Glad you all enjoyed the bit of warmth! Nancyjean, I'm kinda glad I don't have to shovel, but I do miss the snow! Jeanne, you are an amazing photographer! I LOVE that pic. I've saved several of your bluejay and cardinal pics as screen savers, have a screen saver program that rotates pics, and they come up every so often. I now have a new pic to add! THANKS! To those who mentioned the gnome house - I love it, too. I used the bark of a native called a paperbark - the bark peels off the tree and is wonderfully soft - on the roof. I applied several coats of marine varnish but the bark seems to repel the stuff. Weird, huh? Jan, it's nice to be back. I know I don't come round much, but you are all in my thoughts, and always in my heart!

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Thank you guys so much for all the advice and inspiration pics! I'm still confused, but now I have stuff to think about! Part of the problem is that the room is not very big - about 11.5 x 15.5. My piano is a 6'5" grand, so basically, if I move it in there, there's no hope for fitting in a table or dining area (though I'll be freeing up the living room for a "kids table" if I need it). There are a ton of doorways and windows in the room as well which might make building shelves a little difficult. I'm going to post some old pics because my camera is broken and there are all I can find that show the dining room - maybe you guys can guage better than me (I'm terrible at space planning) what I can actually fit into a room like this. Here is the dining room looking towards the kitchen. We have since closed that pass-hrough window, so now that is a solid wall. That corner is the biggest expanse of solid wall and measures about 5 ft x 7 ft (the former pass through is the 7ft wall). The drywall patch for the pass through still needs some help so this might be a good place to put built ins, LOL! The table you see off to the left is the farmhouse table I had purchsed for the dining room - it has leaves you can insert to make it longer so at the smallest (shown) it measures 3 ft x 5ft and it expands out to a little over 8 ft long. I'm not set on using it - I'm sure I could resell it if I decide to go with something different. This is the rest of the room. There are two windows on the left wall, with about 46" of wall space between them. The corner cabinet is currently living in the far left corner (again the pics are old so it's not there -- and I'm amazed at how many more toys we have now than when these pics were taken - eek!!!). The computer desk table is not needed downstairs and can stay or I can sell it or use it on the screen porch. The wall where the computer desk is measures a little over 7 ft and the adjoining corner wall is a little less than 4 ft. So the corner cabinet can move to any of the 3 corners shown in the pics (the last pic was taken from the 4th corner, which is where the doorway is to the kitchen in the first pic). Any suggestions for where to put built in shelves, a small but expandable table and/or a 6'5" piano are most appreciated! I am, as I said above, awful at spatial stuff - I can't picture anything until I see it in real life. So all guidance is most welcome!

NHB: it is fine dining and the most special part is the farm to table aspect. Almost all of his suppliers are a few minutes away. Meats, poultry and vegetables, cheese etc all come from right in the area. He is thrilled , to say the least. You can check their blog on the website and see his latest menus and the wine dinner menu. He actually went to the farm that supplies the ducks and geese and he and the owner did the slaughtering right before Thanksgiving. He was able to get tons of fat from the ducks and is in " confit heaven" LOL. Bonnie, caminnc and sandy.....oh my what gorgeous pics. So serene. Beautiful . tina: we travelled up there to see them several times in the year they were there but not in the dead of winter. We loved the area. I am really looking forward to seeing the beautiful scenery of his new location. c