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Saturday 4 April 2015

This is my dining room with the same grey walls and orange extras.. the table leads to the double white wooden doors that fold right back into the walls thus making the front room and dining room one vast open room.. This is what we do at Christmas times and when the family come. I have orange accents at the moment, but with the turquoise and green choice next room, I might well choose similar shades .. but the front room will have more turquoise in it, and the dining room the emphasis will be on the greener side.. what do you think? the Large mat on the floor is for the dogs to lie on in front of the fire.. they love it .. the window also lifts up into the eaves and makes another doorway into garden, just like the one in the front room.. This room is part of the original house, which was enlarged in the 1850's by the then Vicars wife, who was part of the Suchard Chocolate family and had the money to increase the house on both sides, creating a house with eight bedrooms and two bathrooms, and four toilets. Originally we had Johns parents living in the sectioned off three bedroom part. They sectioned it off in the 1940's for the curate who was the assistant to the vicar. Anyway this is another large room and comes into its own when it is all opened up..

6 comments:

  1. OMG, I want to sit in that room and have tea! The window lifts up into the eaves.!! Something you only see in the movies or a very expensive decorating mag. You are so, so fortunate to live in such a beautiful home. And I can see you obviously know this and enjoy it thoroughly.
    I don't think you could possibly mess up on the colors in either of these rooms - they are so pretty that they would accommodate almost any color you could choose.
    Thanks so much for sharing - this is so much fun! I would die to see the kitchen!

    PS: those are the exact same chairs that our family had at our beach house, long gone now, but such a sweet bit of nostalgia to see them again.

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  2. well, they are Edwardian chairs I think and as for the kitchen, well, it is free standing and very old fashioned looking, and I will show you next time... this is quite fun... never realised, then I will do a tour by camera when I have them all up** Happy Easter to all .... have a great week afterwards too***

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  3. The description of your doors and windows sound amazing. I love the coziness of the room.

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  4. thank you so much for comments here.. it has been a long time trying to make the huge rooms look cozy and we have now been here 17 years this May** It is still evolving as we go along. Before it was also a place to work for both of us, but now I am retired and he is semi retired, we are trying to organise the house as a home, not with working offices and reception areas. I am going to put more pictures up later to show how the colour pops worked in the front room..x

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  5. Thanks for finding me and following. I am your newest follower, too. Love that you live in an old Georgian house!!!! xo Diana

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  6. Hello Janzi - another 'Nana' here who's also a new follower and thank you so much for newly following me too! You have a very beautiful home. x

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