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Nov 07, 2023

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AN interior designer has revealed the dining room furniture she would never buy.

AN interior designer has revealed the dining room furniture she would never buy.

She said that many of the options look good but they're just that — pretty, not practical.

Julie Jones (@juliejonesdesigns) has over a decade of real-life experience in residential design.

She is a certified interior designer based in California and offers virtual design consults for her online audience.

In a TikTok video, she laid out the exact dining room furniture she would never buy for herself, no matter how aesthetically pleasing it might be.

"The first one might be hard to hear because they can look lovely. They are not super practical and that is the dining banquet," the content creator said.

She said that if you are not sitting at the end of the banquet table, you are inconveniencing people every time you have to get up.

"I don't really recommend them. Unless there's only one or two people in the home using it," she added.

In addition, when discussing impractical furniture, she also doesn't recommend dining benches.

"Nothing like straddling the middle seat of a dining bench and trying to swing your leg back in," she explained. "It also doesn't help your posture in any way, shape, or form."

The main reasons why she would use them are for kids or for hosting a large gathering, but she said that she doesn't have those uses for it right now.

Many people agreed with the blonde woman's design tips.

"My in-laws have a banquet dining table and it makes Thanksgiving awkward as hell when we want seconds," a viewer commented.

"THANK YOU! For years my mind has been boggled why people seem to love these when they’re so impractical. I feel seen," a fan agreed.

"Also I have seen SO many little kids fall straight backward off a bench cuz they forget they were on a bench," another shared.