City Cottage Living Room Continued!!!!!

As promised.....

I will now continue the fast paced exploration of 

Kris's (my bidness partner) 

living room.....

Entering the room,

 this is what faces you.....

 (or me, as you can't enter the room, 

'cuz you don't know her.....)

Let me give you more of an overall, so you can see where we are....

Oops.....

I didn't take one, so if you look at the picture below, the chest is on the same wall as the pair of club chairs, just outside of the view in this shot...,,,,,,

Lets take a closer look at the chest.....

It's a gorgeous empire piece.

I like putting chests in living rooms, as they are great storage pieces, and make a good place to set a lamp.

Especially if they are tall, like this one, then the lamp is up higher in the room, and casts a soft glow.

Here's the arrangement on the top....

Another combination of auction finds and ebay.

You may be surprised to see some dogs.....

I found this lamp on ebay and had it rewired with one of my custom lamp shades.

Poor Kris, she saved money on the lamp, only to have it sucked out of her pockets when I gave her the bill for the shade.....

Remember, we met when she hired me to do this room.

Now I don't charge her nothin', but I made up for it in the beginning.....

Just one more bird to pluck.....

(Don't tell her I said that, though.)

The rest of the stuff on this piece are her finds that she snuck into the house when I go to Florida in the winter.

Just a few more dogs......

Here and there.....

Next to the chest are a pair of Gothic hall chairs.

Now comes the part after Kris and I became BFF's and she got me running around in circles at her beck and call.

SHE LOVES NEEDLEPOINT!!!!!

She has had me make all sorts of chair covers in her home.

On this pair of chairs, I designed monograms for both Kris and her husband, Keith.

Then I needlepointed them.

I am a REALLY good friend.......

 The bastards have different last names,

 because Kris kept her maiden name,

so of course, the monograms HAD to be different.....

At least both of their first names start with a K.....

Over the chairs are.....

MORE pictures of dogs......

the majolica plates are a brown and green version of the same water lily plates I've collected for my home in Florida.

So, that's it for today's report from the design trenches.

The weather is crappy, and I've already eaten my popcorn snack, 

so I guess I'll go back down to my dungeon basement, 

and put another coat of paint on some more chairs for my niece, Miriam.

Or maybe I'll just go watch TV!!!!!

Latah, Gatah

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