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Europe here. Mostly agree with a couple of notable exceptions. I grew up in a home 90% furnished with heirlooms and there are two antique categories I'd never
by zemvpferreira 5y ago
Europe here. Mostly agree with a couple of notable exceptions.
I grew up in a home 90% furnished with heirlooms and there are two antique categories I'd never buy for my own use: Dining chairs and beds. They just don't have the size and robustness I find comfortable. Antique beds for two use about the same mattress size as I used for a single growing up. It's horrible. And I can't rock old chairs back and forth without disassembling them spontaneously.
Now day beds, consoles, tables? Cookware? That's all my jam. (except for silver cutlery, taste horrible)
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI'm 1.9 meters and have recently put on weight, several of my modern dining room chairs have disassembled on me spontaneously when I sat on them hard or rocked back and forth.
- zemvpferreira 5y agoI'm about the same dimensions and and have taken my share of chairs back to pre-assembly. Furniture in general is pretty crap. Paradoxically I've found IKEA to be one of the most honest brands out there. I can normally tell by their look how sturdy they are. My mom has one pink plastic IKEA office chair that's been a trooper. It's developed a stress fracture where the back meets the seat that goes at least 70% through the material from me rocking it and the thing is. still. holding. up.
- cafard 5y agoI'm about 1.8 meters, and destroyed an old dining room chair some years ago, when I weighed probably 85 kg. I do tend to sit down hard. I can't say how old the chair was--it was something that my wife had bought, probably at a yard sale, some time before we met.