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Comments (37)Renaissance Kitchen and Home: Thanks for your response. The real reason the were are moving is 1. I have retired and find I have way too many properties, The second is that I dearly love old classic homes and we purchased one approximately 10 years ago and I have been restoring and renovating it back to it's heritage of 1850, for ten years. It is a gothic revival brick completed in 1850, has a beautiful courtyard at the rear of the property and another on the south side of main house. the house and all of its original woodwork has been restored back to it's heritage. The house is a bridal house. marked with wedding band and wedding Vail in the bridge-board above the entrance. There is also a summer kitchen that I plan to restore but have only recently started on it. We love the charm of this home and we are moving into it. It's finally ready. I have attached a picture just for reference. SO to put it plainly we want to live in the old 1850. It has become a labor of love. AS far as our present home, it is not without its own charm, but the land truly make the property. It is a two story colonial, wooded lot as I said and with a small pond. The woods are heavily stocked with deer and pheasant. Fortunately or unfortunately nothing is really selling in our area. Nothing is for sale, no foreclosures. Most are new houses, with nothing less than a basement theater room. Not sure about the renovation yet. Certainly some will be done. It just has to be, I do all the work myself, so cost to renovate remains reasonable. myrns has hit on the head though, it is an 80's house, it has four bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, and all 8ft ceilings. It has a second story deck off the main bedroom and an attached 2 car garage. The land is dividable. I have had a surveyor investigate the possibility of splitting and she advised she could split it in half or divide it into four lots and all meet local zoning requirements. Any thoughts, I have had some great comments,...See MoreDo you have a formal dining room? Is it still a dining room?
Comments (78)Have one but it was only used once in 8 years. We eat in the kitchen and informal "nook" area, the space that's between the kitchen & family room. Now the formal dining/living (30x25 combined. No walls open space with 25' ceilings) room has my Bowflex weights and elliptical and bench. While the living room has my Klipsch Bell's, Turntable & Marantz receiver. The exercise area is used daily now whilst listening to GREAT music. Actually when I think about it that area never had that "feel" of formality. Just a big open space and hardly intimate to me. Pic is from top of the stairs off to the left of the loft....See MoreDining room or combo dining room/sitting area
Comments (6)Try this. Keep table same direction, but move it away from FP , and back a little towards wall with furniture, move that furniture down as well. Move that one plant by doorway either to opposite side of doorway, or onto top of stair step, or mice it to top of step in other side by door. Take one other plant and set it on the step lower than where you put the first. Two plants together looks better than just one. Take the shutters out unless you just have to have them, in which case, move to other corner. Put your ficus tree over where that small chest is sitting. Use the small chest between your two chairs as a drink table. Get a nice torche lamp to go in that corner. You don't want to sit in a dark corner. You don't have any overhead lighting, so if you can get a lamp for left side,on top of FP. Stuffed chairs will be too much. Unless you go with rounded,small slipper chairs. You do not want any furniture too close to FP. I think a rug would look great,and protect your wood floors as well. At the very least get those little cap/rubber fivers for chair legs. They help your chair move ssmoothly and nit scratch the floor. With a rug you will have to get one heavy enough that it won't lift and bunch up every time a chair is moved. I'm not saying get white chairs, this is just to show styles....See MoreSmall dining room rug or no rug at all? Dining room wall decor HELP!
Comments (12)The rug is too small and any larger it will become a tripping hazard in the doorway. Also the pictures are too high and IMO too busy maybe just one large piece of art on the wall and use those for a gallery wall in a hallway and i agree try turning the table....See MoreFlo Mangan
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