• Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    44·
    7 days ago

    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?

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • udon@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 days ago

    Everybody out here complaining that their apartment is not big enough to fit this in but… do you even have 11 friends?

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    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

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        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.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        7 days ago

        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.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • Aljernon@lemmy.today
      3·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
      42·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Nobody wants any of them, they’re old and pretty and also worth exactly zero euros.

      You’d be VERY surprised.

  • FranciscoLopez@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    Classic mom logic: ‘It’s an heirloom, it’ll fit.’ 😅 Honestly though, the table deserves a dining room… and your studio deserves to keep having floor space.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      6 days ago

      Not the same exact boat. They’re just downsizing because all the kids have moved out, and they want to be able to afford going on several vacations a year

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      My wife’s grandma offloaded her fancy china on us. When we brought it to Goodwill, they went “Parents or Grandparents?” And they told me this is like their tenth donation this week.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    91·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • OozingPositron@feddit.clEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      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.
    • duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Huh, I’ve only seen dining room tables that could expand using table leafs. The only time I didn’t have that was when I lived away in college because why would we have that if we just ate on the couch lol

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • Aljernon@lemmy.today
    3·
    6 days ago

    “I spent a life time making professional and political decisions that robbed the younger generations of the same prosperity I enjoyed and just can’t wrap my head around the fact that they can’t physically fit huge heirloom furniture into their tiny living accommodations”