THE
DINING ROOM
as we shall know it going forward was
initially the what was used as the Living room, here at Floor
One of The Estate. Because it is bigger, and directly connected
to the Kitchen, I am going to use it as a dining room. Here's
what it looked like back in January before my ownership.
The
nicest feature to this room is the tin ceiling.
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Since I had no
dining room furniture, this room was
the catchall room for the longest time.
I had
three cans of beautiful golden
harvest mustard gold harvest mustard
golden gold paint that were just calling my name!
Two
of the gallons were slightly different shades that I picked
up at Lowe's in their OOPS bin. I threw the two of them
together with a quart of gold paint I had from 1994.
Below
is the most delicious result!
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Why
do I say delicious? Because the color reminds me of McDonald's
Cheese! YUM! Also you'll notice that the beginnings of a dining
room are taking form with this hutch above. I love this piece
of furniture. I really didn't want another room with maple
furniture in it, but when I saw this solid maple, Pennsylvania
House hutch for $90 I just had to have it!
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On my hi-fi you'll
notice a new doily! It occurred to me that no proper Old Lady would
have such a piece of furniture without the proper PROTECTION and ORNAMENTATION!
I can't believe that I slipped and took 6 months to do this! I am
so ashamed :(
As
I look at all this furniture I realize how much of it was free..
the Hi-Fi, the table next to it, and the small 2-drawer night stand
were all found along the roadside. But my best buy to date is the
Dry Sink above. For this beautiful solid pine piece I paid $1.26.
Yes, that's right... one dollar and twenty-six cents!
Now
if I could draw your attention to the Before & After
pictures of the beautiful pothos plant below. This was a
four-dollar find at the new home of the Goodwill in Rocky
Hill, CT. Again, Mrs. Denise Beaudoin-Brown scoffed at my
purchase of this beautiful, pure plastic pulchritude!
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Now,
all I need is a dining room table and some chairs to complete
this room!
One interesting thing in here is that when I was putting in the
new kitchen flooring, I saw that underneath the berber carpeting
(that I hate) is oak floor! Someday when I am feeling up to it
I am going to take a good piece of the carpet up and see what
it looks like under there.
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Autumn 2005 Update < <
Here's a picture I took back in the spring of the curtains I
picked up for my dining room, oh... and finally a picture of my
dining room table! Still, something is missing here...
Ahhh...
what could that something be? I think it is probably my fabulous new
(for me) avocado semi-shag pile rug!
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The
top of the hutch was FAR too bare. It was almost embarrassing!
Well I have remedied that thanks to Saver's in Springfield
Mass, where I found a tone of 100% Genuine Plastic Foliage!
(The
witch is in the milk can because it's October as I write this!)
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I
had to put books behind the plant on the hutch because Ms.
Jane Wilhite likes to jump up on there and pick the Spanish
moss out of the arrangement. She has no respect for pure Early
American Colonial Style!
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Ms. Jane
Wilhite looks on in wonderment at the magnificent beauty of
my GREATEST FIND ever! A 100% Genuine Plastic 3.5' high tropical
plant! Even the woodenesque bucket it is in is PURE PLASTIC!
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Summer 2007 Update < <
Early
in 2006 I acquired Grandma's old Singer sewing machine. (Acquired
= took it from their house while they were wintering in Boynton
Beach, Florida) During the end of the Summer in 2006, Jane and
I got busy sewing!
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Jane
and a piece of fabric when I was sewing. Always such a big
help!
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At
first I had been thinking that not a lot had changed over
the past year and a half here in the dining room. But as I
alook at just picture I realize this is not true at all.
Sometime
during the summer of 2006 I ripped out the hideous 80's style
ceiling fan and replaced it with this brass chandelier. The
lighting is so much better now!
Due
to traffic on I-84 one day in August 2006, I took secondary
roads to get back from WestFarms to downtown Hartford during
my lunch hour. En rotue I passed the Sal's. Of course I had
to go in.... and there in the back of the store was exactly
the style of corner hutch I had been looking for!! The best
part was that it was only $70!
I needed
the corner hutch to store even MORE dishes that I got! The
blue ones that you see I have inheirited from Aunty Ro! They
are "Currier & Ives" that were both hers and
my great-grandmother's.
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The
full-sized replica of a spinning wheel is new too! I fought
with the girl at the East Hartford Sal's over this and ended
up having to pay full price for it! $30! I am glad they have
since gone out of business!
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Here,
Jane takes inventory of the set of 60's Atomic dishes under
my hutch that I've never even used :(
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I
just keep cramming more and more stuff into all the corners of my
house! :(
In
the corner is Gram's sewing machine with the cabinet closed up.
I
won a few ebay auctions for plastic flowers. I now am getting rid
of any traces of silk foliage! I can't even tell you what I paid..
you'd be so dissapointed in me :(
I've
been keeping both leaves in the dining room table since there's
not much point in my taking them out since I have to put them back
in whenever I have the family over for dinner. It takes up more
space, but I don't think it looks too bad.
My
Mom really liked this little table that she found in Torrington,
CT. I sort of hmmmm'ed and hawed about getting it. Since it's so
unique, she felt I needed to get it, so she bought it for me! I'm
really not sure what it is. The legs of it reminded my mom of something
you'd use to spool spun yarn from a spinning wheel.
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July 28, 2007
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