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[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, I really do love that furniture but the scrolly thing at the bottom can go.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

reproduction french provencial. so...of the very late baroque period (as i recall) when EVERYTHING was over-decorated like this.

my bestie in high school, her parents had this set of furniture (with slightly nicer bedside tables than shown). and when she moved out, her family dynamic had changed (her mother passed away when we were seniors in high school, her father remarried a couple of years later) and she was given the furniture because the new couple were wise and BOUGHT NEW. (plus there were 6 children between the 2 of them, so they were able to pass on furniture fairly easily!)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

My family moved so often we became furniture-optional. One year Dad sat on a stump taken out of the woodpile, Mom sat on a folding chair we found in the street, and us kids sat on the floor. And we were happy!

*snort*

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

*grins* we always had furniture...

but at the same time, i have no problem at all with decorating in the style most often known as "early american attic"!

case in point...there are 3 chest-of-drawers in the master bedroom. one was bought at a thrift store (it's from the 60's but still real wood), one was once part of my grandmother's master bedroom set (it's the only piece remaining from the flood in 1979), the other was my mother's as a teen. the one that was mama's as a small child is in my other bedroom.

oh, and the cedar wardrobe that was my grandmother's closet is in my living room, her cedar blanket chest is in my bedroom.

we believe in family heirlooms, and as mama gets the house ready to be sold, i swear i bring back at least one boxload of items each time i visit her! :D (they're moving to georgia to be close to my brother. *eyeroll*)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, hang on tight to Granny's cedar furniture, that's the best. Me, I had a flood incident, too, and I'm slowly crawling up off the floor again. Such is life!

And I grew up in GA so, uh, best of luck to Mama.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i served...er, LIVED two years in georgia. that was *enough*. :)

the flood in '79 was horrible...it's STILL the record holder for the most rainfall in a 24 hour period in the US. GT (my granny), her house was on brick pylons, 2 feet off the ground. there was 18 inches of water IN the house! inside the cedar wardrobe is a watermark, at the back, still. the cedar chest was oiled well with old english furniture oil and it doesn't show a BIT of water damage!

my uncle had 3 rangy black lab mixes that were full-time outside dogs. my dad hauled them up to the TREEHOUSE when he saw how high the water was starting to get. and they STAYED up there till the water came down to the point that they had a dry place to stay. we took them up food and water. :D

floods are a real pain in the ass to have to live through. i'm glad you're coming up from yours. *hugs if you would like them*

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

My flood was nowhere near that bad but thank you!

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Despite loving blue, the yellow sheets work much better when imagining it for a child's bedroom. Especially since it matches her dress!