Recent Craigslist Find

Back when we bought our house Bryce aunt and uncle gave their old dining room table, which was great since we were using a poker table my Grandpa has built and some school like chairs that I got at goodwill in college. The table is solid oak with several leaves so it gets nice and big for lots of family. The chairs were also oak, with not so beautiful 80's material on the seat and back. I originally had great plans to reupholster the chairs, until we discovered that the way they are built is not very sturdy and several of them were close to breaking down.

So I spent the summer searching yard sales and craigslist, but even used chairs are terribly expensive! Bryce came across these pretty oak chairs a few weeks ago and was finally able to pick them up on Saturday:



The set of 4 chairs was only $60, which is a great deal! A plain old ladder back chair new is $60, and these are much prettier than that! There are only 4, and our 80's set had 8, but we figure if a lot of family and friends are over we can supplement with folding chairs, which are much easier to store than the bulky 80's chairs which have been taking up a good portion of our guest bedroom downstairs. So here's to many yummy dinners with our beautiful hand-me-down table and craigslist chairs!