My Country French Farm House Table

DONNA over at FUNKY JUNK INTERIORS

is having FARM HOUSE TABLE meme this week...

and I LUV to play in her memes.

PART of this post is from the past and

part is *today*....

Here's a neat thing about todays designs...
You can call your STYLE anything you want to.
Some days, my dining room is SHABBY...
Some days, it's COUNTRY...
Some days, it's ROMANTIC PRAIRIE, which it MOSTLY is.

ONCE UPON A TIME....

there were some very BROWN dining chairs...

Since I am a "LOVE PAINTED FURNITURE" person,

these chairs were NOT my favorite thing in my dining room...

....a LITTLE natural furniture is ok...

but a large farm house table in brown oak, 

6 OAK chairs and a large OAK buffet

WAS TOO MUCH FOR ME...!

I reached for the paint can MANY times but MR. SWEET sucked air through his teeth

and his eyes rolled so far back, I was sure, ONCE AGAIN, that he might never

be able to focus them again !!

BUT, THEN.... my friend wanted to sell her almost new CREAMY WHITE dining chairs...

Although I PROMISE I never really PRAYED for creamy white dining chairs,

I TOOK THIS AS A SIGN FROM ABOVE...

and when she said...

$150.00 for ALL SIX,

I got that money to her so fast it caused me to pass a little gas !

....and, may I just say....

OH HONEY !

My farm house table came ALIVE when

the creamy white chairs came to live with it.

These chairs made my dining room

GROW UP OVERNIGHT....!!!
Yes, ma'am....they surely did.

I love to change up the table setting and I do it pretty often...
Loved these beautiful flowering branches and basket of whites.

I love my french country farmhouse chandy...I love the chunkyness of it..
It seems to "hold it's own" with the heavy, long oak table beneath it...and I really love the white glass globes. This was found at a local FLEA MARKET about 18 years ago for $45.00....
I've wondered several times if I should paint the base of it...somehow, I like the brushed brass.
I also love SHINY brass and am VERY slow to ever paint over it....
I have  been eyeing the ORB spray at Walmart, tho....

Of course, just about the time I get it sprayed bronze,
the brushed brass will start showing up in POTTERY BARN catalogs.

Some of you might know that I am a
TABLE CLOTH PERSON.....big time !
BUT...
I'm giving this nekked table a few days to see if I like it better...
**
I do love a pretty tablecloth but....
these ADORABLE CREAMY WHITE CHAIRS
are makin' this brown table look lots better....
I put some vintage shutter SWINGING DOORS
up beside my windows...
I had BLUE TRANSFERWARE plates hanging there but...
they have been there 6 or 7 years and I wanted something new...
...to match
THE CHAIRS...

 Now this table dressing REALLY takes on a
Country French feel...

At first, these shutters  looked STRANGE to me...

you know how you get used to something one way and when
you change it, it takes awhile before you know if you're
gonna like it or not...
but, so far...I like the frenchy farm house  look it adds
to my BED AND BREAKFAST dining room...
The one with the
LOVED, CREAMY WHITE CHAIRS !!
I'm tellin' ya....it's ALL ABOUT THE CHAIRS.!
This next photo is one of two benches MR. SWEET made for me.
When there's no little butts to sit on it,
I like something pretty on this one beneath my mom's quilt.

This is another way I like to decorate THE BENCH..
A little country french going on here.

I'VE been hanging out in the dining room since I am IN LOVE with it again...

and dining rooms make me hungry...

I had lemons....

and our SWEET TOOTH was wanting a.....PIE
....if I could have only ONE dessert in the world...I WOULD CHOOSE PIE !!

See the 1954 calendar plate?

It belonged to MR. SWEET'S momma...

*One of our kids or grands will get it if they want it...
I really don't think it's all that pretty but...
sentiment, ya know....

Frankly.....

I like this plain white vintage plate with a piece of

LEMON PIE
much better !
;>)

Isn't it so wonderful when you get something that you just LOVE and you spend half the day walking back in there to LOOK at it all over again ?
It STILL blows my mind that the white chairs make the
olden farm house table look so much better than the brown chairs did.
The sun is shinning bright out my window...

Hope your day is FILLED with sunshine !!

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MANY THANKS TO ALL THE LOVELIES THAT HOST THESE FUN MEMES EACH WEEK.

We had homemade monkey bread and sweet cherries
while we watch THE WEDDING...
*
Thank you for coming by Sweet Nothings..
I hope this is going to be a really good week for all of us.
xoxo bj
To all affected by the terrible storms,
my prayers.