Home For Christmas

A few weekends ago, I brought my hutch home from the store so I could refinish it for my dining room.  I'm on aquest to lighten and brighten my dark house.  Previously the hutch was white and lived in my office, where it was very happy.

Then it went to live at the store, where it made many people smile, but it was very homesick.

The hutch was at the store for display purposes only and not for sale.  Many people complimented it and offered to buy it, but it wanted to come back home. Every time I went into the store to drop off new items to sell, it called out to me, "take me home".

And so ~ it did come home and got a whole new makeover.  It went from white to dark brown, then received it's top coat of off-white paint, and finally was distressed to allow thebrown to show through. Here it is now in the dining room ~ all decked out for Christmas with glitter and brown transfer ware.

So here are some close ups.  I think you'll seehow happy it is now.

My new corbels have found their final resting place on the bottom shelf of the hutch top.

I found some lovely gold mesh ribbon at Michaels that went with the color scheme perfectly.  Not the easiest thing to work with, but it sure is pretty and adds nice texture to the vignette.

My vintage silver ware also found a new home next to the corbels.  Sorry they are so tarnished and not ready for either Christmas or a photo shoot. 

Can you tell I am quite taken with these rust-colored snowflakes that I found at Walmart?

 

 As you can see ~ Charley is also glad the hutch has come home and found the most comfortable place in the house to nap.

When I got home from work this evening, I found this nice plate of cookies in the dining room ~ made by my sweet daughter.  My favorite Christmas cookies ~ and I can tell you, my mouth was watering when I took this picture.

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