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Dale likes this table much bet­ter. Photo by Kevin Pieper

I love the tiny kitchen table we have in The Little House, but that wasn’t always the case. Scrounging for a small kitchen table was my first foray into second-hand shops when we built The Little House.

I found the per­fect kitchen table that was well, less than per­fect. It was one of those early 90s mod­els with the fake wood glued on (although the fake wood was peel­ing off) and it caught my eye because it had two match­ing chairs with the fake wood bot­toms and green backs.

My mom went with me to the thrift store and we didn’t think it was a bad pur­chase, but Dale hated the set, even when I bought a dark green table­cloth to cover its’ imperfections.

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