I generally believe there is right place for furniture, which are very obvious in my bedrooms by power point placement. The open area of my kitchen, lounge, desk and dining area is not so fixed, well actually only the dining table.
The table and dining chairs are very old, dating back to about 2003. The hard chairs do not encourage diners to linger at the table, which brought them closer to leaving, such a good thing in my opinion.
The dining table always sat as it is in the second photo, but after the new carpet was laid, the forgetful layers put it back with a 90 degree rotation. I quite liked the new position, and kept it.
But then the new lounge chairs arrived and while I got rid of one old lounge chair, I decided to keep one of the old chairs after moving it to the dining area.
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Your home is lovely and the sideboard centered beneath the print looks especially wonderful. I can't help laughing at myself now, because we have a number of pieces that are well over sixty (!) years old. Right this minute I'm sitting on a sectional sofa that my husband laid on as a young man, often with their orange cat Jacob on his chest. :) It has been reupholstered but even that occurred around 1998 after his mother passed away. Be well and enjoy your cozy space!
ReplyDeleteYou do have a lovely home, Andrew! It looks calming and it is well organized.
ReplyDeleteAgreed as long as the "lads" behave themselves. But the chairs, if dating from 2003, cannot be "very old." My dining room chairs were bought in 1930, not by me I hasten to add. Another four years and they will be antiques. Roderick
ReplyDeleteYour home is lovely, Andrew. Your good taste shines through.
ReplyDeleteAh, the moving of furniture to find the perfect spot. Until it isn't and you do it all again! Looks good.
ReplyDeleteIt took me several looks to realise what "not a code phrase" meant.
ReplyDeleteI was once quick off the mark (also not a code phrase) with stuff like that.
You're funny!
And hooray for great furniture placement.
Your home looks sleek and modern, but in a cool, serene way.
ReplyDeleteLooks comfortable enough to me.
ReplyDeleteLooks good. The one thing I would do differently in my own life is to have less furniture. When I was full time in the wheelchair I realized I had too much furtniture. So I've gotten rid of some.
ReplyDeleteI like the arrangement in the first picture, with the table length mirroring the shelves. Had to laugh at you calling your dining setting old. My table is from 1998, but I no longer have the six chairs, there is just no room for them here. One of the kids has those.
ReplyDeleteYour dining room looks lovely Andrew. I prefer the placements in the first photo but the placements in the second photo look ok and you have to have somewhere to put the lounge chair you kept. It looks alright and when all said and done it has to suit you only.
ReplyDeleteOur dining table is blackwood with leather chairs and probably just over 10 years old, we sit there a lot because the chairs are comfortable..
Sounds like I’m in the minority here, I prefer the second photo.
ReplyDeleteIt has a clean sleek look about whereas - to me me - the first one has a cluttered look about it and having the table parallel to the wall unit makes me think the people facing it would be distracted all the time. Looking at things on the shelves rather than at the other ‘guests’.
In my book "Stereotyping Gay Men" by Cliff Hanger, it says that gay men are frequently very particular about home furnishings and the positioning of furniture in their homes. This blogpost appears to add weight to that argument.
ReplyDeleteYou transform a room from merely functional into a space that feels warm, balanced, and inviting for both guests and Jass alike
ReplyDeleteI am too old to move furniture about. I really should move my desk so I can see out the window, but I can't be bothered.
ReplyDeleteAll our furniture looks as though it's taken a deep breath and fled to the walls.
ReplyDeleteI find that once we get accustomed to an arrangement of furniture we never move it.
ReplyDeleteVery classy as one of my aunties used to say. I really like this arrangement. And your lighting is particularly gorgeous.
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I don't move furniture as often as I used to. This house isn't very conducive to choices. But my teak table is oldish, from the late 60s, and other pieces are early 19th century, old!
ReplyDeleteThat is a cozy space but its very funny your perspective on the hard chairs being so helpful in encouraging early departure of guests.
ReplyDeletehard chairs do not encourage diners to linger at the table, which brought them closer to leaving, such a good thing in my opinion. Something else we have in common. I like having seen friends more than I seem to enjoy seeing them at least for more than an hour or two
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