Dining in Style...

So around the time I started looking for a couch... which was probably a little over a year ago... I also saw a dining room suite that I really liked.  At the time, purchasing a major furniture group was not something I wanted to tackle. 

Dining room furniture, especially formal dining room furniture is not the sort of thing one rushes into buying.  Buying a dining room suite is one of the most adult purchases you are going to make.  It goes like this:  1) house, 2) car, 3) dining room suite.  So maybe not always in that order... but you get what I mean.  This is not a impulse buy... this has to be well thought out and considered for many months... at least when you're me.

For me I was not interested in an overly ornate suite nor did I want an overly traditional suite as my taste tends to lend towards to more contemporary-traditional than traditional.  Most of what I have looked at over the last year has not been formal enough or was the complete opposite-- very heavy in appearance and overly decorated with brass hardware and bold carvings.

A little over a year ago, I saw the above suite from Better Homes and Gardens Fine Furniture by Universal at Whitley Galleries.  I immediately was drawn to the X-back chairs and how that detail was mirrored in the hutch.  Another plus-- the hardware on the suite was not bright brass and very minimal in size and scale.  My walls in my dining room are metallic silver and in my opinion bright brass hardware would not be as nice next to metallic silver walls.

So when I got a letter in the mail advertising a sale at Whitley Galleries, I jumped on the idea of finally getting the above suite.

But then I got to Whitley Galleries and they didn't have any pieces of the suite on the showroom floor except the round version of this table and the captain chairs that I was not interested in purchasing.  The idea of buying something that I haven't seen in well over a year, except in pictures didn't appeal to me.  We've got to buy a crib and baby bedding and all sorts of other things and putting money down, hard earned money, on something sight-unseen... well, that wasn't going to happen.

I was depressed about the situation... I felt like I had missed my chance at a really good deal on the one dining room suite that I actually liked.  So my mother suggested that I call around and see if there were any other furinture companies that carried this brand or particular suite... if nothing else, I'd get to see it again and really decide if it was the one I wanted to get...eventually.

Turns out Bullard Furniture had the hutch and buffet in stock and on the showroom floor... and they were having a very similar sale as Whitley Galleries... so I decided to bite the bullet and purchase the dining room suite, of course after going and seeing it.

I'm excited to say that by the end of the summer I will have my hutch and buffet (coming next week) and I will have my table and six side chairs!  I'm so happy this worked out and I can finally check this off my house list.

On to nursery...