The Dining Room

This buffet was in the huge hallway at the old house. 

We have had plans to move it to the yellow house for a long, long time.

We finally picked up the heavy thing on Saturday and put it on Joe's pick-up truck , The Saloon.
His truck smells like a saloon (cigarettes and desperate old guys), he bought it used and and we name all our vehicles.

I can hear you lovers of  white furniture out there saying "paint it." 

That is not happening my peeps.

If you saw the wood grain up close I think you might side with us. 

This does make for a lot of dark pieces in the dining room but remember most of the furniture in the big open room right beside here are white.

Now we have another place to store Joe's mother's china and our Ballerina dishes shown here.

We found Mr. Swan on Friday at a consignment store. We also bought his mate!

I think they need painting.
I cannot believe we bought something else to paint.
You know how I feel about painting ( I only paint every other Tuesday in cool month that is odd numbered).

For now our spooky little girl print stays.

We also have a new dining table gifted to us by Bob and Sue, Joe's brother and sister-in-law. 

They bought it at a garage sale for almost nothing and refinished the table top.

I asked her if I could pay her for the table and she replied " there is not enough money for all the work we put into that table." 

Well okay.

My bad.

This dining table is a much better fit in this space than the other one and we turned the table in a direction that makes sense for the way we live, opening the door all the time to get to the deck.

I am linking with Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday.

&

 Ann at On Sutton Place for Open House Party.

&
Debra at Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday.

grace surrounds us

Olive