@home: a fresh look

We seriously rearranged the furniture for the first time since moving to our townhome in August 2007. This is the front room, which we use as the formal dining room (the table for 7 is inside the hutch on the far left). The love seat is on sliders so can be easily moved for dinners or meetings.



We use the "family/dining room" as one large living room. There's more furniture here now but since it's not positioned as "square" it seems cozier. And I finally got to use the pine sofa table I got on CL for staging a house in 2008, giving the lucky bamboo better morning sun.



And this is a picture of Sophia, taken by Ron Jelen, my father-in-law, while we visited family in Oregon over New Year weekend. He has great camera equipment, and does fabulous wildlife photos in Alaska every summer. Sophia's breed, Italian greyhound, has a need to "burrow", and one of our IG friends makes these SnuggleSax for all size dogs (and cats).