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Dining Sets - Upholstered or not?
DH and I are starting to look for a dining set for our poor, still-empty dining room. He likes the look of an upholstered set and I just keep thinking of the upkeep of upholstered chairs - especially the WHITE ones DH decided to like!
Do you have upholstered/leather or plain wood? Which would you recommend?
(on a side note... the outdoor furniture prices at Levin almost made me roll down the escalator)
Re: Dining Sets - Upholstered or not?
I personally prefer all wooden dining sets. It seems to me upholstered sets always end up looking worn and old long before their time and why would you want to pay every so often to have them re-upholstered so they continue to look nice. Although I do think leather ones hold up better.
I would opt for a plain wooden set. You could always put cushions on them (but I'm not a fan of those either). Dining tables are a place to eat not sit all afternoon. Padded chairs aren't necessary.
I think it just depends on the set. I have this image of upholstered ones that I really dislike because it reminds me of outdated, worn, etc. My grandparents had an upholstered set and that's what I always picture when I think about them. So I think that's why I originally was drawn towards all wood. However, I have seen some nice new ones. My friend has a set that is upholstered on the seats and it's really a nice set. Our set is all wooden and I love ours too. I just don't think we saw any upholstered ones we liked at the time. I love the simplicity of ours and not having to worry at all about fabric with a kid and food.
I think for us we like the look of many of the all wood sets, whereas we don't like as many of the upholstered sets.
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
Ours are not upholstered but that is because I think upholstered chairs would look odd with our table. We don't have a set per se. Our table and chairs are from Pottery Barn. The buffet and china closet are "vintage" although we do have the table and chairs that match in our attic and they are upholstered but I am not a fan.
FWIW, we have this table and these chairs
Oooh, Kris. I like that set!!
Of course the wooden-seat set we liked just went out onto the floor yesterday, so it's not on sale. I don't mind spending the money on a nice set, but I don't feel like any that we saw were very good quality.
I think we need something between formal and rustic. We're not too into the country look, either.
At least this makes me feel a little better about upholstered seats. I found leather chairs at TJ Maxx that I loved. I would only need to find a matching table... and two extra chairs at another TJ Maxx maybe. Perhaps matching a table won't be as difficult as I had thought.
This is our style too and I struggle to get it right.
I was going to say, TJ Maxx, Marshall's and Home Goods have pretty upholstered dining chairs for cheap, but they always have 2 of a kind. So if you want them all to match you have to drive around!
I think pedestal tables look nice w/ all styles of seating personally. We ordered this from Pier One for our dinette and it's 68" with the extension ($399 and comes in black and brown):
Different style examples:
Thanks, they have had it for a while. I got it when I moved into my house, 12 years ago. I do believe it was on sale of some sort, but my parents bought it for me since they thought my dining room looked sad with no furniture! Although, my husband "collects" dining room sets. At one point we had 3. We sold one to my sister and the other is in our attic.