Halloween is here. They say that fall color will begin to peak, earlier than usual, this week on the roadways leading up to the top of near by Monte Sano.
The leaves looked dreamy in the morning mist while my husband, Eric, and I drove up to the Habitat for Humanity Home center to look around for goods to use in our kitchen. We stepped out of our car while the leaves crunched under our feet. My husband and I breathed in the crisp, perfect for Halloween air, before going inside to shop. Habitat for Humanity stores offer home items that are donated by contractors, organizations and local residents for resale and the prices there are easy on the wallet.
The leaves looked dreamy in the morning mist while my husband, Eric, and I drove up to the Habitat for Humanity Home center to look around for goods to use in our kitchen. We stepped out of our car while the leaves crunched under our feet. My husband and I breathed in the crisp, perfect for Halloween air, before going inside to shop. Habitat for Humanity stores offer home items that are donated by contractors, organizations and local residents for resale and the prices there are easy on the wallet.
Eric had watched the film Wuthering Heights with me and a bag of popcorn, the other night. I pointed out the rustic, sweet old kitchens in the film. Think my husband liked the rustic aspect of the old English kitchens the best. Today at the Habitat Home store, Eric pointed to a couple of thatched wooden chairs, defiantly on the rustic side.
“I like it!” I said.
But then, we both grimaced when we saw the weave in the chairs was ripped, more than we wanted to deal with anyway.
We walked on in the store “Hmmming” in consideration when we saw a shelf that looked fabulous and sighing in disappointment when we discovered a large nick on the piece.
We’re buyers who look for low maintenance, even in a second hand store. That’s just how we are. Maintenance to us sometimes means just as much money to repair, or at least more work than we want to make time for.
But all our careful browsing often pays off in stores some call junk stores. There is always true treasure found even for we buyers in search of low maintenance. In the corner of the store, for exsamle, I thumbed through a stack of prints and paintings. Pulling out 2 farmed prints nicely done, I gave an “Hmmmm” and then I didn’t sigh in disappointment instead I smiled...widely. The prints showed pewter flasks keeping company with rich purple grapes and bright tomatoes all in simple honest still life from. Simple, honest, rustic sweet - those were all the things I wanted in my Moors style kitchen.
I put the prints under my arm and took with me also another great Renoir print for our home kitchen. The still lives would cost me $2.00 a piece and the money I was going to give for the paintings, would go to a good cause to help build homes for families in need. That's how the Habbitat for Humanity stores work.
At the check out for the Habitat for Humanity store, a large man came in totting 2 remarkable chairs right past my husband who was about to make our sales final with his wallet. Then my eyes went big and I gasped looking at the chairs - “Are those just coming in?!” I asked the man carrying the chairs. I think I practically stepped on the poor mans heals following him. As soon as the Habitat worker set the chairs down I picked them up and inspected them. I could feel the real nails planted into one of the chair's upholstery. There wasn't a staple found on this small sweet chair done in Old English style. I taped the curves on the little chair and my tapping donated it was real wood.
We walked on in the store “Hmmming” in consideration when we saw a shelf that looked fabulous and sighing in disappointment when we discovered a large nick on the piece.
We’re buyers who look for low maintenance, even in a second hand store. That’s just how we are. Maintenance to us sometimes means just as much money to repair, or at least more work than we want to make time for.
But all our careful browsing often pays off in stores some call junk stores. There is always true treasure found even for we buyers in search of low maintenance. In the corner of the store, for exsamle, I thumbed through a stack of prints and paintings. Pulling out 2 farmed prints nicely done, I gave an “Hmmmm” and then I didn’t sigh in disappointment instead I smiled...widely. The prints showed pewter flasks keeping company with rich purple grapes and bright tomatoes all in simple honest still life from. Simple, honest, rustic sweet - those were all the things I wanted in my Moors style kitchen.
I put the prints under my arm and took with me also another great Renoir print for our home kitchen. The still lives would cost me $2.00 a piece and the money I was going to give for the paintings, would go to a good cause to help build homes for families in need. That's how the Habbitat for Humanity stores work.
At the check out for the Habitat for Humanity store, a large man came in totting 2 remarkable chairs right past my husband who was about to make our sales final with his wallet. Then my eyes went big and I gasped looking at the chairs - “Are those just coming in?!” I asked the man carrying the chairs. I think I practically stepped on the poor mans heals following him. As soon as the Habitat worker set the chairs down I picked them up and inspected them. I could feel the real nails planted into one of the chair's upholstery. There wasn't a staple found on this small sweet chair done in Old English style. I taped the curves on the little chair and my tapping donated it was real wood.
It was the same with the larger more ornate chair - all real wood, no staples. Eric shook his head looking on the larger chair though - “”What will you do with that?” he wondered. Then he eased on a smile – “We’ll take both chairs” he said to the check out lady. With Elre's wondering and my own hesitation, I was ready to put the large chair back, but everything happened so fast. Before I knew it, both chairs were in the back of our vehicle ready to become part of our family.
On the way home, I knew where the little chair belonged, in our kitchen. The large Victorian style chair, for now, sits in our dinning room just off our foyer and will be spied by Trick or Treaters tonight. It does add elegance or as Eric puts it - fru, fru to the house. Somehow, I think, that chair will one day add even more to our dinning room.... in some way. That time will come when over dinning room is worked over more. Right now, we focus on the kitchen.
My husband just went back to Habitat for Humanity, one of the best stores in the world, we think anyway. He is purchasing a window to place in our attic upstairs. The window that once hung in a house the was demolished, will hang over a window box and face our leafy street finding good use....again.
On the way home, I knew where the little chair belonged, in our kitchen. The large Victorian style chair, for now, sits in our dinning room just off our foyer and will be spied by Trick or Treaters tonight. It does add elegance or as Eric puts it - fru, fru to the house. Somehow, I think, that chair will one day add even more to our dinning room.... in some way. That time will come when over dinning room is worked over more. Right now, we focus on the kitchen.
My husband just went back to Habitat for Humanity, one of the best stores in the world, we think anyway. He is purchasing a window to place in our attic upstairs. The window that once hung in a house the was demolished, will hang over a window box and face our leafy street finding good use....again.
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