The Breakfast Room- One Room Challenge Week 1

There once was a house that was covered with vines considered by most to be a tear down. That house has a charming bay window that is the Breakfast Room.

Similar to the exterior  what is charming and special about the house and the Breakfast Room has been lost to 80 years of genteel  neglect and questionable aesthetic decisions. 

A  pair corner cabinets on either side of the door from the stairs. I am a big proponent of preservation but the reality is that not everything that is old and original is necessarily good case in point here. Their storage capacity for empty air line vodka bottles is huge. Some people find a stash of priceless art I get empties lifted from Delta.

This beauty. The switch makes a reassuring hissing sound every time and with out a table underneath the fixture is a hazard. The blue and green plastic blends into the blues and greens of the landscape. Children enter the room they get clipped on the noggin and adults take it right in the chest. Even though you know its there you hit it every time and every time it is a surprise with flailing and choice words.

We all want  little dungeon  with our oatmeal.  

Such attention to detail. The candle sleeve has been painted the same pistachio green as the walls.

The room has many strong points and details, arched passage ways,  solid arched wood doors, split set hardware original to the house, steel casement windows most with the original glass and size but, all the positives are lost at the moment. 

The swing will be a big one as has most of the change in the house. We have enjoyed the transformation of the house thus far and I hope you will in the coming 6 weeks enjoy this tiny transformation and those of the other participants of the Calling It Home One Room Challenge.