Featured Dining Sets and Fashion Trends

Once more the Ghopper household proves itself to be dreadfully out of fashion.

This is a Queen Anne Revival walnut dining room set with tapestry (not needlepoint) seats. It was purchased by the Ghopper parents in the 1960s, and has been sitting in their house for over 60 years. Yesterday I drove the requisite hours and moved it to Casa Ghopper. I don't know the manufacturer, but the quality is good and it doesn't really matter to me anyway.

Why out of fashion? We know that the age of dining rooms is over, or at least in hiatus. But here at Casa G. we do have a dining room, as longtime board members know, so we decided to replace our Rococo Revival mahogany table and Renaissance Revival chairs with family stuff. Our new table isn't as good as the old one, though the chairs are better. Though classically inspired, I think that the walnut pieces go pretty well with all the Victorian walnut pieces that you see in the background, albeit that they're a shade or two lighter. So: a table, 3 leaves, and 8 chairs, 4 of which you see.

Dining rooms and dining room sets are over, at least for the time being, and probably for our lifetimes. Given over to the now-cliched open floor plan. We remain defiant of trends here at the Casa, cleaving to the out of fashion - as you see - and reveling in it.

Love ya!

 

Very nice!

 

I love your house, Ghopper!

 

So glad it does.
Your parent's dining set fits right in, it looks the part in your historic setting.

I have one living room in my 1960 house, but fortunately I have enough space for a large dining table as well as an equally large coffee table (antique bed from Madura, Indonesia), sofas, etc.

 

Love the warmth of the wood in your parent's table. Things were still made very well in the 1960s. The chairs look beautiful too.

 

It looks wonderful there, Hopps and way to keep it in the family

 

Fits in well.

 

Looks to be nice quality and fits right in. Have to say, as much as I appreciate traditional interiors, I am part of the anti-dining room crowd. We took the walls down and made ours part of the kitchen. It, in turn, is open to the living room via an expanded wall opening. We just don't have the extra space for a room we don't use and the new floor plan flows much better now.

 

@Ghopper1924 ... , you are always in Fashion , around here !!!!!

 

Respect for @verybrad and love for @komokwa....and everyone else!

 

The chairs look like my sister and BiL's set, oddly enough. Good quality, classic design, and thoroughly not in style (and who cares).

 

I still have a dining room and use it from time to time, mostly holidays. I have "good china" and silverware, stemware, table linens, candlesticks, wine coasters, the whole shebang. Don't care if it's out of fashion, just know that everyone likes to come to our house at the holidays for a "sit down dinner".

Dining rooms are not out of fashion, they've just changed a little. The tables seem to be simpler, yet larger, and now they're mostly integrated into the kitchen space. But if you tune in to HGTV, you'll hear how a lot of people are getting back into the dining room idea but it's a little more casual.

I like your new/old table and chairs, ghoph, and hopefully, you will use it soon.

 

I still have a dining room, and a formal living room, we use them both. I, like @ola402 have sit down dinners still. I was never one for open concept I like separation & I still use cloth napkins! Enjoy it & you are always in style with a classic.

 

We have an open floor plan and have a dining room table and chairs set off by themselves. We use it for holidays, or when we have company

The women we bought the house from had that area set off by a room dividing bookcase, she used it as a reading nook.

 

If I didn't have Grandma and Grandpa's dining room set in mine, it probable would have been a train layout and then my eBay storage area. RIght now it's mostly the storage area.

 

Your dining room set looks great! I’m so glad you can enjoy it!

I have a formal dining room in my 1929 house. The kitchen has a built in breakfast nook with benches, so we eat most of the meals there. But, the formal dining room is a very special place, and it’s where we entertain and have our special religious holiday dinners etc. I saw a microfilm article from the local paper, that in the 1930s, the daughter of the original owners hosted an engagement party for a friend at the house. The room was designed and built for entertaining.

Our dining room set itself is a circa 1920s Jacobean revival. The matching buffet is Bernhardt, but I don’t know if the actual dining room set is. It’s the most gorgeous set of furniture. It’s heavy and is solid wood. It’s been in the family for almost 60 years, gifted to our family by another set of family friends who outgrew it, and wanted something more modern. It’s been used for countless special occasions over the last century. I personally think it looks better now, with the patina of a century of love, than it probably did when it was first made.

I know houses are becoming more open concept, and lifestyles are becoming more casual, but I love my formal dining room.