My new furniture

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My furniture arrived yesterday (finally). When the furniture store tells you delivery in 6-8 weeks, figure 10-12 to be safe. The picture below is the living room. I decided to make this a formal room. I moved the TV out and centered everything on the fireplace. I went with a 1940's style couch (my house was built in 1940 - see next picture) and four recliners. Please excuse the ladder and mess on the built-in bookcase, I'm still arranging and clearing the room. The 1840's style parlor stove in the background was my only heat source in college. As you can see, the cats really like it.

 

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Livingroom 2

Another picture showing the couch. Working early 1920's Columbia Grafanola in the corner. The end table is a working 1940 Philco Tabletop Radio/Turntable Combination sitting on a 1920's ornate decorative table from the Edgewater Hotel, Chicago (gangster hangout, now a parking lot).

 

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TV Room

This is where the TV is. The room is more rustic. I made the coffee table and the gun cabinet. The refrigerator was going to the garage, but my "decorators" (my friend's wives, who hated the fridge), decided it would look good in this room. They are going to make a decorative cover for it. No more going to the kitchen for a beer during the game...

 

[whirlcool]

The room looks nice and Traditional, which is our favourite furniture style. This is very nicely put together. One suggestion though, you need something that will add height to the room on the window side. Maybe taller lamps?

 

[dalangdon]

A cozy for the refrigerator?

It all looks very nice. Congratulations on the new look.

 

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TV room 2

I am going to make a low pedestal style enteratinment center to put the electronics in. The TV will sit on top of it. The blue recliner is leaving, so the room won't be as crowded when I'm done.

 

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Whirlcool

I agree. I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet. BTW - the picture actually exaggerates the height problem. I'm also going to install a shelf above the window to display my beer stein collection from my two trips to Germany, maybe that will help with the height problem.

 

[appnut]

Allen, you've done a wonderful job. I particularly like the coffee table, but I've seen similar, it's just purse Texas!!! and I love it. Your house reminds me of the first house my sister bought in Dallas in the early 80s, a 19o47 or 1948 3 bdrm (orignally 2) 1-bath house.

 

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Appnut

I originally wanted a house in the country that would be completely Texas. I couldn't find anything that I could afford, so I bought this house in town. It is way to formal and elegant for the Texas rustic look, so I decided to do one room like this since I already had the table and gun cabinet. I have Texas and Aggie wall art to hang, just haven't gotten to it yet. I have family in the Hill Country and I would still like to find a house in that style when I retire.

 

[petek]

I really like those wing chairs and am looking to get one for our new living room as well which is rather formal with a big white mantle. I especially like that picture of the ship on the river, can I have it!!! We're very close to the St.Clair river and can go watch all the freighters plying up and down between Lake Huron on our end down to Detroit at the Lake Erie end. You score points for not having your pictures nailed up near the ceiling as well..,not counting the two over the bookcase which are ok there. It drives me crazy when I see how some folks hang pictures on the wall that you have to crane your neck to see them LOL.

 

[frigilux]

Beautiful! The pussycats sure seem to be giving the new furnishings a big 'thumbs up', LOL!

I have to get on the stick and buy some decent furniture. I have the couches, chairs and dining set of a college freshman. Somehow, I keep buying new appliances and iPods and video cameras, instead.

 

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Petek

The wing chair recliners are made by Lane. They have claw feet which really adds to the formal air of the room. The painting of the ship was done by my dad. The setting for it is the ship channel behind my house. I firmly believe in hanging paintings at eye level, except when hung over large furnishings or built-ins as accents (there is a third painting over the bookcase that is hidden by the chandelier in the photo).