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under the table and dreaming...

an area rug

5 votes

just the floor

8 votes

metsmarathon Sep 11 2013 11:48 AM

of rugs. or more specifically, dreaming up possible reasons why the under-table dining room rug has become a thing. is this a new thing? has it been around for a while? i see it in magazines and on home shows a lot, i guess, but how long has this really been going on? did our parents have rugs under their tables? and why? why would you have a rug under your table? as a parent of a young child, and soon, many many more (okay, two, but that's a relatively big number), i cannot conceive of a positive outcome that can result from having a rug under the dining room table, and especially under only the front feet of hte chairs in the dining room. doesn't it feel like you're constantly going to fall backwards? doesn't that make it so hard to scootch your chair in when you sit down? and scootching back after a meal, too? with a kid, it would just get so awful and dirty under there that the rug would require constant laundering and cleaning and resolving and oxicleaning that it would never actually be under the table because it would constantly be being cleaned. is it a statement of gleeful childlessness? a cool thing you saw in a magazine that looked like a good idea at the time, and now you feel too invested in it to change? or are there advantages i'm not seeing? am i alone here? help me to understand! i want to understand. maybe i'm missing out... maybe my house is hideously unstylish without it. i just don't know! ...and thank you to ceetar for laying bare his dining room to my unerring scrutiny.

themetfairy Sep 11 2013 11:54 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

I don't think it has "become a thing." I've had my house for 18 years, and have always had a rug under the dining room table. I'm wracking my brain trying to remember whether I had the rug when we lived in the City. Why do we have it? I dunno. I guess we thought it looked nice. I cannot recall any rug-related falling or other issues. It doesn't feel all that much different from when we eat in our rugless kitchen.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 11 2013 11:56 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Tommy Glavine has not one but two dining rooms. A formal one and a not-formal one. And he's got rugs under both dining room tables.

themetfairy Sep 11 2013 11:58 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Since he has them, I'll get rid of mine immediately....

Benjamin Grimm Sep 11 2013 12:05 PM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Let the kids eat in the kitchen.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 11 2013 12:34 PM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Undertable rugs? No way, man.

Ceetar Sep 11 2013 01:29 PM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Had one in the apartment, mainly because of a 80% of the floor has to be rugs rule with noise. We moved a new one under the table in the house. I don't know why. Ask my wife. I'd like it to be a little bigger (And it is when we shrink the table) so that you're on the rug and not on both. It's probably good to keep from overly scratching the floor sliding the chairs in and out and jostling the table when you bang your fists down to emphasize a point. (And even half on, you're not going to be sliding it on the floor.)

Edgy MD Sep 11 2013 02:04 PM Re: under the table and dreaming...

I have a humongous kitchen/dining area hybrid. Covers like 60% of my ground floor. My living room is no bigger than the one in the tiny house I came from, but come on down to my kitchen, baby. Being connected to the kitchen seems to argue against formality, so no rug for you.

Rockin' Doc Sep 11 2013 09:44 PM Re: under the table and dreaming...

No area rugs anywhere in the house. I love the natural look of wood. My wife and I agree that the oak hardwood floors are too beautiful to cover up with a rug. Though I must admit it takes some care and planning so not to scratch up the floors with chairs.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 11 2013 10:42 PM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Worked a day or two by myself to restore the pet-urine-soaked floors in our rental when we moved in a few years ago, including a couple of hours with a power sander and buffer, and a couple of hours more hand-varnishing. Still occasionally polish the stuff from time to time, Minwax and all. And, dudes/dudettes, I am NOT that handy. I'll be damned if I'm putting a big-ass faux-Persian on that parquet now.

Ceetar Sep 12 2013 06:43 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

My wife to me during dinner last night: "This rug really isn't wide enough for this table."

cooby Sep 12 2013 07:27 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Ceeter's right; it's to keep the chairs from scratching the floor. Plus a rug can really pull together the decor of a room. What I am dreaming of is pulling up our wall to wall and having our wood floors restored when we get the $$$.

Edgy MD Sep 12 2013 08:24 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Cooby's similarity score with the Dude similarity score just went up.

cooby Sep 12 2013 08:32 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

I hope you don't mean Len Dykstra

Edgy MD Sep 12 2013 10:12 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 12 2013 10:15 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

I tend to picture her takin' 'er easy for sinners, anyway. If you're looking to keep your pristine floors scratchless, there are better ways than an area rug under a table. Like, say, buying decent chairs, or attaching feet to the legs of the ones you've got.

Mets – Willets Point Sep 12 2013 10:39 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Edgy MD wrote: Cooby's similarity score with the Dude similarity score just went up. Cracking up here.

cooby Sep 12 2013 10:50 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Whew!

Ashie62 Sep 13 2013 10:21 AM Re: under the table and dreaming...

Old fashioned wall to wall shag carpeting in this biosphere..