At The Lake (Sunroom)

The Sun room is where we really live at the lake. It started out as a screened porch with a cement floor and served as a place to gather to visit and eat for many years. About ten years ago we sheet rocked the walls, put in windows, and tiled the floor with ceramic tile.

I painted the walls a light lemon yellow and painted all the trim white.
On one wall I have a dark pine china cabinet. It is one of the first pieces we bought for our first house. It used to have glass in the doors of the upper part but I tried to move it by myself one time and now it no longer has glass. Oops! Beside it is an unfinished corner cabinet that houses the TV. I have never decided what color it is suppose to be so it is still a work in progress.

On the TV cabinet a colorful rooster crows next to a wreath made of barbwire entwined with sunflowers.

A vintage cake and pie keeper sit on top of the pine china cabinet along with a copper tankard filled with flowers.

My husband built shelves above all the windows so I could display my collection of hens and roosters.

I draped vintage napkins with red roses and some yellow flowers which I think are forsythia on the shelves to soften all the white.

My husband built this nook to house my cherished bread box. It has a history. While we were traveling in the RV I spotted it in an antique store. I didn't buy it because we were trying to travel light. I thought about it for the next 50 miles and then asked him to turn around and go back for it. As you can see he did.

At one end of the room is a kind of sitting room with a red love seat. Next to it sits a vintage kitchen table with old green paint with just a hint of red peeking from underneath. It is in found condition and it was a perfect find.

On the green table I have placed a lamp made from an old oil can, another rooster, and an old silver tray I use to hold candles.

On the other side of the love seat is an old singer treadle sewing machine, a cedar chest painted ivory and a side chair which I plan to recover.

The treadle machine displays an old Tonka farm wagon loaded with baskets of cherries which are actually a light string. I elevated it on a stack of books to give it more presence.

Always in need of storage I bought this red cabinet as an unfinished piece when I bought the TV cabinet. This is why the TV cabinet is unpainted. I have a red painted piece, a green painted piece, and an ivory chest in the room. So I don't know if I should paint the TV cabinet another color or red like the cabinet. Any suggestions?

The top of the red cabinet is home to a chicken sugar and creamer that was given to me by my SIL as a keepsake from her mother when she passed away. Things are just more special when they have belonged to someone you cared about don't you think?

So come sit awhile withe me and we will have a cup of coffee or tea. Which would you like?