Christine's Home and Travel Adventures: Furniture

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Velentine's Day Table, 2019

This is my first tablescape on this new old table that I just bought. I bought the whole set, round table and 7 chairs for $99. I painted them afterwards and you will see the newly painted ones in the last pictures.

We used to have a square table with 4 chairs here. If you have read my blog in the past, you would know that my daughter and her family live next door and that we alternate preparing dinners, so every other day, all seven of us eat here. The 3 grandkids used to eat on the kitchen counter but now we get to all eat together.

I used salad plates and soup bowls since we had shrimp toast, chicken noodle soup using bean noodles and cranberry rolls.

I bought the plate chargers from Wisteria many years ago.

For the kids, I used various heart plates.

Cherubs or should I say cupid, for napkin rings.

My centerpiece!

I alternated the cupid napkin rings with these red beaded ones.

This was our old dinette set that I am donating to Salvation Army.

This is the set that I just bought before I painted it. It is solid wood and in perfect condition. I told John that this set really belongs to us because I couldn't believe we were able to fit all these pieces in the back of our SUV. Also, when advertised, it said table with 6 chairs. The seller loaded the chairs while I rearranged them to fit in the vehicle and did not really count them but when we unloaded them, there were actually 7 chairs, so again, perfect for us.

Here is he set now after I painted 5 of the chairs, 2 more to go! I found a paint and stain from Rethunk Junque, that do not require sanding, so stained (dark walnut) and painted (linen) right in this area.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy Valentine's Day to all!

Thanks to the hostesses of the following memes that I am linking with too.

Cooking and Crafting with J & J. (Mon)

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Home Matters Linky party

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The Homemaking Party
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Christine's Dishing and Digging it
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Amaze Me Monday

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Make it Pretty Monday

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Weekend Link Up
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Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop
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Tuesdays at Our Home
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Inspire Me Tuesday
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The SCOOP
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Susan's Tablescape Thursday

http://betweennapsontheporch.net
Thursday Favorite Things
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Share your Style Thursday

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Katherine's Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

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Home Sweet Home
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The Fabulous Thanksgiving party
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Kate's Flaunt it Friday

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Friendship Friday Blog Hop
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Metamorphosis Monday

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Anything Goes" PINK Saturday
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BEST OF THE WEEKEND
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Refinishing Office Wall Unit and Guestroom 2/Office Combo Transformation

I am so relieved after I finished painting this wall unit. We moved it from MS and it sat on the back porch, since the garage is full of boxes that I still need to open and organize. I thought we couldn't use it here but I was able to fit 3 of the wall units. Now it is functional cause John and I can use our computers at the same time when we want to.

This is the original finish and as you can see, it came in 4 units and a table. But we downsized and we do not have a dedicated home office here in FL. so we couldn't fit all. I wouldn't have touched this furniture if we stayed in our Natchez home but our FL home is so much smaller and I want it to look brighter. We left one unit on the back porch in its original finish. I painted and distressed the 2 desks with hutches and a center unit for our files (bottom), TV and printer. There is no room anywhere for the table.

This is our second guestroom that doubles as our office before we moved more furniture from Natchez. You can see the desk across the bed. John and I had to take turns using the computer because the space is small. We couldn't even fit both of our desktops.

And the pictures below is how the room looks now.

Let me take you around the room. I had to move a lot of furniture around the house to be able to place what we moved from Natchez, MS. this past March. I could have sold that dark narrow cabinet but I need it to store my many photo albums. I am still debating if I should paint it also but for now, I will leave it as is. All the albums aren't in there yet, probably some still in boxes.

That colorful striped cabinet used to be in the dining room but I had to replace it with a French buffet moved from Natchez. This is the only space that I could think of moving it to.

Ahh! There is my blue for Blue Moday.