Too Much Time on the Couch!

Although I'm up and about -- cleaning and cooking and doing all of my household chores -- even with my new (just three weeks old) knee, I did spend too much time on the couch and in the chair in the living room -- staring at the mantle . . . . staring at the game table.

So since I'm now up and about -- without walker and cane, I did a bit of tweaking to the space. Paint and wallpaper and upholstery are major changes -- and they don't get changed often. But tabletops and mantletops are changeable . . . . and so . . . .

I did a bit of a change in our living room. And even though my time there is way less than it was -- I will once again be confined to the space when surgery is done on knee 2.

This arrangement had been there for a while -- far too long actually. I do think what I wanted changed the most was the artichoke tulipieres. They, for some strange reason, didn't look right.
So took everything but the clock away (for that mantle is it's home) and brought some big old Frederick Cooper candlesticks and some small bronze statues. Age and subject are uncertain but we've had them for a while -- originally they were on the mantle but were moved many years ago and for a long time have resided on the bookshelves in the living room.

I like the cleaness of the new mantlescape. You can see the sconces much better and I like the black flowing from one end of the mantle to the other.
The game table with an oriental bowl and some silver candelabra. Kept purposely clean for if we want to use it as a table, it's far easier to remove a couple of candlesticks and a bowl than a lot of things.

But it looked bare -- at least to the lady on the couch and in the chair and so, I decided to move things arounds a bit.

The mantle ginger jars are now under the game table. And there is blue and white on top as well.
The bowl stayed. It' a favorite oriental bowl -- I love the deep blue color. A cloisonne lamp, a blue and white Asian "pillow" and another old Estate find Asian bowl with potpouri inside.

It's a better greeting, I think, to those who come to Linderhof for it really is the first thing you see when the door is opened.

Will this table and mantle stay this way -- probably not -- for although I don't move furniture I do move tabletops around. That's how Linderhof stays fresh. And it's always nice to bring out old things to relove once again.

It's Monday so I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday. My changes are always small but they are changes. And if you don't change, you get stale!