3 posts tagged “condo”

Here are some pictures of the new furniture in the living and dining rooms, finally! I just completely rearranged the furniture in the living room so was motivated to take pictures.

First, the dining table, complete with naughty kitty taking a nap on top

Dr1

Dr2

Here's a closeup of the buffet:

Buffet

Now the living room. I moved the couch to create kind of a boundary between the dining area and living area. Now it faces the piano. This is now the view when you enter the room:

Lr1

I'm thinking of getting a console table to run along the back. I like having the chair in the corner; it is a good reading spot yet close enough for conversation. The TV is along the wall on the left; I still have to get a stand for it, as well as bookshelves.


Here's the couch from the other side:

Lr2

Finally, window treatments. Here is the fabric for the living and dining room curtains:

Curtains

The bedrooms will have a cream linen shade with two vertical bands of hyacinth blue silk almost, but not quite, the same shade as the bedding. Here are the swatches against the bedding:

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Next week: new bedroom furniture and a new coffee table!

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Ten days ago, literally at the moment at which I was coming down with the flu, Crate and Barrel delivered a new, non-defective hallway cabinet. I didn't have a chance to take a picture of it until tonight, when I saw Ulysses adopting it as a new place to sleep. (One problem with not having much furniture is that the kitties kind of have a shortage of sleeping places right now, so they find them where they can.)

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One drawback of Ulysses sleeping on it is now there is cat hair all over the top...

I was going to write a blog post about how happiness is having a hallway cabinet that you can leave stuff on top of and store stuff in, but sadly, Crate and Barrel failed me somewhat: the driver was unable to put the cabinet together due to a flaw in the manufacturing (the holes in the front of the drawer and the mirrored pieces for the handle failed to line up), so they couldn't leave the cabinet.

But I DO have a lovely rug and chair:

Chair_rug

And, boy, am I glad I picked a smallish chair by modern furniture standards; even this chair looks big in my living room!

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