eating at the palace

it was inevitable. days (nay, weeks) of no sleep, frustrating and long work schedules, moving...we were bound to fight. i have to say, i'm proud of us for keeping it minor and for only have one (1!) argument. it was over the dining room table, or should i say, banquet hall, that takes up the entire first floor of our house. needless to say, the table is rachel's. needless to say, she is very attached to said table, though it is an ikea table. that they still sell.

so our living room is amazing...it's floor to ceiling windows, three stories up from the ground, yet one floor below the front door amaizingly enough (btw have i mentioned how much i LOVE our bridge?!?) and still TWO floors away from the sky deck and loft space. our house is like a piece of art. i love it. some hate it. art.

ok. so this particular floor has a living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and built-ins in the hallway. everything is open. Rach's dining room table, once set up, takes up the entire room. it's the first thing you see when you come down the steps from the front door, and i think the first thing you should see should be the windows and the angles of the house.

so it's set up, and my antique armoir doesn't go, and i am HEARTBROKEN over it, but i tell her that i will sell it. i also tell her, in my 3 am delerium, that i hate the room and everything that's in it. she got very upset about the table, and things escalated to a point where i told her that the room made my skin crawl and i was not living in a room i hated on the off chance that 15 people wanted to come over for dinner. mature.

so, the table is going. i mean really: does one need to seat so many? i feel bad, cause rach wants to be able to seat everyone she knows around one table...but i told her if that happened once a month, i would have to look at that banquet table for a queen 350+ other days of the year for our family of TWO and it would frustrate me. we're still not over it. i mean, i am selling an $1100 antique armoir and i'm not bitching, so i don't understand the attachment to a $299 table. women.