Good idea, Valinsn, but I need the top to store my silver, china, crystal, etc. That is what appeals to me - the top has four shelves for storage/display and the base has dividers for trays, platters, as well as pull-out shelves. I will utilize every inch of the space. My china closet only has three shelves and it is not as wide. Great idea, though, for a curio cabinet. I am inheriting another piece similar to a curio cabinet without the glass. New hardware is a must! The more I think about it, the more I want it. It holds so many memories of family dinners, wedding showers, baby showers, Christmas eve dinner, etc. I am not one for matchy-matchy or a contrived look and I do like blending antiques with newer 18th century pieces.

I have a stupid question to ask (I live in the cold, flat part of Canada, so forgive me) - if hurricane Harvey is 'gifting' you a new roof, isn't there a risk that the river rock would one day be picked up and thrown at your windows??? It's too bad the driveway likely cant be adjusted - currently you drive up, park, and cant see the front door until you walk around the garage, that's less welcoming than ideal. The back of your house looks like an oasis - lovely! The front seems to be lacking the large windows that the back has (perhaps due to privacy)? I'd suggest - paint that garage door to match the trim color, and if you can afford it, contemplate a garage door with windows to make the front look less like a 'wall' (is that a window on the right between the two stone columns?) - change the front door to one with more glass, possibly enlarging the opening to make it taller, using similar shape/muntins as the rear windows - since you have a fairly 'island/nautical' theme going on in the back with the rock+faux-dock-path, I'd suggest replacing the 90deg square path from garage to house with something more natural-form, and possibly in similar materials. I almost wonder if a post-and-heavy-saggy-rope-fence along the edge of the driveway would help carry that same feeling (and then break it to have a gap where the walking path would be)

The house is in New Brunswick, Canada about 400 miles north of me but there are a few of these near me as well. I could drive 400 miles in a north easterly direction and still be in Texas! I've made that drive [edited to add: I can't tell east from west, apparently; I've driven north westerly lol], and the historic architecture is mostly Victorian, Craftsman, and a few small Tudors. Lots of folk Victorian around here. Which is pretty, no doubt. It was just surprising to me; I expected more "Texas ranch," whatever that was, lol. [Edit #2: I could be in another country if I drove 700 miles down, and through, Brownsville. :-D Okay, okay, I could go to Mexico via Laredo at 250 miles, but 700 is so much more impressive.]

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