I loved to watch The Price is Right when I was younger and home from school.  (Hey, who am I kidding, I still love to watch it!)  I would always get excited for the new cars and the games like Plinko.  When I would see a new living room set or a dining room table as one of the prizes or part of the final showcase, I used to think, “How could anyone get excited to win that?  I want the car!”  Well, now that I am a homeowner, wife, and soon to be mother - I am one of those people who now gets excited over a new living room set or dining room table.

We went out shopping last weekend, looking for 2 prints we had seen at the furniture place where we got our new bedroom which was now going out of business.  Sadly, they were already gone (and at 70% off, I can see why).  So we started looking for a dresser or chest of drawers for the nursery.  That quest took us to another furniture store, where we happened to see a china cabinet that was very similar to our dining room table.  The two pieces were over $2500 each, but had been marked down to $998.  As the sales rep came up to us, my s first question was, “Is that the price for both pieces?”  She said yes, to which Wade bluntly asked, “Then what’s wrong with them?”  It turned out to be a floor model that they were trying to get rid of, so they deeply discounted it.  We thought about it, put our name on it to hold it, and came back the next day with one of the chairs from our set.  It was almost a perfect match!

Now, three days later it is sitting in our dining room.  The only downfall is that the one place it logically fit in the room meant that we have to move about half of our crosses.  (Although I am not yet convinced that we won’t eventually move all of the crosses to the opposite wall.)  I am now one of those people who gets excited for the new dining room piece - as Wade likes to call it - a China Hut.  Once we make sure the lights work, I’ll actually put some of our china into it.  But for now, here’s a few pictures of the empty hutch and the room as a whole.

Posted: April 8th, 2009 under Family.
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