New table!

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We finally replaced the old table from our apartment days!  So excited that I can now seat up to EIGHT comfortably (with the table and bench leaves and the table turned the other way) instead of THREE comfortably.

Old table:



New table:



For those of you who helped me with the garage rearranging, you won't be shocked at where the old table ended up:



On the plus side though, CL buyers came by for the shelving while the table was being delivered.  At least I got rid of something out there before adding more?   We've had the table listed for a couple of months, but no bites.  Not a lot of resale value in Pier One I guess.  The IKEA shelving was gone almost immediately with multiple potential takers and made me think we should have asked for more!  Can't complain though since they came with the house.

In other news, we have only one working cable outlet in the garage.  I have no idea what all the other 4 cable outlets are doing out there.  So I am severely limited in my rearranging.  Boo.  I'll take better pics of the new layout sometime when I have a chance to clean up out there and have some daylight.  Also after I convince DH that I really do need new bedding out there.  He remains unconvinced for now.

[spankswife]

I love it!! I am really digging the bench too!

[ssmjlm]

Looks great and I love the fixture in your DR, is it original?

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ssm jlm--All our original fixtures were long gone when we moved in. Luckily we have an antique store semi-close to us that specializes in restoring old fixtures. The DR fixture is from there. It's also a bit off center. Not sure what to do about that, especially since we plan on using the table in this position for everyday, but then rotating and expanding it when we have company. It's not really right for either position, but I'm also not sure where it SHOULD go.

[FoxInFiji]

Love it! I think the light looks fine. It's more or less centered in the space. If you moved it all the way over the where the table is you would need a second light on the other side of the room...is that area just a walkway or is there something else there?

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I do have a buffet there now. When we redo the kitchen, I hope to do a built-in pass through cabinet next to the kitchen door and ditch the buffet. Also, if I moved it to center it on the table now, I'd be stuck with it looking really, really stupid when I want it to look it's best (when we have company). Definitely won't do anything with it before we do the kitchen remodel and see where that leaves the door/table.

[FoxInFiji]

Oh yes that's right! We talked about that when we discussed your kitchen layout. I'm slowly building a picture of your floorplan in my head...

[sjh722]

It looks great!

I love all of your original trim, too. Gorgeous!

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Jan 24, 2013 10:55:56 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

It looks great!

I love all of your original trim, too. Gorgeous!

You have no idea how good it is to hear that.  I spent hours stripping approx. 33 layers of paint off all that trim.  When it was white, you barely even noticed it.

[sjh722]

It was well worth your work! It's so sad to cover up trim like that with white paint.

We have ugly 70s ranch trim in our latest house and I painted it all white and it was a ton of work. I can't imagine doing that much sanding/painting work to trim that is actually attractive in the first place!

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I know, but I think painted trim was all the rage in the 20s also. I can appreciate white trim in a lot of homes, but not this one. A fun tidbit: one layer was painter's tape blue. I do not want to meet the person who thought 10-inch baseboards in painter's tape blue was a good idea. Well, really any baseboard in that color. There was also beige, mint green, pink, etc. I think they all must have had lead poisoning from the old paint or something.