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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:39 pm
That too! The whole set up is very nice! We're finally at a place where I guess I need to start decorating. We bought our first home and it's colorful, just kinda ugly. Hubby's idea is off white. Off white and/or panelling has been all I've lived in so I want some COLOR. He primed our bedroom before I got here as it was a bright bright lilac and primer is alot nicer to look at. *L* But it's going to have to wait until it's a tad warmer so we can air the house out cuz just the one room primed before I got here had me and the kitties ill.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 4:06 pm
Thanks! It's amazing how much it completed the room. I knew the blue couch wasn't the greatest looking but I thought I decorated sort of good around it, but after seeing the before and after pics..all i can say is wow! Serate, I remember our first home. It was decorated in 'early relative'. We counted up and 8 dead people had contributed to our house! LOL go for color!! if you don't like it, you can always paint over it!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 4:11 pm
The only early relative furniture we have is my hubby's mom's stuff and most of it is downstairs now. Except the table and chairs which I hate but I am going to try and redo. It's too important to my husband for me to make a stink about. I love your room.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 4:26 pm
Thanks! I have alot of family pieces too, but they are antiques. The early relative we had was just their old stuff! ;)
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 5:17 pm
Huge difference Annie!! Looks so much better!!! HEre I put them side by side for everyone:

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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 5:58 pm
all i can say again is wow! and it was FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! i did switch the club chair just to the left of the sofa to the Queen Anne from my study. It had a little bit more brown in it and worked better. The club chair actually looks better in the study! LOL
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 8:55 pm
Looks really nice, Annie. I can tell you love a bargain. Ha!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 4:52 am
I love it Annie...it is amazing how a change of one piece of furniture changes the look in a room so much. I cannot believe that a person would get rid of such a beautiful piece...but hey, it worked out great for you. Congrats.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 6:02 am
Thanks Vee and Skootz! I know and it's only about 7 years old. They bought this couch orginally for the den in another house. They moved about 3 years ago. This is for their media room which she has always had trouble configuring the furniture for. She bought an upholstered sectional. She called me on Friday in a panic when the sectional came in saying 'come over and tell me i made the right choice!' I did and it really did look fantastic, but I teased her saying 'you know i am gonna say yes cause i need a new sofa!' LOL It was my good fortune that she didn't have any place to go with it once the new one came in.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:22 am
Wow -- you got that for FREE! Wow wow wow. It looks fantastic, as does your whole place.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 11:45 am
Yes! for FREE!!!! it would look good even if i had to pay for it, but for FREE it looks just fantastic! LOL thanks!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 11:46 am
Annie, what is the piece underneath the three pictures on the wall to the left (in the above photo?) It looks like several large books, but I think it is a type of bookshelf???
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 12:10 pm
that's a sofa table. it's has an upholstered slip cover like thing on it. you can see it a little better in this pic

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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 12:38 pm
It looks very cool, not sure if it really has the colors that the photo shows, but it looks like it has burgundy and navy and matches way perfectly...
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 1:09 pm
Yes, it's a kind of a plaid and has burgundy, navy, gold and a sageish green in it. It was in my entry, but it was really too heavy for the space. When I got that wrought iron table I put that in the entry.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:33 pm
What do you think of either of these tables? Would the red be too much? Is the white one too formal for a kitchen?
 
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 4:54 am
I would go with the white one Julie...you can buy slip covers if you really like the red. You also want to think of having the set longer than before you get sick of the colour. You can also get a really nice red table cloth too to get this red colour. I like the backs of the white chairs too.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 6:09 am
I like the style of the red table especially the Windsor chairs better than the other, but not crazy about the red color. Perhaps all natural wood and then use a seat pad for a pop of color.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, February 23, 2007 - 8:41 pm
Boy I might be changing my mind. After a week of looking high and low for the perfect red... I went to Menards and the beadboard/wainscoating stuff they had is just like particleboard. I think it will get wrecked easily. Do you think it would look weird if I just left the bottom wallpaper as is, took the top wallpaper off (which you cannot tell from the photo that it is even wallpaper as it is white & off white stripes) and just painted the top a reddish/purplish color from the wallpaper? I really wanted to lose the floral/fruit stuff. Any other ideas out there?? I am bummin'.... PS Here is a photo of the kitchen pretty much as is (except for the awful rug...) Oh and we'll be getting a new table/chairs and light fixtures too...

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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 9:35 am
left the flower wall paper? is there a red in it that would work or is it pink? i think you would need a chair rail to seperate the two. i just checked with my husband and he said that sure there are solid wood wainscotting but why would you want to pay the money? MDF is durable. It must be primed and painted. And it can't get sopping wet, but other than that, it's fine.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 9:42 am
Ok Annie, you are giving me a little hope!!! Where can I get MDF wainscoting?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 9:43 am
Also do I need to paint it or does it come in white? ETA: Duh! I think I got so excited at the prospect of a good alternative that I didn't even finish reading your post! Then I would see that you do have to paint it....
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 10:16 am
Julie -- go to Lowe's. My dad and I build cabinets in the summer, and we did their basement w/beadboard. Just be sure to check EACH piece! Some lots are not as good as others, but in the stacks of lumber, we'd just go through until we found the pieces we wanted. We actually had more trouble finding good double-sided 1/4" plywood for door panels than we did finding good beadboard. It's MDF, but when it's attached to the drywall, primed and painted, and then topped w/a sturdy chair rail, it's gorgeous. We finished his house this way 5 years ago, and there isn't a mark on the beadboard. We've got 4 little boys running around in that house at holidays, so I can verify it's sturdy stuff! 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 11:15 am
Teach--can you tell me the exact name of it, by chance? So when we go there, we get the same stuff. Oh, and thanks a mil!!!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 11:22 am
what Teach said. Home Depot has it too. just ask a sales person where the beadboard is.
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