Only Used When It's Needed

I've been trying to simply things at Linderhof

Less things to clean!

So I can have more time to play!

The living room - before:

There's a table next to the right wing chair

With a lamp and "stuff" on top.

I moved that out

and now the south part of the living room looks like this:

The two wing chairs flanking the fireplace

Looking more like a pair

Than two singles

And I like that look!

The north part of the living room

Has the "comfy" chair

(the beige one that Doogie is on)

And another antique side chair that we've had "forever"

We can seat eight in the living room

(if three sit on the sofa)

without bringing in any extra chairs

And I like that

But when you have company

Whether it's company for dinner

or like last night, when The Cookbook Book Club came

there are drinks and nibbles

And we don't like to have our guests do a balancing act!

In one corner by the fireplace is this English curate (or muffin stand as they're sometimes called)

folded, it takes very little room!

And in the other corner, a little tilt top table

The top a perfect size for a cup and saucer, a glass of wine and perhaps an appetizer plate.

They stay in their corners, until we have company . . . 

Then the bigger one is beside the comfy chair

So a guest can set down their wine, their cocktail, their coffee

And the little one goes beside the wing chair

With it's three theirs, there's room for a cocktail, a wine glass and an appetizer plate!

They're easy to dust even back in the corner

They don't have "stuff" on top (to dust)

and I think the living room looks larger without the extra tables.

It solves a sometime problem

Without being an all time pain.