Fine Dining Furniture

where can i fine used or donated church dining room furniture

check out www.gumtree.co.uk they have lots of furniture and freebies too!

2007-08-11 19:46:19 by Shell M

AntiquePurveyor.com and partners hand picking flame mahogany Veneers for there fine line of dining tables

I am inheriting a dinining room table that seats 8 and was wondering if they make anything that I can place on top of the table to protect it. I have two cats that have slipped when jumping onto furniture and their little claws come out and damage the furniture. This dining room table was appraised at around $2,000, I'd like to keep it in the same condition that I received it in for many years to come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Hit chcock
http://www.usedhitchcockchair.com/

If you go to a fine furniture store in your area (like robb & stuckey), they will come to your house make a template, and order it for you.

Look for a company in your area that sells Henredon furniture (go to their site, and find a dealer). That will be the fine furniture store that you can go to. Call 1st and tell them what you need, they may ask you to make the template, but more than likely they will do it.

2008-03-24 11:39:40 by ♥Kitty143Cat♥

Price: $179.99 $40.99

Measures 15 by 15 by 25 inches each; 31-pound shipping weight
Set of 2 contemporary stools from Winsome Wood; air lift design for seat height of 25 to 30 inches
Home assembly required; 200-pound maximum weight capacity

I have inherited a beautiful rattan dining room set. However, I have seen other pieces of rattan that have a darker shade. Is it possible for me to get a rub on stain that would work on the rattan? The set has a gloss to it, and I wasn't sure if I should take a fine grade sand paper and sand it down first or if it just is not possible. I would hate to ruin the set, but I would really like to attempt taking it to a darker shade. What is the best way to do this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

if it still has a gloss to it, u'r gonna need something to dull that gloss or nothing will really work on it properly.

I don't know if it would work, but TSP works on paint for dulling it... get some & try it in a place that u wouldn't notice... if it works, then do all the set or what u want to change. Then try using, I believe it's by Minwood(sp) that they have stain/varnish in one... then go for it.. use either a sponge or a brush.

If u use something w/ the varnish & stain in one it would save u steps. If u can't or chose not to, then stain, dry, cure, varnish/polyurithene... spray... or depending how tight the weave is.. paint on.

Hope that helps.

I have done one but it was pretty dull to begin w/ b/c it was sitting outside & got beaten by the weather.

2009-04-29 18:04:51 by justbeachy

Price: $170.00 $81.00

Solid wood construction
29-1/2-Inch Square Table great for small spaces
Shaker style legs for a classic look

I'm moving into a new condo. Long story short, it's owned by my boyfriend's uncle.... so he's giving me all of the furniture that's in there. It's a very small one-bedroom.

I wish I had a picture, but I don't. It's got white walls, white carpet, white ceilings, and black furniture. Black leather sofa, black tv stand, black dining room chairs, black stools, black oriental-inspired dresser, and a black bedframe with a semi-circle headboard. The coffee table is a rectangular piece of glass over a really awesome panther-sculpture. The panther's shoulders and hips hold up the table.

The only splash of color is the cabinets in the kitchen that have been painted a bright turquoise. The condo is much more modern than my tastes, but I'm willing to work with it. The only problem is.... I'm not completely satisfied with the way it looks just yet. I hate having so much white and black in a small space. I like the contrast, but it's too overwhelming. Another issue is my furniture I'm bringing with me is mostly earth colors like brown and beige.

Any ideas how I could make this work? Suggestions for painting the wall another color? Or possibly the cabinets? I'm fine with turquoise but if there's another color that works better I'm willing to give it a try.

Thanks!

introduce some color. pick your favorite 2 or 3 colors and begin introducing color. you won't use these colors in equal amounts. play with them until you have a balance that you like.

you said there was turquoise in the kitchen. Is it visible only in the kitchen or can you see it from other parts of the condo?

if you can see the turquoise from other areas of the home then you want to bring in 2 more colors.

some colors that look good with black, white, and turquoise.
coral--either the bright red shade or the paler pinky-orange shade
beige--the color of sand
silvery blue gray--the color of driftwood
dark green--the color of kelp or palm fronds

I confess turquoise tends to make me go tropical but you can just as easily go with desert colors for the turquoise. (thinking about where I might see things in nature helps me figure out colors)

turquoise could also take you to the Agean (think Greek) or North Africa (think Morroco)

you can use an area rug to help break up the white rug and define a space.

you can use pillows and throws to introduce color onto the furniture.

bring color in your accessories and wall decorations.

bring in live plants for color and decoration.

2009-05-20 11:51:00 by BB

The Palin interview
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"It is embarrassing to have to spell this out, but for the record let me explain why Gov. Palin's answer to the "Bush Doctrine" question -- the only part of the recent interview I have yet seen over here in China -- implies a disqualifying lack of preparation for the job.

Not the mundane job of vice president, of course, which many people could handle. Rather the job of potential Commander in Chief and most powerful individual on earth.

The spelling-out is lengthy, but I've hidden most of it below the jump.

Each of us has areas we care about, and areas we don't. If we are interested in a topic, we follow its development over the years. And because we have followed its development, we're able to talk and think about it in a "rounded" way. We can say: Most people think X, but I really think Y. Or: most people used to think P, but now they think Q. Or: the point most people miss is Z. Or: the question I'd really like to hear answered is A.

Here's the most obvious example in daily life: Sports Talk radio.

Mention a name or theme -- Brett Favre, the Patriots under Belichick, Lance Armstrong's comeback, Venus and Serena -- and anyone who cares about sports can have a very sophisticated discussion about the ins and outs and myth and realities and arguments and rebuttals.

People who don't like sports can't do that. It's not so much that they can't identify the names -- they've heard of Armstrong -- but they've never bothered to follow the flow of debate. I like sports -- and politics and tech and other topics -- so I like joining these debates. On a wide range of other topics -- fashion, antique furniture, the world of restaurants and fine dining, or (blush) opera -- I have not been interested enough to learn anything I can add to the discussion. So I embarrass myself if I have to express a view.

What Sarah Palin revealed is that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to become minimally conversant with the issues. Many people in our great land might have difficulty defining the "Bush Doctrine" exactly. But not to recognize the name, as obviously was the case for Palin, indicates not a failure of last-minute cramming but a lack of attention to any foreign-policy discussion whatsoever in the last seven years.

Two details in Charles Gibson's posing of the question were particularly telling. One was the potentially confusing way in which he first asked it. On the page, "the Bush Doctrine" looks different from "the Bush doctrine." But when hearing the question Palin might not have known whether Gibson was referring to the general sweep of Administration policy -- doctrine with small d -- or the rationale that connected 9/11 with the need to invade Iraq, the capital-D Doctrine. So initial confusion would be understandable -- as if a sports host asked about Favre's chances and you weren't sure if he meant previously with the Packers or with the Jets. Once Gibson clarified the question, a person familiar with the issue would have said, "Oh, if we're talking about the strategy that the President and Condoleezza Rice began laying out in 2002...." There was no such flash of recognition.

The other was Gibson's own minor mis-statement. American foreign policy has long recognized the concept of preemptive action: if you know somebody is just about to attack you, there's no debate about the legitimacy of acting first. (This is like "shooting in self-defense.") The more controversial part of The Bush Doctrine was the idea of preventive war: acting before a threat had fully emerged, on the theory that waiting until it was fully evident would mean acting too late.

Gibson used the word "preemptively" -- but if a knowledgeable person had pushed back on that point ("Well, preemption was what John F. Kennedy had in mind in acting against the imminent threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba"), Gibson would certainly have come back to explain the novelty of the "preventive war" point. Because he knows the issue, a minor mis-choice of words wouldn't get in the way of his real intent.

Sarah Palin did not know this issue, or any part of it. The view she actually expressed -- an endorsement of "preemptive" action -- was fine on its own merits. But it is not the stated doctrine of the Bush Administration, it is not the policy her running mate has endorsed, and it is not the concept under which her own son is going off to Iraq.

How could she not know this? For the same reason I don't know anything about European football/soccer standings, player trades, or intrigue. I am not interested enough. And she evidently has not been interested enough even to follow the news of foreign affairs during the Bush era.

A further point. The truly toxic combination of traits GW Bush brought to decision making was:

1) Ignorance
2) Lack of curiosity
3) "Decisiveness"

That is, he was not broadly informed to begin with (point 1). He did not seek out new informat
That is, he was not broadly informed to begin with (point 1). He did not seek out new information (#2); but he nonetheless prided himself (#3) on making broad, bold decisions quickly, and then sticking to them to show resoluteness.

We don't know for sure about #2 for Palin yet -- she could be a sponge-like absorber of information. But we know about #1 and we can guess, from her demeanor about #3. Most of all we know something about the person who put her in this untenable role.


http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/arch ives/2008/09/the_palin_interview.php

That is a lot of words, very nicely put together by Fallows, But in simpler terms: The policy that the US will engage in preventive war is the biggest change in US policy in our country's 232 years and for a VP candidate to either not be aware of it or to not have an opinion of it is totally unacceptable.

EDIT: Treading water, you didn't read it correctly.

2008-09-12 11:36:58 by blueridgeliving