Another Living Room Vignette (AKA Ode to the Thrifted Chair)
A few weeks ago I bought a chair from my neighbour for $1 at a yard sale. I’d been waiting a year to find the right chair to complete my vision for a corner of our living room, and though I’d had something else in mind, the price tag on this chair couldn’t be beat. Greg would only agree to the chair if he could varnish the wood and paint the legs yellow to match the table we made last month. Though I loved the scratched green paint and worn wood, I was game for the compromise. Et voilà! I brought Sally the sock monkey out for the occasion. The painting is by Ashley G, AKA...
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Last summer we opened up the wall between our living room and what’s now kind of like a sub-living-room, or a den. Our 90-year-old Craftsmen bungalow feels much more airy and open now, and I’ve enjoyed the excuse to redecorate these two front rooms (and no, I don’t mean to imply that we’ve actually done anything with the “new” room yet). The living room is the room you enter when you come into the house through the front door, and I’ve always wanted to put a small table near the entrance so we’d have a convenient place to keep our keys and...
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