new furniture

This is how the dining half of my great room looks today. You might notice there's a big difference from last week. I finally scored on Craigslist and this wonderful hutch is now MINE!

I was so excited to get it in here! But I could use a little advice from minds more creative than my own. I like the toile background the previous owner added, but it's a little busy for my theme. (Oh, gosh, I have a theme, even! woohoo!) I'm not sure you can see it - maybe in the larger view just click the pic) - but I put a mirror tile in the bottom left corner to see how that might work. I like it, but that would take a lot of tiles and not fit perfectly and be a lot of work and expense. I thought maybe that mirrored look contact paper stuff. But the mirror thing might just get to be a bit much on all 3 shelves. So maybe plain white is the way to go... but then I'd have to match the colour of the piece and... Ideally, I'd like to do something that will cover the blue print, but not permanently. I might, after all, want it back some day.

Also, I have those little doors with glass inserts on either side - just testing the look - but can't think what to do with them. I'd love to frame them in on either side of the opening between LR and FR, but that's way too major a deal for us. Oh, but I'm getting ahead of myself here. First, I need to decide what to do with that space on each side of the hutch. I'm thinking a nice set of pole lamps from Kirkland's Home (my favourite place to shop for such things).

Duller is pretty happy with the new look, as well. I wonder how happy he'll be when I tell him we now have to start looking for a new table and chairs coz these are too dark. 8-}

On another note, I've been trying to comment on y'all's blogs, but my usual dial-up speed (or lack thereof) is starting to seem like Indy... it's been impossibly slow the past few days. I'll try the very few tricks I know and hope it gets better. Meanwhile, just remember I still love y'all.

Have a JESUS-filled day! ^i^