One of the key challenges we faced when buying our home was our dining room furniture. My wife and I seem to fall into a very rare category of people who own formal dining furniture yet don't own a 5000 square foot house. In Wisconsin, very few "middle class" homes have formal dining rooms. So, we bought a house with a living room and and sitting room, and converted the living room into the dining room.
Which doesn't leave a lot of room for Christmas trees. Or couches.
When Christmas comes, we rearrange our dining room and put the tree there. The kids love it because they get to see the tree while they eat, and it gives us some amount of control as they aren't supposed to play in the dining room. Unfortunately, moving all the chairs around provides the opportunity to notice things that might otherwise remain unknown.
Like the fact that a couple of the rarely used chairs seem to have somehow been abused to the point of needing repair. I have no idea how they got that way. But I do know they are unusable. When a chair starts to "wobble" just because you touch it, things have obviously gotten loose and/or broken.
So, there goes a Wednesday night. On the plus side? Mrs. Pol didn't have any planned events. That allowed me the time to start disassembling chairs. The first of two in dire need of repairs was completely disassembled, reglued, and put back together. We'll see how it works out, and I'll repeat the process on the second one if everything holds up the way I hope. If not, it's off to the hardware store to get a few things to further reinforce the structure.
Not bad for having never built or repaired a chair in my life.
I guess what they say is true. If you can complete an Ironman, you CAN accomplish anything.
Now, who wants to volunteer to sit on my chair?
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