Just out of curosity, how long has your husband had this propensity for breaking furniture?

OK Here is the dinning room as it is now except the little brown stool in front of the trunk is passed onto a friend and no longer there. the small half round table is on the left against the cabinet. There is a rectangle drop leaf on it on the back side. A very strange table but did work for the space until this new one comes along and cuteness wins out on this one. LOL I measured the little couch cushions and they are at 18 inches just as is but when some one=me sits on them the foam cushions drop to 14 to 15 inches. Too short for a table. This is why it needs another seat cushion added and I just happen to have one up in my loft. A simple fix. I also have a board to put between the cushions so they do not drop down as far. It is under the bottom cushion now because I was sleeping on this couch when hubby was sleeping in the living room, in his recliner not ones shown, when he got so sick. I needed all the soft I could get while sleeping. with the leafs pushed in this table is only 3 inches wider than the half round one that is there so it is a simple fix to just place the new to me table against the cabinets where the half round one is. If I need more clearance to get by I can then remove the narrow table from behind the little couch. It is just an old funky drop leaf. It makes a nice landing for things I need to take with me to town when I go so I remember them or to set some thing down when coming in the door like my keys and purse. So I like to have it there. Also holds a lamp and plant in window behind couch. But if it has to go it can. I am not married to it.

Hello, I am struggling with finding the right dining room table size for my room. I want a round table and I'm looking for it to fit 8 people. I'm torn between the 60in round with no leaf or a 54in round with a leaf. I would love the 60in round, I like the look of the solid table with no leaf but I'm afraid it would be too tight. It would leave 34.5 inches on each side from table to the wall and I will not have any other furniture in this room. It is a 10.9x10.9 room just shy of 11x11. would this be too tight?

Nothing is impossible, but it will likely involve compromises. 12' by 12' can either be a dining area or a sitting area, but not both at the same time. If you're going to want to use it for both dining and sitting on a regular basis then you'll end up spending a lot of time shifting furniture. I had a similar sized room that we used predominantly as a sitting area, but would convert to a dining area about once or twice a month. In order to do that I had to create a coffee table that would double as a dining table. I ended up building a 3' by 4' coffee table where the top folded out to a 3' by 8' dining surface. I then built legs that I could adjust from coffee table height to dining table height fairly easily. It would take about two minutes to convert from one to the other. The dining table was not particularly attractive, but nothing a table cloth wouldn't disguise. For chairs, we had two wicker sunroom chairs that are comfortable to sit in and could be used as dining chairs also. We had two smaller, quite light armchairs that could be moved to one side or out of the room altogether. And we would move other chairs from the kitchen to seat the other diners. That set-up worked quite well for us, as it was for occasional dining use and for sitting the rest of the time. It was not our main sitting area, so did not need a sofa or particularly formal furniture. As I say, it involved some compromises. Without making those compromises, as Patricia says, 'the answer is no'.