Jesse, I can't comment on style - I have not color sense - however I spent my childhood in a house with modern chairs like the ones Scrappy posted and those legs sticking out are a real stubbed toe hazard. It might not be an issue if you can push them all the way under the table or always wear shoes, but I have way too many memories of banging a toe against and chair leg that jutted out the way they do and hopping up and down and cussing.

Timelies all!

Another quiet Sunday here.

Jesse, I can't comment on style - I have not color sense - however I spent my childhood in a house with modern chairs like the ones Scrappy posted and those legs sticking out are a real stubbed toe hazard. It might not be an issue if you can push them all the way under the table or always wear shoes, but I have way too many memories of banging a toe against and chair leg that jutted out the way they do and hopping up and down and cussing.

Aw, poor little toes. Thanks for the tip, though!

But maybe those cool chairs with the lighter table? Contrasting with the medium-dark wood trim in the room? Oy. This is why I'm still using my grandmother's kitchen table as my dining room table.

I'm with bennet on splayed chair and table legs that project beyond the tabletop/chair seat. Ditto bed platforms with sharp corners that project beyond the mattress. Some of us have deficient spacial awareness and also don't pay attention to where we're going.

If that's not you, though, I love the lines of Scrappy's chair. And it looks comfy.

I have short legs, and my feet often don't reach the floor. And so, having the chair edge cut into the backs of my legs is unpleasant through a meal, unbearable if people sit and kibbitz post-meal. So I'm usually looking for a waterfall edge on a chair seat, to ease that sharp angle.

ETA: My house is mostly family pieces, from different vintages, or flatpack stuff, and the woods are...hem, an eclectic mix. Mixed woods don't bother me, but I know they do annoy some people. Just my two cents. I'm sure any of those choices would blend and look well together, Jesse.

Ditto bed platforms with sharp corners that project beyond the mattress. Some of us have deficient spacial awareness and also don't pay attention to where we're going.

I just live with the bruise on my shin.

My house is mostly family pieces, from different vintages, or flatpack stuff, and the woods are...hem, an eclectic mix. Mixed woods don't bother me, but I know they do annoy some people. Just my two cents. I'm sure any of those choices would blend and look well together, Jesse.

Because they aren't in my line of sight, I forgot about the light Ikea bookshelves I also have in there! I agree that whatever wood is fine together.

I am just going to make a decision and call it a day!

I did it! Now I have to clear my cookies so they don't follow me around the internet.

I still don't know if I'm working shift tomorrow or not. *If* the exercise does start tomorrow, (I don't know how it can with a 1 am vote, but no call has been made) question of whether we are keeping original staffing plan or shifting has not yet been addressed :{

My weekend so far: Friday morning I accepted an internal transfer to a very cool sister company while DH felt crappy and stayed in bed all day. Yesterday DH was formally diagnosed with flu, so I spent the rest of the day driving to every pharmacy in town trying to find one who could fill the kids Tamiflu prescription (and intermittently calling the pediatrician and the insurance company to get the prescription transferred) . The only place who had any in stock only had one dose left of the generic, so that was expensive. Today I decided to take the three healthy family members to see Coco again because good lord we needed a break, and on the way there I was pulled over for having an expired inspection (which I kind of knew about, I just hadn't gotten around to it yet). So I spent an hour finding the only car place open on Sundays and now I'm waiting for them to finish up.

And I'm hoping the reason I feel shitty is because Tamiflu has side effects and I'm exhausted, and not because I have the flu.

Good lord, Jess.

How do you feel about the job?