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45) Furnish House with grown-up furniture: Dining room

The day before we left for Thanksgiving, we took delivery of our new dining table:

It came from Tropical Salvage. They had a couple tables like this crafted from sections of a huge tree that was knocked down by wind in one of the Indonesian monsoons. It’s pretty imposing in our dining room, but we totally love it.

It still remains to find a set of dining chairs to go with it. Tropical Salvage does carry chairs too, but we didn’t love any of them. Partially I think that’s because we want upholstered seats and they only carry all-wood chairs, and partially we want chairs distinctive enough to match the table, and they just didn’t have anything that fit the bill. For now, we’re continuing to make due with our patio chairs.