HEARTH ROOM DINING ROOM

 Since we moved to our retirement

cottage, we have not had a

dining room.  I love hospitality

so recently I have been thinking

of using our hearth room as a dining

 room which was it's original purpose.

  It is a little area attached to the kitchen

but with a fireplace.

We brought up the old reproduction

Duncan Phyfe table (the leaf is

out at this time). We put it in

 the center of room lining it up 

with the fireplace.

With winter upon us, I can

still have people over and with

the leaf inserted I can seat 8 here 

and 4-6  over to the right on a table

 in the kitchen).  It gets cold downstairs

 in the winter so this is better and

cozy next to the fireplace.

For fun I set the table with dishes 

which are mostly

Red English

Copeland Spode Tower.

I am going to have fun here because

in Colorado I always kept the dining

room table set with dishes.  Of course, 

people who came in asked who

are you having

for dinner?

The teapot and coffeepot

are English Mason's Vista.

I think I should have done

this when we moved into

this house going on

7 years ago!

So what I 

haven't 

mentioned is that now we have a sofa waiting in

the front hallway

that needs to be

taken down to

the basement.