My Six Seater Dining Table..

So this story begins with a six seater dining table. We were living in Rudrapur at that time- a one horse town in the foothills of Nainital. I got a friend to join me and we drove down to the neighbouring town of Bariely to buy this table. I had established contact here before I reached the place and there was a guy who took us around to different stores to check out some designs. After visiting almost 10 - 15 stores I finally chose this beauty. After all I was the only beholder.

It had to be loaded in a truck and transported and it arrived a day or two later. I loved it so much I hardly could take my eyes off it especially its legs!

It slowly became an important part of our home where I would make my babies sit and feed them, get them to do their homework, solve jigsaw puzzles with them, place freshly bought groceries and veges until I washed up, keep pending work on it to take care of it later and of course push it all aside to dine. And life kept happening.

We moved cities and this beauty moved with us. By this time my children were slightly more grown up, had started full time school and I managed to carve sometime everyday to paint or craft. Of course it was all done on the table and again pushed aside to dine! Years rolled by adding to a ten.

It was time for us to move homes again. This time I had an idea! I wanted a smaller dining table to just dine and move work to a study table in the room. The children by now were grown up enough to feed themselves, and generally take care of themselves.

My father had just passed on and I insisted I wanted to keep his table with me and transported it all the way from Chennai so that it could be my worktable where I painted.

This was placed in our workroom in the house away from the dining area also with the hope of creating a small little studio for myself. Ahh....the thing about dreams!

So what I did; amidst shock, protest, surprise and refusal from the family and the carpenter, I actually cut the table to make it a four seater, re- laminated it in a beautiful shade of blue, made sure the legs were intact and placed it under this gorgeous lamp shade sourced all the way from Dubai all in the pursuit of using it exclusively to dine.

One year into this successful arrangement and we went into the begrudged lockdown. Schools shut, offices shut and we were all WFH.

So now my older one occupied his room with his study table, my husband got the master bedroom for his work and my younger one got my Dad's table and my coveted studio and you guessed it right...I'm back at the dining table working, painting, crafting and serving food as the day goes by.