A New Table!

My changes at Linderhof are small -- we've done the painting and floor refinishing, retiled the bath and painted the kitchen cabinets and put in a new countertop . . . . all many years ago. So our changes are minor -- new drapes, perhaps, in the bedroom, a new chair for the living room (and soon, I hope, new chair seats for the dining room).

Our latest change involves the living room and a fantastic new table that I bought . . . .

As you enter Linderhof, you see our bookshelves . . . .

I periodically change the books and bibelots around -- it's a way to change without changing!
But now I have a new addition. A wonderful mahogany tilt top table complete with birdcage. It's a 1940's Williamsburg reproduction and I got it for a "steal" considering what a new Williamsburg reproduction of the same table would cost today.

And I figured that the best place in the living room would be in front of the bookshelves.

Because. . . .
After we had our cozy dinner by the fire, we liked eating in the living room -- at least in winter -- with the fire burning -- and, perhaps, a good game on the television.

The last time we dined by the fire, we used our old tilt top table -- which is usually placed to the left of the wing chair on the right. And that table did work. It was a good size, was close to the wing chairs and could be moved quickly, except . . .
I had to move whatever "things" happened to live on that table at the moment. And where to put them -- the dining room table, of course!

That, to me, was too bothersome -- to move those things to the dining room table, move the tilt top between the wing chairs and after dinner do the whole process in reverse.

However, now I have this marvelous table. It's just sitting there waiting to be moved and all I have to move is the table.

So that we can enjoy this . . .

On cold and snowy nights!

A tilt top table was the only option. For I knew me and knew that had I gotten one of those marvelous game tables -- which would have fit well in that space, too -- with a nice (but narrow) flat top, I would have found great tablescapes to put on top. It's impossible to put anything on a vertical surface!

I'm in love with my new table -- it's a great piece and far prettier than my old tilt top. It makes an awesome statement as you enter Linderhof -- it's the first thing you see!

It's Monday and time for Met Monday at Susan's Between Naps on the Porch. Join everyone this Monday to see the transformations.