Dining set

Changing the dining set has been on my mind since last year after the renovation. I had always wanted a SS dining table to match the kitchen. The Queen of Procrastinater 一直拖拖时间.  Checked local furniture shops’ website then realised all of them take their dining set from China!

Last week, looking at how badly the seat has become. Decided I better quickly do it now. Kindda recalled that I did upholster the Cellini dining chairs (when we stayed in Punggol) in Joo Chiat before and maybe can do the same to upholster the 4 chairs and couch. 

Messaged Mxxx for estimate quote to upholster, so that I can decide to upholster or just buy a new set. They promptly came back with their reply. $75/chair in either fabric or PVC, $280 for couch, transport fro and to my home $60 all before GST. In total that adds up to $697.60 😱. I can probably get a whole dining set with 4 chairs for $500++ from Taobao. I couldn’t check with Joo Chiat their price as they didn’t have any website. 

See how easily dirt collects on this material. I kindda gave up cleaning this couch since last year as I wanted to change it. 

All these chairs and table cushiony areas need constant cleaning. Finger marks, dirt etc.. I had to strength clean the chairs as they are all textured prints. See lah! Classy then make myself busy. So doing housework at home is simply not just vacuuming and mopping, lots of all these minor cleaning around the house here and there. 

If I had upholster the chairs, there’s no way I can upholster this table. Simply not worth it, so I didn’t bother to ask them quote for this. 

Che-che don’t like the table, she keeps hitting the base. I don’t hit the base. She did say I have bad taste, the set is so ugly. I think I have classy taste tho.

I like the new japandi tables but it doesn’t match my existing cabinetry. 

This table seems okay but I don’t like the 4 legs that makes the table look so cheap style. Che-che says she hates the one we have, huge base and then food drop below difficult to clean. I asked her if she did the cleaning, I’m always the one cleaning the house so why is she complaining? I do drag the table and chairs out to vacumn and mop every once in a while. 

I can’t select the colour of the legs. I don’t like to have any furniture black and gold except for the piano which we can’t do anything about it

Old folks like me think this is nice but I don’t like the glossy table top. If I wanted to change, I’d change to matte table top

See this? A dining table + 6 chairs plus shipping fees $312.24. No joke! 

Needed to save money so looked for chairs and the compartment couch. A search in Shoppee shows this chair  is selling at $111.82/pc

I only paid $56.26/pc

In total 4 chairs and one compartment couch costs $244.29

I just need to fix them. I don’t think I’m that lousy that I can’t fix the chairs right? Hope nobody falls 😂

I hope the new set can last us a long time. This chair only lasted us for 9 years before all the seam came undone and sponge visible. If not next time I shall just get IKEA plastic chairs 😂. Easy maintenance, then if abit wobbly can just throw. So easy….. 

Another thing I had always wanted to do was to do a wooden decking in PES. That would costs us average $3k? Gasp! 没有钱没有钱！