A Vermont Country Dining Room

OK, let's first deal with the last post's pictures.....

I was feeling a little under the weather, and this is just an example of how our brains can shut down.....

I knew that the picture below was over saturated with color, but I couldn't figure out how to fix it.

Now, you gots to realize, that this is something I know how to do....

This is something I do on a regular basis.....

This is something that my mind totally forgot.....

in my hour of not feeling so goodly

Soooooo.....

for those of you not familiar with PicMonkey.....

it's a sometimes free program on line that can do some good stuff to your pictures.

You have to pay a yearly fee if you want its advanced abilities, but it still offers a lot of stuff for free!!!!!

Soooooo.....

first is the shot that I edited while brain dead.....

This is what it looks like when I feel gooder!!!!

Here's a side by side, so you folks that still are not editing your pictures can realize what you're missing.....

I was able to correct the color.

It made me a much happier camper.

I really miss my mind when it goes away.....

Now it's not so much worse that the Traditional Home picture.

OK, enough about this issue.....

On to new stuff!!!!!

Let's go into the dining room.

There's so much to talk about in there.

I can probably get two or three days milked out of this room!!!!!

Traditional Home 2004
When I first started working on this house, Connie didn't trust my sense of scale like she does now.
She didn't realize that I am the wizard of scale!!!!!
When we found that reproduction hutch, I fell in love with it.....
But CONNIE was worried that it would feel too large and tall.
She's not that big, her head being not so far off the ground.....
(She's not short exactly, but she certainly ain't tall.....)
I've noticed that not so tall people
 (my niece Miriam is an example of this.....),
can prefer smaller scale things when I first start working with them.
Over time my browbeating tutelage kicks in, and they start going for bigger....
(anyway that's what I've deluded myself into thinking...) 

Where was I?????
Once again I went off on a tangent.....
Oh yeah, the hutch!!!!!
So, at first we just ordered the bottom, as a server.
And I went to work on her.
Cajoling, beseeching, imploring, rolling around on the ground begging...
and she finally caved relented, and we ordered the top too.
Then the problem was.....
WHAT TO PUT IN IT???!!!
I mean.....
It HAD to have a collection.....

June, my office manager, girl Friday (girl....HA!!!), all around helper outer and one of my bestest friends in the UNIVERSE, had been collecting brown transferware for eons.

Sooooo...

I got the idea from seeing it in her house.

She may even have suggested it.

Who can remember, I mean, this was 10 years ago.

I love the way it looks against the warm tones of the wood.

If I had room in my house for another collection, I would get me some of that.

But I don't......

OY, OY, OY

BUT DON'T YOU JUST LURV IT?????

That's it for today.

I wrote this late, and it's time to chillax for the night.

So on that note....

Latah, Gatah