niche that is built into the table itself.

 

[NFLDERS]

My dining room table is...8'x4' and doesn't have a leaf which is a blessing and headache within it's self. When I bought it at an antique shop they claimed it was a conference table from an American embassy in Africa; I believe the conference table part, LOL.
This is it set up for a New Year's Eve dinner

I might need to sell it in order to better fit into our new empty nester apartment and it's making me a tad sad.

We shed ours when we down sized. I feel your sadness ours was formal, and too old fashioned much like DH, and I according to our two sons. Our 9 piece set went to a family with 5 or 6 kids who liked the old fashioned ones!

Our leaf was kept in it all year long.

 

[OneOftheB's]

The leaves for our dining room table are used a few times a year and are stored in the closet in our library along with their corresponding felt and vinyl table covers. My kitchen table is an antique that has 5 leaves. Those are stored in a hallway upstairs; they have their own matching storage case that protects them. It’s so heavy there would be no way one person could pull them out of a closet or from under a bed.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

We shed ours when we down sized. I feel your sadness ours was formal, and too old fashioned much like DH, and I according to our two sons. Our 9 piece set went to a family with 5 or 6 kids who liked the old fashioned ones! Our leaf was kept in it all year long.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was sad to see their family table go.

We bought one specifically for a space in our newly build home when DS17 was 2 and we were so young and idealistic in thinking our lives would be perfect forever. For the next 8 years, we used that beautiful table every day and every holiday the 2 leaves would extend our seating to 12-14 people to accommodate out big extended family. Then the economic crash of 2008 hit, and we packed up and moved out of state. In our first house, we didn't have a dining room and the table (without the leaves) was so big in our kitchen that we couldn't open the fridge door all the way, so eventually we sold it. It was so hard and emotional - the memories of all three of my kids sitting in high chairs eating their first meals at that table....setting it so pretty for Christmas Eve dinner with cloth linens and candles and centerpieces and seeing my kids grow up each year in the glow of the candlelight....sigh

Now we have a dinnette-style table that the 5 of us crowd around. I tried setting it last year for Christmas Eve dinner and there wasn't even enough room to place all of the placemats without folding them. And certainly not a spot anymore to lay out an extra place setting for an unexpected guest (which was always our tradition).

And now I am so homesick for the first time in a REALLY long time - we have lived here for 7 years now! I thought I was past that! haha

 

[Meriweather]

Under the bed in the guest room