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“Better hang on to it just in case” ~boomers
My parents rented a storage unit when my grandma passed because no one had room for her nice furniture. And it is nice furniture, very well built - but no one is ever going to have the space for a 12ft tall curio cabinet. Let it goo.
I like those big cabinets in place of kitchen cabinets. Glass front makes everything look better, I don’t put curios in them. Plates, glasses, bottles, booze, whatever goes in them ends up looking good.
It’s probably an easier decision to make when you were born early enough to own a big house
If it was something nice they weren’t wrong. Everything manufactured today is fucking garbage.
You can get good furniture, it’s just really expensive.
which is why I have a wood shop.
So again, hanging on to a proven good item is the correct move.
Agreed. Can still be cut down or modified, and then painted to update it.
The style is wrong though. We have a minimalist modern space, so a big orange cabinet honestly just doesn’t fit. We are allowed to decorate the way we like without being held hostage by our parents and grandparents aesthetic preferences.
If it was nice, they would be keeping it for themselves
You need to look at the positive: this way they make more profit for the megacorporations manufacturing and selling them.
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The table are never the issue. The problem are the impratical heavy and bulky chairs. I could put the table against a wall and use it as a countertop move it to the center once in a blue moon when I receive lots of people. But what should a do with chair to feel up a room.
Chairs are fucking expensive though. It’s always like “oh, this table is only 300” “yeah, but the matching chairs are 120 each”
Yeah and most of them are bad. So many people have matching chairs but such chair are too heavy to put easy in a place when you’ll sit confortably and they will fall over easily from lack of balance. The antique ones are balanced at least.
I did this. The only thing I took from my grandparents when we had to sell was the dining table. Too many memories to let go, and it’s solid wood. Its a 4 seat table but expands to 6 if needed. Perfect size. Fuck those matching chairs though. Solid wood too, but my god, they are so bulky, heavy, ugly and uncomfortable. We went and got cheap, modern chairs instead, and it actually worked out really well.
My inlaws have a GIANT 10/12 person table with matching high back solid wood chairs that they beg for the family to take when they are gone. None of us will have space for it and will see it more than likely donated/dumped.
I am looking to replace my dining room chairs, and I just can’t find any that I actually like. It’s as if the general design of dining room chairs is unappealing. I’ve considered getting some comfy office chairs.
It should be noted that I use my dining room for tabletop gaming almost as much as actual dining.
My grandparents had a table that could seat 24. It was insanely big, but made for some nice holiday memories.
I don’t even have a room in my house that can fit 24 people.
Depends on how…. intimate you want to get.
It won’t fit between the hutch, buffet, and five corner cabinets.
I am currently living in my great-grandparents’ house. Every room is tiny and filled with stuff three generations of my family kept. I have four tiny rooms and my whole life is stuffed into 3/4 of one cause my parents refuse to part with anything.
I guess what I’m really asking is… could you use my grandma’s antique dining table in your studio apartment?
Boomers hoard.
My grandmother’s house. I have two sewing machines, a 6-place dining set, fine china to serve 8, two sewing machines, several rickety old pillar tables and candle stands, a cabinet full of random glassware, a drawer full of ratty, yellowed old doilies my father “remembers from when I was a kid.” At least three unassworthy antique rocking chairs that are too delicate to serve a purpose…So much shit my father wants, but won’t move into his own heavily cluttered house.
My grandma’s table can only fit 6 people but it can extend (as seamlessly as moving wood pieces can be) to fit 8, it’s the only shape shifting table I’ve seen.
I have one, my parents have one, and I just found out that the person I’m dating has one (technically her parents have it). So they must not be too uncommon.
Shape shifting tables are actually quite common! There are quite a few types:
- Tilt Top Chair-tables. Hinged closed, it’s a table about the size of a poker table. Hinged open, it’s an armchair, with the tabletop forming the back.
- Drop-leaf tables. I’ve seen these in several shapes but the typical pattern is a long, thin rectangular table with hinged panels that can be folded up to extend the top. They can be folded to as little as 18 inches wide and stowed against a wall, you can open the free side with it still against the wall to seat a few people, or you can slide it away from the wall, open both leaves and have a full size table. Stowage of side chairs is a separate issue. The shakers were fond of drop-leaf tables, and made some truly huge ones that could seat a dozen people or more when unfolded, but would stow very efficiently.
- Extending tables. My dining room table is one of MANY examples, you’ll find them all over the United States because it’s objectively the worst of the lot: The long apron rails aren’t continuous but attached by a slide mechanism. The tabletop is split in half, so you get two table halves that can slide relative to each other. A gap can be opened wide enough to admit one or two lift-out sections to make the table longer. My dining room table can collapse to seat 4 around a (mostly) round table or extended to seat 6. All the additional hardware plus the two extra apron rails necessary make the table heavier than it should be, the slides never work right and if you prefer to have it collapsed, where do you stow the leaves? I guess with the two side chairs you nearly never use.
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Sounds like they get to turn a studio into a loft for free.
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My wife’s parents have a ton of antique furniture. They’ve given us some stuff, it is out in the garage now. They see our furniture, it is more modern. My mother in law has been pouty, “oh, I guess we need to sell all this before we die! You aren’t going to want any of this.” Thank you, yes. That is exactly what I want. I know that was supposed to be a guilt trip, but that is exactly what we want. Lol
antique furniture
you mean antique or just old. Not the same thing.
Antique. I’d say mission style furniture. My father in law used to do restorations. But it really isn’t my scene at all. My ideal house would be all mid-century. But I also like more modern contemporary furniture.
Years ago in collage my mom tried to dump her old CRT TV on me with a roku.
“we’re leaving this tv with you”
“I don’t want it, if you leave it here I am throwing it out”
“Oh son you could use it to watch netflix”
“or mom i could watch netflix on my phone, my smart tv, my xbox one, my xbox 360, my ps3, my computer, my other computer, my other other computer all of which would be in high resolution. If you leave that here I am putting it where it belongs, in the trash”
This is a shortened version of the conversation that went on far too long with me getting more and more annoyed with being given garbage.
It is chock full of yummy copper though!
I would take a CRT in a heartbeat. It makes watching 4:3 content feel right, especially older Star Treks.
Allegedly it is good with vintage video games (e.g. NES). The weird idiosyncracies of CRTs were accounted for when developing the games.
Not just NES; games were largely designed with CRTs in mind all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!
Legitimately would love a decent CRT TV (and room for it) to be able to authentically play Point Blank again - light gun games of that era only work on CRTs.
all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!
You just gonna ignore the poor Dreamcast like that?
My bad!
How could I literally forget Sega’s last, beautiful disaster? 🤦🏻♂️ I spent so much time playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike on it back in the day…
Not allegedly, it’s quite true. CRT’s tech approach adds gradients, depth to the colors and softens sharp pixel corners. Any sprite based game will look richer on a CRT, but filters are eh 80% good enough
This video shows the difference quite neatly. (Timestamp included for Earthworm Jim)
Daymn
Yeah, CRT’s are awesome in the right hands, not for watching Netflix
One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.
They’re obsessed with this idea that people they perceive to be lower on the social hierarchy than them can somehow always have a use for their old stuff. As if using their old stuff is part of the process to become successful like them.
stuff used to be more expensive relative to wages, especially electronics. our parent’s generation were from a time where a TV cost 3 months rent. now a month of rent is 3 TVs. this also accounts for “you’re poor but you have an iPhone” discourse
My parents have a shed with all the shit that they have amassed over the years. Somehow my moonboot from 2016-17 ended up there, and I think it’s still there to this day. Along with other random things like a slide projector.
Lol, give it to a kid and watch the bands snap on the first jump 😔
My grandma was the last one to go of all her sisters.
Her apartment had EIGHT full coffee sets, cups, plates, saucers, sugar dishes etc. just because she inherited them from her siblings and thought we’d want them
Nobody wants any of them, they’re old and pretty and also worth exactly zero euros.
Not quite the same situation but when my grandparents moved in with my parents, they set aside everything in their kitchen into storage and it sat there for 30 years until they died. I save a few things then set most of it out on table with a free sign and 99.99 percent of it got scooped up quick. A fed ex driver told us they were new to the area and almost everything in their kitchen came from our table.
I don’t think small family heirlooms are the issue OP is trying to address. It’s about naitivity of the older generation(s) passing down items that had fit their lifestyle, but their generation made it difficult for the current generation to have the same standards of living.
Well, it might be enough wood to make a hoovel to live in that fits all the 2 m2 of land a young person can afford nowadays.
If it’s solid oak you bet your ass I’ll take it. I’ll never tell you that I’ll scrap it for parts though. New wood is expensive and planing and joining wood is a pain, cutting some cabinet doors from a table is way easier.
Those would be some thick ass cabinet doors.
Not if you do an ungodly amount of sanding!
Heck yeah. Sell it as-is, chop it down into two smaller tables, use the rest for shelves.
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I’m genuinely curious about this, I’m assuming the top part contains a 40"-ish oled TV and they’re doing some kind of graphical activity with this (design, photo/video editing, etc). Did they fit PC parts somehow within the bottom part? Seems a bit thin for that. But TBH something in this kind of format in a solid stage style case could be very useful in my field for on-site monitoring/testing.
They have a very prolific YouTube channel, so yeah, editing.
TBH, his current weird laptop with the extendable height screen seems solidly useful.
and they’re doing some kind of graphical activity with this (design, photo/video editing, etc)
I imagine they’re not actually using it for anything beyond, “look at this thing we did!”
This is pretty much what we did in my first apartment. There were four of us, and we all just circled our monitors around one end of a dining table, and the other end was kept clear for eating, projects workspace, etc… Every night was like an old school LAN party. I’ll admit, it wasn’t the worst setup. It was definitely “college kid in a cramped dorm room” vibes, but that’s pretty much what we were. Getting around the back of the table was kind of a pain, but the only people who ever realistically needed to get back there were the two people who sat on that side.
