Maybe doesn't fit in with your decor, but it has sentimental value, or you just simply love it and don't care? Yesterday, as we were beginning the cleaning of the kitchen( spring cleaning), I took notice that we have a country style kitchen and yet the china cabinet is more a French Provincial style. When we remodeled, we picked cabinets that were built well and to fit into our country kitchen. The we added in the wood cook stove and old brick hearth, flooring that looks( fools everyone) like hardwood, it's linoleum. Recently we added a center work station made from a antique library table and we added a butcher block to half and granite to the other half with our collection of old ceramic bowls displayed on the shelves below and our well used 6 gal. redwing crock under the table. The only piece that doesn't truly fit in,is the china cabinet. This cabinet and matching table were given to us by Mike's mother, thus making them cherished in our hearts and besides the cabinet is just beautiful and displays our eclectic collection of wares, lovely. Inside the cabinet we have heirloom pieces, china, crystal, a collection of tea cups and saucers, as well as ceramic soup cups, chicken collectibles, etc.... When removing each piece Cortney and I reminisced about who gave it to us, what the family history was behind it and why is it that we don't use these items more often. It reminded me of a Little House on the Prairie episode, the one where Pa Ingalls worked refinishing wood work in trade for china dishes for Caroline. At the close of the show Laura speaks of how Ma wants them to be used everyday, not just on special occasions because special dishes are meant for special people. Cortney and I made a promise to each other, to remember to use these special pieces in our every lives, after all we are special, aren't we? I love antiques but also like our modern furniture, so our furniture collection is eclectic and you know what it works for us. We have a modern couch right next to an antique heirloom table( a chess,checkers table built by Mike's grandfather) we have modern glider rockers and on the opposite side sets my treadle sewing machine cabinet w/Singer machine inside. I guess, the point is that our furniture matches our lives, a little old and a little new and we need to remember the special benefits of each. Funny of the things we ponder when cleaning ;o) May your day be full of special blessings! |
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You know, I do have stuff that doesn't exactly go...but like you, it doesn't matter. We like it so we don't much care what other's think. I like the table in the middle of your kitchen that is half butcher block and half granite. And the cute little shelves underneath are really cute!...debbie
Thanks Debbie, you know that table is one of our most used "tools" in the house. Ranking right up there with the wood cook stove and our Maytag wringer washer. The granite was a piece give to us several years ago by a friend, who actually found it by a dumpster. She didn't know what to do with it but just couldn't see it thrown away. We've had it for several years with plans to make a table to use it on. Well, the table never go made, but I did find the library table at a antique store/market and it was just the right size and sturdy enough to hold the granite. We then decided it would prove useful to have half in butcher block, so had the granite cut to fit and a cabinet friend made the butcher block piece for us. The granite is a blessing when making rolled cookies, breads, pie crusts, etc....
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