A Victorian Breakfast Room

It's Monday and time for Met Monday hosted by Susan at Between Naps on the Porch. We've lived at Linderhof for a long time and so there is never many changes. However, every once in a while there is a change.

Labor Day weekend we went "junking" -- our term for visiting antique shops and flea markets. And in one of the stores, we did find a "find". . . .

Our breakfast room is a room of windows where we start out day and usually end our day. It is a recent (two year old) addition. It came together like a HGTV show -- a baker's rack and a table bought and upon completion of the room, we "loaded" them as well as accesories into the room. It took about half an hour.
The baker's rack was good for the plants that we kept in this room of windows but in summer it was rather bare -- the plants living outside.
So I moved my blue and white china out there -- with the intention of bringing back the plants come winter.

But then we found this wonderful Victorian piece. The mirrors strangely make the room seem bigger. And it makes it seem more like a Victorian breakfast room. And a place for an afternoon cup of tea (with teacups and teapots stored inside). A proper cup of tea -- with real napkins, china cups and saucers and scones and sandwiches. Plus I like the fact that the chandelier is reflected in the mirror.

The piece is painted black -- but it always has been -- which meant that even for it's Victorian style, it was probably a piece for the working family rather than living it's first life in a mansion.

It necessitated another trip (because naturally, we were in our small car) which is why we went to Branson. This winter, when the big floor plants are brought inside, I think it will have a definite feel of a Victorian conservatory.