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K is for Kitchen Table

July 17, 2008 By Carole

This is our kitchen table:

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It’s simple and beautiful and – here’s why it’s special – it used to belong to Dale’s grandmother. This is the table that Dale’s dad grew up with and by some stroke of luck it wound up with us.

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I truly love it. I remember when we were doing the kitchen over and Dale asked me if I wanted to get a new table. I thought he was kidding as it never would occur to me that we would get rid of it.

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The wood is worn and gouged. There are marks from where Dale’s Swedish grandmother set down the ever-present coffee pot.

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There’s even a mark from a night when Sharon and I, drinking perhaps too much wine, dyed some yarn and left a stain on the table.

Yes, it’s scarred and stained and burned. But it’s where my family sits down to dinner every night. It’s where I roll out pie crust and decorate cupcakes. It’s where Hannah did her homework when she was little and it’s where Dale rolls countless Swedish meatballs every Christmas. And as we do all those things we remember that those same things were done by generations before us.

This table is a part of our family and I can’t imagine our kitchen without it.

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  1. Danielle says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:02 am

    I would never get rid of it either.

  2. Toni says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:08 am

    I have similar pieces, in fact my house is decorated “early attic.”

  3. Kat with a K says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:18 am

    That’s a wonderful table, and so many memories! I’d never get rid of it either.

  4. margene says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:27 am

    I can’t wait to see your kitchen table! It’s full of love and history.

  5. Kathy says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:27 am

    Wonderful post!

  6. LittleWit says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:34 am

    We have a table like this in our home. It used to be in my boyfriend’s great grandfather’s slaughter house. It’s such a thing of beauty that I doubt it we will ever get rid of it. 🙂

  7. Kris says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:03 am

    I’m with you – its too full of family history to ever get rid of it. Its beautiful!

  8. Liz says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:05 am

    It’s really a beauty, too.

    I feel the same way about our kitchen table. It’s not very old… we got it when we got married nine years ago, but I’ll never replace it.

  9. Susan says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:06 am

    What a lovely table!

  10. Leslie says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:14 am

    What a wonderful family heirloom, so full of memories! I’d love to have something like that in my home. It’s beautiful!

  11. irene says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:15 am

    what a treasure!

  12. Kate says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:18 am

    What nice memories… never ever toss that table! We have two end tables in our apartment that were Dan’s Nana’s. On the underside of the oval one is a whole lot of crayon marking from where Dan was ‘practicing’ his letters as a toddler.

  13. Beth says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:36 am

    I really enjoyed reading your post! Our kitchen table is starting to look like that, but it’s not an heirloom. Maybe we shouldn’t refinish it after all. 🙂

  14. Manise says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:45 am

    What a great K. I love that table.

  15. Judy says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:47 am

    wonderful! I also sit at my Great Grandmother’s table.

  16. Jan says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:47 am

    I have my grandmother’s kitchen table, too, and love it for all the reasons you love your table. We have had houses where it didn’t fit in the kitchen space, but so we used it as a porch table or in my sewing room. It would be hard to part with.

  17. Wool Winder says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:53 am

    It’s great! How old do you think it is?

  18. weedwacker says

    July 17, 2008 at 8:57 am

    There sure is something special about a kitchen table, and I love the warm, inviting look of that one. The markings contain history and sentimental value. I agree that it holds memories and meaning to all that gather there.

  19. Amy says

    July 17, 2008 at 9:23 am

    That is wonderful.

    But you dye and drink? Tsk, tsk.

  20. Deb says

    July 17, 2008 at 9:29 am

    “K” is fo keeper. And kleenex which I now need after reading this post.

  21. Hillary says

    July 17, 2008 at 9:38 am

    That’s a wonderful K. I love furniture with a story and a history.

  22. jillian says

    July 17, 2008 at 9:58 am

    Wonderful! I have few specific dreams or desires regarding future “home” items, but a big, old, worn, farmer’s kitchen table is one of them. Solid wood, knowing it’s been around forever, and the place to do everything.

  23. Lisa says

    July 17, 2008 at 10:02 am

    Great story! Our dining room table was refinished by my Dad and given to us when we boought the house. It was my parents table and when they got a new one it was used in the basement as part of the platform for the car racing set. Yeah, I’ll never get rid of that table either.

  24. Nora says

    July 17, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Just wonderful, Carole! I’d like to sit there with you and have a glass of wine!

  25. Teyani says

    July 17, 2008 at 10:39 am

    what a lovely K – and a grand ol’ gal of a table.
    memories all rubbed into it with love.

  26. Cheryl S. says

    July 17, 2008 at 10:39 am

    I’d love to see it in person some day! Great history there.

  27. Erin says

    July 17, 2008 at 10:41 am

    That is awesome. I love family heirlooms like that.

  28. sprite says

    July 17, 2008 at 10:50 am

    I love your “k” post! My grandmother’s table and chairs are in my folks’ basement waiting for me to live in a place where I either have a kitchen or a living room large enough for a table. It’s almost enough to make me move.

  29. Vicki says

    July 17, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Perfect K. Gorgeous table!

  30. Leah says

    July 17, 2008 at 11:13 am

    What a treasure!

  31. Kat says

    July 17, 2008 at 11:13 am

    K is for Keeper.

  32. Sara says

    July 17, 2008 at 11:57 am

    I love the sentiment you have with that table… for me it is important to have those types of connections. It is nice to see that others have the same types of connections.

    Is that a quilted table decoration and did you quilt it???

  33. Knitnana says

    July 17, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    That’s an heirloom I’d definitely hang onto!
    (((hugs)))

  34. rebecca says

    July 17, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    fabulous table, there’s no way i’d get rid of it either, lucky you!

  35. Judy says

    July 17, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Table is a great treasure. Is that a knitted piece in the middle of the table, love it. Judy from Alaska ~~~

  36. Judy says

    July 17, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Table is a great treasure. Is that a knitted piece in the middle of the table? love it. Judy from Alaska ~~~

  37. Lucia says

    July 17, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    That’s a table marked with love, telling the stories of generations. I am guessing that the center mat is quilted.

  38. JessaLu says

    July 17, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    Of course the table is here to stay – you could never replace that much history! :o)

  39. Cookie says

    July 17, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    How wonderful that you have a kitchen table that is part of the family.

  40. Mary says

    July 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Your table is a beautiful family treasure…you are lucky to own it.

  41. Laurie says

    July 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    I truly love patina. It is US.

  42. Karen says

    July 17, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    It’s a beautiful table! Lucky you! My mom got rid of all the old furniture from her parents and grandparents long before I knew what treasures they were.

  43. elisa says

    July 17, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    Nope. I’d never get rid of it, either. How could any new table ever compete with a table like yours?

  44. Romi says

    July 17, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Hee. That’s absolutely wonderful! I love your table. 🙂

  45. Robin in VA says

    July 17, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Oh…the stories that table to tell!! It’s just broke in–who would want a knew one?

  46. Brenda says

    July 18, 2008 at 12:29 am

    I am an only child, but my dad’s younger sister, who has six children, babysat me while my parents worked. She lived in a wonderful old house with a big kitchen, and she had a huge table. I have so many memories of that table, which she kept covered with a red checked vinyl tablecloth, where we colored on rainy days, ate our lunch, and watched her bake all the dozens of cookies she made for us every week. I forgot about it, but years later, my cousing invited me to a picnic at his farm. He has the table! I can’t tell you how good it felt to sit at that old table, surrounded by the new family members I really don’t know yet and the cousins I grew up with. It was funny, too to realize that now we are the grown-ups, my aunt is the grandma, and my cousins’ children are the kids.

  47. jessie says

    July 28, 2008 at 7:36 am

    These are the kinds of material objects that are really worth something. You could have posted a picture of a brand-new chrome and glass table that cost $15,000 and that you are proud of simply because it’s a luxury item.

    Dale’s table is worth much more.

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