Forever Furniture When We Down Size

Hi, Friends, 

How are you? I hope you are well. 

I promised you a post about our forever furniture pieces. 

Our house in East Texas is a little over half of the size of our house in town. The closer my husband gets to his retirement, the more it looks like we will make the country house our permanent house. 

How do you downsize 40 years of collections? 

I've begun thinking about it early almost to prepare myself for the inevitable. 

So. what pieces will get to go with us to East Texas? 

Top of the list is our corner cupboard. 

It is hands down my favorite piece. It's gorgeous, sentimental and it holds a ton of china. 

My plan is to put it in the corner of our little dining area. We need new French doors anyway.  If we decrease the opening with a single door or move them over a tad, we would have enough room. 

Bill thinks that we need to add on to create a formal dining room somewhere else so we will see. 

The dresser in the dining room is going too. 

I'd love to find a place for this sweet French commode. It's perfect for holding our silver. 

The wash stand that was in my room as a child, has to go. We'll use it in the living room as a side table. 

The little spool cabinet will have to be squeezed in as another end table. It was $5.00 at a garage sale. I adore this little sweet table. 

My grandparents wash stand could be a little end table somewhere. Maybe in the T.V. room or in the guest room. 

Now that I've painted our bed, I prefer the bed in the city to the one in East Texas but Bill feels opposite. 

Maybe we will sell both and get something we both love. 

We bought an armoire at an antique store early in our marriage. We had our T.V. in it for a long time. 

It could go in our room or in the guest room. 

Our first antique was a little drop leaf desk. We both love it. 

We have a lot of art that we love. We may have to do a gallery wall somewhere. 

The church attendance board will have to come. I love the French side chair. It was $3.00 at at garage sale. The little cherry end table was gifted to me by our realtor. 

We called this wall cubby a barber shop. I guess it held shaving mugs. 

It is one of my favorite things. 

  I'm not sure what dining table we will use. 

Our dining room table was made by my dad but it isn't super practical. We've had a hard time getting it to stop squeaking and you can't really add a leaf to it. I love these French style dining chairs but they aren't the best quality. 

The best of the upholstered furniture will make the move but it's all about 7-15 years old so it wouldn't be the end of the world to replace it. 

I do love the World Market chair that is slip covered in ticking stripe. It's a great place to have a cup of coffee. 

I don't think that the empire chest will fit. I'll offer it back to my friend Sara. It's the craziest story. I picked it out of the trash around the corner and brought it home. My friend, Sara came into to the house and said it belonged to her grandmother. I told her that was impossible because I didn't find it at her house. 

She said, that they put it in the trash at a house around the corner from them. It had a broken foot and they knew that someone who could fix the foot would rescue it. Bill fixed the foot and it has graced our home ever since. How fun is that? 

Actually, I'm not sure I can give this away. It has so much back story. 

We have so many memories in the city house but we are also making great memories out in the country. I think that will make moving a little easier. 

The pieces we bought for East Texas will be moved back to the city for a sale or maybe I'll get an antique booth somewhere. 

That is all for now. 

Let me know how you liked this post. 

I think it would be fun to do a post about furniture that love but that won't fit. 

Katie