August 14, 2004

• 
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  I did something today, that for some reason, I have put off for 3 months!  The cabinets we bought a couple of months ago for the dining room have now been shimmed *200 year old wood floors are NOT level....whoda thunk it?* and I have filled the top three of the four shelves with china and crystal. It looks pretty! I elected to NOT put anything breakable on the lower shelves because of the rugrat factor. ;o) Most of my friends have very young kiddoes, and to alleviate the temptation I am not putting anything breakable down there. I think I will buy some silk ivy and put them in a cool Indian style container of some sort and fill the space up. The green will add a nice touch to the cabinets too. The cabinets flank a window that overlooks a 30 x 50 area that will one day be my cottage garden with a fountain, wisteria arbor, and roses.           And yes, the ceiling in this room IS metallic gold. ;o)    The china was all wedding gifts. Its a Noritake pattern, Stanford Court... that is no longer being made so if I want more than 8 places settings it is going to cost a blue fortune. ( Hate that! It is available on eBay and vendors like Replacements, LTD but man can it be expensive.    Our dining room is slowly coming together. Next month I am going to buy saris to make into curtains for the windows. I also want to put all my plants in pots that match the dining room *or paint/decorate the pots to match the room*. Gee, it only took being married for 14 years to buy our first real furniture! Lol     Here is the table we bought at a local outlet center, which is the same place we bought the cabinets from. It is absolutely gor-ge-ose let me tell ya! I lightened the image to try and show more detail on the table but it still isn't showing up because of the glare from the windows. It is a marquetry style wood veneer in diamond patterns.                 The saris will probably be a purple with gold on them to add another bright color to the room. We found the cabinet we want to replace the pie safe. The pie safe is was my husband's great great grandmother's and is an antique. I am going to put that in my guest bedroom and use it as a TV cabinet. It will fit great with the "shabby chic" style I plan to do in there.    This cabinet is from Pier One and will match wonderfully with the rest of the dining room furniture.. I love Pier One. LOVE IT.  <--This is the cabinet we are going to get from Pier One. I am going to take some of the sari fabric and line the inside of the cabinet doors so I can store *schtuff* inside and it can’t be seen.  This is the perfect last piece for the room!   Well, we are getting a mirror from Pier One for the room too, and chairs of course, eventually. The chairs that are in there are inexpensive ones from the dinette set we bought when we first moved in the house. They are barely 3 years old and are starting to break already. Its a shame because they really ARE pretty chairs.    This is the mirror we plan to get.from Pier One for the dining room.         I found chairs I like… <---I like the shape and iron in the chair, but I don’t know if the color will match the rest of the furniture and they probably aren't “dressy” enough though. I wish I had somewhere else to use them, but I don't. Ah well.   The other chairs we REALLY like are by American Drew, and were designed by Jessica McClintock:   Yep...totally different style, much more expensive but MAN are they gorgeous. GORGEOUS. One can dream… ) Ya never know…these may be the ones we wind up with. One a year for 8 years…lol But we could get them! I don't know if those are TOO fancy for the room. I need to find a middle one that I will fall in love with I guess.       Another recent purchase is chairs for the library table in the family room. We bought four of these. I have to make cushions for the seats, but they are surprisingly comfortable even without cushions. Just skip the shorts or miniskirts til I make cushions. *G* I will make cushions after we get the new loveseats for the room and that will give me a better idea of what color to get, between the sofas and curtains, etc.           Yes...more Pier One! I love Pier One. Did I mention that ? Since I rearranged items to the dining room cabinets, I also put the sets of Japanese and Chinese dishes we have into my breakfast room corner cabinet. Doesn't that cabinet match the room wonderfully? Would you believe it was given to me from friends? It was Jack's mom's cabinet that his dad had given her. They no longer had room for it and gifted it to me. It is a cedar cabinet and Jan had painted it quite a while ago. It looks like it was planned to match my breakfast room! Here is a picture of the other cabinet in the room that shows the wall color. Other than putzing about doing regular housework, taking care of website stuff for our homeschool group --- http://www.gracechristianacademybelair.com  and watching the radar to see what Charley would do, that was my day. Charley just brought light rain and cloudy skies through for us, thank the Lord. We actually had more and harder rain from Bonnie when it broke up the other night! I can't say that the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the coastal areas are faring so well. We should know soon as the storm is more than half the way past us. I pray that everyone that was in Charley's path has found safety and a dry place to lay their heads. Blessings!                Kathie

  
  

  • 11:40 pm
  • 3 Comments