Many years ago, I inherited a (now) hundred year old gate leg table that my parents bought second hand in the early days of their marriage. It's mahogany, oval, slim - all elegant verticals - very light, and folds down to a narrow rectangle. In my childhood, we managed to seat a large family around it (I'm not sure how!) and it has served us as a couple through several homes as dining table, hall console, and work table. I love it for its practicality, beauty and the memories it holds.
Now we have moved into a smaller house with a single main living space, it opens out fully for the occasional times we have guests and is pushed against the wall, as a half oval as a general repository surface - when we're just two we eat at a small kitchen island my husband built from an offcut and a couple of cupboards. We have light wooden Ikea ladder-backed chairs which are spread round the house as extra clothes hanging space, sofa-bedside tables in the spare room, etc and are brought in as dining chairs when required. I really like living like this, with everything as lightweight and multi-purpose as possible and moved about as needed.
Don't forget the software engineer's definition of "elegant"!
You know we need the pictures of the clothes you bought as much as we need the pictures of the VW van.
I think blue jeans falls under the heading of flexible clothing, at least in the US.
Many years ago, I inherited a (now) hundred year old gate leg table that my parents bought second hand in the early days of their marriage. It's mahogany, oval, slim - all elegant verticals - very light, and folds down to a narrow rectangle. In my childhood, we managed to seat a large family around it (I'm not sure how!) and it has served us as a couple through several homes as dining table, hall console, and work table. I love it for its practicality, beauty and the memories it holds.
Now we have moved into a smaller house with a single main living space, it opens out fully for the occasional times we have guests and is pushed against the wall, as a half oval as a general repository surface - when we're just two we eat at a small kitchen island my husband built from an offcut and a couple of cupboards. We have light wooden Ikea ladder-backed chairs which are spread round the house as extra clothes hanging space, sofa-bedside tables in the spare room, etc and are brought in as dining chairs when required. I really like living like this, with everything as lightweight and multi-purpose as possible and moved about as needed.
And don’t forget the IKEA hack websites. PS, turned out we could have met in London after all.