I have a lot of trouble judging new furniture. We always had station wagons, the better to bring antiques home in, and they might as well have had "I brake for antique stores" bumper stickers on them. My mother's passions were antiques, architecture and sewing. I bought my first antique furniture as a teenager with my saved allowance, and the only furniture I've bought new is bookshelves. Once new furniture gets above a certain price point, I start thinking, "But there's this [link] this [link] this [link] and this [link] Also, not a practical size, but droolworthy and a steal [link] I am aware that I'm not being helpful.

Wow, shrift, if you buy the art deco table, I'll happily borrow my sister's SUV and drive up to Pt Reyes Station with you to get it!

Ginger, I wish you could come with me to the Alameda Flea Market in October. It's only once per month, and I'm hoping to get my new dining room table there. I'm looking for a drop-leaf table that I can seat 6 at when opened, but will work just for me in the breakfast nook.

I'm still looking at other options that are less than half of the Room and Board table. I have total decision fatigue and can't handle the idea of shopping for used furniture right now. I may just put off the kitchen table decision until later when I hopefully will have more spoons.

Walls and cabinets the same colour would be fine.

If you're doing a neutral colour, you could always pick something in the mushroom-y colours of your counter, comme ca: [link]

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I do like the yellow. Blue and yellow says French to me.

mac and I went through all of his clothes. 2/3 of them are to get rid of. crazy.

I wish I could, Consuela.

I like the idea of a pale buttery yellow. I've never been much on white with cream. Sometimes it works and sometimes it looks like a mistake. While I like grays with that color blue, they might not go with the yellow in the oak. Color is hard.

Hmm, I really like this yellow, and it looks like it would go well. But I've learned the colors on the website are really REALLY not to be trusted; I'll have to get another pint to make sure.

SO COMPLICATED.

It really is decision-fatigue. I end up just jumping so I can be done, rather than perfect.

I end up just jumping so I can be done, rather than perfect.

I identify with this SO HARD right now.

I'm catching up with an online course about popularity while I wander through my bedroom finding more things to throw away. How do I have so many things? How.

Things multiply when you're not looking. Left alone, especially in a drawer or closet, things, within a matter of weeks, will have tripled or even quadrupled in number.