Garden Room China Cupboard with Transferware

This cabinet used to be known as the Kitchen China Cupboard, but now it's going to have to be known as the Garden Room China Cupboard since it's not technically in the Kitchen any longer. It's really wonderful having all this extra space and the windows out here. I hadn't wanted to have anything blocking the light, but I didn't have the right spot other than this. 

I have to admit, I'm officially "over" opening boxes of dishes, decor, pottery, silver, and whatever else I might have packed away over this last 10 months. I can live a long time and never have the desire to rip into a U-Haul Cardboard Box again. A few weeks ago, I was excited about getting all my vintage loot into it's new home, but now... I hope I'm done.

It was fun, but now I'm out of space and wondering how on earth I got so much into our other place. I did have a lot of stuff in the bar area cabinets downstairs, so that's probably it. I also had a small Butler's Pantry with deep shelves that held a surprising amount. My Dish Closet isn't totally organized, but good enough for now. Reorganizing it might be a good winter project.

I had this Cupboard pretty well put together last week, but it looked a little bland so I added small bunches of faux flowers to a few creamers. Just enough to add a little sunshine-y Spring color.

...and my cows are back!

This is the majority of my transferware collection. As I've said, it's just bits and pieces of many different patterns. Right now I'm displaying the Brown Transferware, but toward Christmas I'll change things around and highlight the Red Transferware pieces.

This dining area is right off the Kitchen and Hearth Room, so it's just a few steps to bring a plate and drink. We haven't used it much, since we eat breakfast and lunch at the island/bar, but when we have family here we'll use it.

I ordered new tab top curtain panels today, so we'll see how those turn out. This is a patio sliding door, so the combined panels had to be 160x84. The only color available that would work was the solid khaki, so I'm hoping it will not be too dark or clash with the wall and brick color. These current  curtains are really functional, but the print is sort of a 50's barkcloth palm trees and it's just not "me".

I had a metal lantern sitting here last week, 

but changed out a few things to keep this space neutral in shades of white/cream.

I'm hoping to have the covered porch looking presentable soon. I still have a few pots to plant out and my potting bench to spiff up, but I'm getting there. I guess that I probably won't be "finished" any time soon in any area of this place, so I'll just share the work in progress. Sunday afternoon we realized our outside unit of the main AC wasn't working so we're on a list for hopefully today or tomorrow. After complaining about the cool temps this last few weeks, I'm now hoping it won't get too warm this week.  Hope you had a good Mother's Day weekend and you're off to a good start.

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