Our new Bassett kitchen table and chairs arrived last week. After living with the new furniture for a while, Diane pronounced the new set acceptable. The tulips are the arrangement Patrick and Katie sent Diane for Mother’s Day. Diane took this photo with her iPhone. The next planned acquisition: a new refrigerator for the kitchen. But that’s a month away at least.
Very nice, George.
Prashant, thanks for your kind words. Diane is pleased with the new kitchen set. I’m still getting used to it.
Yes, really nice – though it looks a bit empty to me!
Where do you keep all your stuff?
Or is this just the “nice corner” of the kitchen that you’re showing us, not the cluttered side? 🙂
Wolf, this is a “staged” picture. Trust me, we have piles of “Stuff” on the new kitchen table now!
Very nice–but I can relate to the stuff on the kitchen table. Right now we have everything from the coffee maker to dog medicine to drill bits on our kitchen table. As soon as school’s out (May 23), kitchen cleanup is at the top of the list.
We’re currently looking for new bath towels (monogrammed–I feel like a Vanderbilt!) and a new water heater.
Deb, we live in The House of Clutter. Stacks of books are everywhere! My semester ended last week so we’ll be Clean-up Mode soon. Monogrammed bath towels! Very nice.
Deb, go tankless!
Cool. Stimulating the economy is always good. We havae enough counter space that we’re able to keep the kitchen table clear.
Jackie toyed with a new couch and chairs but we’re keeping the old ones for now. We did get a new white microwave that matches the kitchen. And the new air conditioner.
I know how you feel, though. I am not very good with change.
Jeff, like you I’m leery of Change. But, I’m warming up to this new kitchen table and chairs (they’re comfortable!). We may see some snowflakes today! We woke up to 38 degree temps!
Calling Big Orange!
They say we could get down close to the 1878 record cold temperature of 42 tonight. On Thursday it was 80 degrees!
Jeff, we hit 80 degrees last week. But right now, the wind chill temperature is 28! Brrrrr!
Lookin’ good! And stimulating the economy, too. Very cool.
Bill, Diane did all the scouting of possible furniture choices. I just had to decide between the Paula Deen set or the Bassett set. And pay for it.
Very nice. Comfortable is good. My set was made by my father. I’d seen a butcherblock table in a magazine, and asked him if he could make one. He did, and it is great. I had planned to get ladderback chairs and paint the backs in bright colors with a floral design from stencils. But dad had also made matching chairs. They are very uncomfortable. He was so pleased, I didn’t have the heart to tell him of my plans. He also made a corner cabinet.
I know about clutter. There isn’t a surface in my house without something on it. I’m purging like crazy, though.
Maggie, Diane is trying to de-clutter, too! My goal this summer is to fill 30 boxes with books for you yearly donation to the SUNY at Buffalo Special Collections. Diane says at that rate it will take me 100 years to clear out the basement!
Looks good! What time do you want us?
Dan, our door is always open for you! We’re having pizza for lunch! Come on over!
Nice looking table and chairs, George. Diane has good taste. I thought you had already bought a table and chairs not too long ago, white, wasn’t it? You have two sets?
We had a high of 88 Friday and yesterday it was 64 and raining, with the same today. Good reading weather.
We make an effort to keep the living room-dining room-kitchen area uncluttered. The kitchen island usually has a vase of flowers from the garden (except during Winter), our weather station, any library books waiting to be read or returned (usually 2 or 3) and that’s it unless we’re preparing food.
Rick, that other set was from the Bassett catalog. This is the kitchen set Diane designed from the furniture options. We wage a constant war with clutter. Books just keep arriving! I just saw some snowflakes on my drive to the pool. Yikes!
I expect the next post to be about a new set of coasters.
Roller coasters for george?
Hmmm …
We haven’t bought any furniture since I met my wife and she came into my house – we had to “integrate” somehow all the stuff we both have here in Hungary and managed somehow. The good thing was that our tastes are similar (not only in furniture but also in music and literature and …):
Light coloured pine wood, not too heavy – but no plastics!
Most people here in Hungary have dark brown furniture and also dark painted walls, I don’t like that when it’s dark outside too, gives me the creeps …
Over Pentecoast it’s been raining and raining …
Wolf, we have a recipient for our old kitchen set. One of Patrick and Katie’s friends is getting married in a few months. When she heard we were looking for a new home for the kitchen set, she called up and asked for it. She’s a great friend of our children and helped paint our kitchen a few years ago. It was easy to agree to gift it to her (and her future husband). They’re going to borrow a pickup truck and load it on board “soon.”
Sorry, George, for that joke!
Didn’t know that coasters are “Bierdeckel” – and that the German company Katz (where they were invented …) is market leader world wide.
Totally OT to lighten up the discussion:
I was very surprised when I came to an English pub the first time that you have to pay your beer immediately when you get it – when I came to the USA later I knew about this of course.
The German custom is: You get your beer and the waiter/waitress which brought it to you (!) writes it down on a paper – or makes a mark on your coaster. When you want to leave she looks at the marks and calculates your payment – at least that was the way when I was a student, nowadays they have a list behind the bar.
So the simple coaster becomes a legal document and if you destroy it you might go to jail (in theory) …
Wolf, there is an entire industry in the U.S. devoted to coasters. You can find them in almost any shape and size and theme. I prefer super-hero coasters!
Rick, Diane is Queen of the Coasters!
I like the walls! They remind me of my last visit to a brothel!
Bob, we prefer “warm” colors.
Definitely warm!