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

[jaybirdsmommy]

That's a good question. I have absolutely no idea. Good thing we are eating elsewhere since I can't find the chairs either.

 

[powellrj]

Behind the sofa.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Drum roll... Its built into the table lol.
You pull the table part, flip up the leaf, push the table back together, and there ya go

 

[NFLDERS]

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

My set was passed on to me from my parents. My fondest memory (besides those when my children were young) was of my father a recovering alcoholic (PTSD/WW2) sat at the head of that table 7 months sober, (I was 14 years old) and we were all so very happy, and proud. He continued in sobriety for the rest of his life. When it was time to shed it in our downsize, because we could not find anyone interested in buying it, and it's now owners unable to afford it we gave it to them. It made me so very happy just to see how tickled they were to receive it.

 

[RedAngie]

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?

What would husbands know about such things???? Mine have always been stored sideways, either upright or long side down. They've never warped.

I have two leafs. They're both stored in the foyer closet. In the past I've had them against the wall behind the sofa, in the garage, basement, and upstairs storage room. They have their own "sleeping bags," as a PP called them.

 

[NYCgrrl]

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.

Drum roll... Its built into the table lol.
You pull the table part, flip up the leaf, push the table back together, and there ya go

When my mother moved to her next to last independent residence she asked me to clean her d/r table and chairs that she was selling to a family friend. The man and I found a crumpled paper bag filled with hundreds of folded dollar bills and adding machine tape that was comprised of several day's receipts for her store atop the leaf attached to the bottom of her D/R table. Nice end to a complaint we'd allllll heard for several years.
She was in her 70's then and now is in her 90's and gets lots o' 'lil ol' lady passes.

 

[mom2rtk]

What would husbands know about such things???? Mine have always been stored sideways, either upright or long side down. They've never warped.

I have two leafs. They're both stored in the foyer closet. In the past I've had them against the wall behind the sofa, in the garage, basement, and upstairs storage room. They have their own "sleeping bags," as a PP called them.

I made sleeping bags for mine many years ago. They are stored upright leaning against a wall in the attic. Those suckers are so heavy there's no way they are warping.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

I have a huge table with 4 leaves and all 4 are stored in the table. You pull the table out as far as it goes and the leaves are stored lengthwise under it on a built in rack. Very easy.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

In the hall closet although I won't need it this year. No guests - just the 4 of us since my son is coming home.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

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?

It's attached to the table. We just pull the sides apart and it lifts into place.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

I have a huge table with 4 leaves and all 4 are stored in the table. You pull the table out as far as it goes and the leaves are stored lengthwise under it on a built in rack. Very easy.

That's how my dining room table stores the leaves too.

 

[PollyannaMom]

We go to MIL's for Thanksgiving, and eat in the kitchen here at home, so no leaves to worry about here. - If I had them, I'd probably store them in the hall closet (though I love the idea of having them built in somehow!)

 

[ronandannette]

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?

No leaf, unfortunately - I wish I did have one. Our current table was purchased to fit the space and it's a glass-top that seats 6. Any more and we have to go the buffet-and-eat-on-the-couches route. I'd LOVE to be able to seat 12 again, like I could in previous houses but in reality, it's only two or 3 times a year I'd ever actually do it.

 

[bethbuchall]

We only have one dining room and one table, so it's both every day and formal. The table has a butterfly leaf that stores right in the table, but we usually just keep the table big all year because it's not all that big.

 

[georgina]

Front hall closet. My parents also kept theirs in the coat closet.

 

[Mirielle]

Now that I've finally gotten an old pump organ out of the dining room, our 2 leaves have been put back in the table. Much better!

 

[jevs]

I keep my leaves on my trees.

 

[tvguy]

Both leaves are in the walk-in closed in the bedroom we added on along with the table pads we only use at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

 

[disykat]

There is room for one stored under the table top. If the other one is off, it lives behind the door in the master closet.