Another Scorcher

It is HOT outside this week. Another scorcher. Remember this commercial?

Luckily, due to the new blower we got on our AC/Furnace (is it weird that it’s the same unit?) last winter when the heat went out… the AC is much more efficient than last summer. So we don’t need to call Sears. I wonder if that phone number still works…..

Table Inspiration

I keep coming back to this table we sat at in this small coffeeshop in Boston last year. I took a picture of it because it was so awesome.

I inherited a drop-leaf table about 3 or 4 feet in diameter with cute legs (wink wink) but a badly water damaged top. I’m thinking of either painting it a crazy color or doing some kind of striking design on top, and this bee table is a major inspiration for me right now, partly because they aren’t as “trendy” as birds (also beautiful but getting to the point of played-out) and because they remind me of France–Napoleon had a major thing for bees and they’re all over the place in Napoleonic decor over there.

Now, I’m not that artistic, so… we really shall wait and see.

Sitting Area

So, the whole “dining room” thing didn’t work out so well. Actually, after the last time I posted about my aspirations of sitting down and eating at the dining table, the table leaves got folded down, table was shoved in the wall, and the room was turned into a workshop for refinishing the coffee table (you saw it in yesterday’s post). I’d show you pics of the room in workshop mode, but as you also learned yesterday, my pictures got erased. So no photo.

Anyway, now that the blue couch and black coffee table have been replaced in the dining room, I know you were all dying to know what became of them. We didn’t get rid of it; the set now lives in the dining room.

The blue looks pretty nice in there, don’t you think? In fact, I think it’s much nicer to have two sitting areas–one in front of the TV (we’ve been watching a lot of Scrubs and Hoarders on Netflix) and one where I can read my plethora of magazines. Doug was overjoyed to evict all the magazines from the living room. The dining room table is now shoved against the opposite wall (for those of you that can picture it, the wall to your direct left as you enter the room). One table leaf is up and my laptop has found a home. I’m blogging from it right now.