Susan..Did you get every Hoya he has? lol...you're finished ordering, RIGHT!! :) j/k. I say the same, then, either someone discusses a plant, a pic is posted, or while searching for one, another, 'I JUST HAVE TO HAVE, is sought. Besides Accents, Ebay is addicting, and many many beautiful greens are for sale. If you seriously don't want to add more plants, stay away from Ebay. lol Karen, sorry about your Accent plants. Did you notify Accents? Accents usually has two names printed on the pot..Common, then in small lettering, above the common name, is its Botanical name. Except for a few Begonias, I always find the common names by Googling. Cowboyflowerman has decent plants, too. I've bought several plants from him the last 4-5, maybe longer years..Including Hoyas. Come to think of it, my all green Sweetheart/Heart Leaf (Kerri) and reversed color H. Kerri, may be misspelled, came from Cowboy. The green was purchased many years ago, from his site, prior to him selling on Ebay. Throughout purchases, I've only had order problem, but I didn't leave neg feedback. It was a mistake, no biggie..the Philo sent was nice, too..just not the plant I wanted.. So, you're right again..I guess this is what makes a horse race..:) Toni

Hi Lynn - We really do like the Turbochef. The "regular" oven is quite good, and I use that frequently. My favourite things to make in the speed oven are roast chicken (delicious and juicy in 25 minutes) and things like roasted veggies or fish. I can get home from work and have dinner on the table in 45 minutes, including all the prep. A couple of niggles. Because the temp settings on the oven are on a dial, to go with the retro design, you can't calibrate temperatures. For instance, if a recipe calls for 225F, I can only choose 200 or 250. The increments are more like an old-fashioned oven. So, for instance I don't have 225F, 275F or 475F. Now, I've never had a digital temp dial but I am assuming that I would have more room for calibration. The other thing is the cleaning. Even though it has a self clean feature I have been advised (by the folks at TC) not to use it. The ceramic plate gets quite dirty. One trick I learned about from this forum is to put 1/2 c of ammonia in a glass bowl and leave it in the oven overnight. The fumes break down the accumulated build up. Re: induction. I learned about induction through the appliance forum and while intrigued, I didn't want to fully commit, esp. as I had always envisioned a gas range. Plus DH really wanted gas (what is it with men and fire?) I love having both. The induction gives me a bare whisper of heat for super slow or low simmering, which I can't get with gas, and we have recently sarted using our gas grill more frequently with great results. I love the combination! HTH, Lynn - happy to answer any other q's. Eliz

Mclarke, thanks so much for your sweet consideration! Linda, sorry about that... I can't move the coffee table by myself; it weighs a ton. Maybe this picture of the chair will help. The sofa has the same carved wood pieces on the lower front, and a leg in the middle. Thank you for the date range. Anele, thanks! I'm relieved to hear you say it's not stuffy. I also worried that sofa would look like it came out of a saloon on Bonanza -- what we in our family call "early whore decor!" hehe I think I did consider a leopard rug, yes. What a memory you have! I stumbled upon the rug you see there late one night on CL and instantly emailed the guy. He let that rug go for $50 because he was in a hurry to get out of town. I thought I would look forever to find a rug that went okay with both the FC and the sofa. The picture in his ad was horrid. I almost didn't go to see it but then thought I'd be crazy not to go. One look, and even though it was dirty, I knew it was perfect. So I grabbed it and one more rug from him (the one in my DR) and ran! Got 'em home and immediately shampooed them both and they look brand new. I have seen a few of those FCs on line... not exactly like mine, but somewhat. I think they are fairly rare. The onew I've seen have been more Eastlake style. I paid $500 for it out of the Little Nickel many years ago. It had just been reupholstered in fabric that did it NO favors, and I promptly reupholstered it myself to look like this... Oh, you will really laugh at this. The oval on the back was not diamond tufted when I bought the piece. I phoned my local Hancock's and they said come in Wednes and ask for Debbie so I did and she showed me how to sew the diamonds. I covered my own buttons. I didn't want to drill holes in the back of the "headboard" piece. So I put a cardboard backing on the oval and pulled the buttons tight through the cardboard. I couldn't figure out how to anchor the buttons, so I anchored them to bobby pins! Then I stapled the oval on and hot guled the trim around it and nobody was the wiser. lol! I told this upholsterer that and I forgot to as him what he anchored to, but I'll bet he used my same piece of matt board. I loved that fabric on it. It made the wood just sing. But it clashed with my newly recovered red sofa. I had a pro do it this time, as a bracing board that ran the whole length of it was worm eaten and had broken. I lacked the tools and skills to repair that. The upholstery guy replaced that rotten board and made sure the whole thing was sound again, and retied some of the springs as well, and new padding so it's more comfy. Here is the chair that goes with the sofa: I forgot to mention that the FC folds out into an early version of a hide-a-bed. Whatever matress was there is long gone. It hinges at the front two corners, and you open it by grabbing the seat in the back (where seat meets back) and pull up, forward and down. It rests on the hump on the left and the right side sort of floats up in the air with no support, so I imagine your head would go on the hump end and your feet on the floating end, and it would have slept two. The carving on the lower front isn't really carving; it's pressed. The carving on the back is separate pieces attached. So I know it was not an expensive piece in its time, but I just love it to bits and will never part with it if I can help it, except to my kids. Do you need some more or different angle pictures? Or does the picture of the chair clear up the mystery of what you can't see of the sofa? Tishtosh, thank you! The velvet wears well -- it's the same thing they put in the antique British sports cars, and in the old movie theaters. Remember the scratchy velvet we sat on in the theaters in our shorts as kids? Well, that's it, except it comes in different grades I think. Mine isn't scratchy like that... but the old velvet covering was softer. Mohair velvet sells for about $300/yard. I was lucky to find enuf for both sofa and chair for $300 on eBay one blue moon day. My first reupholstery job on sofa and chair were regular upholstery velvet and it wore really well. Do NOT use a steam cleaner on it!! I have a young Wheaten who jumps on this all the time, so I usually keep it covered with a croched granny square afghan of about the same color, plus a kind of a wool shawl thing I throw over the back of it. For kids and spilled coffee, you can't go wrong with a chenille tapestry like I have on the FC. Those wear like iron and show nothing!

Thanks for all the responses. You have given me a lot to mull over but alas, not a consensus! You all seem about as evenly split as my thinking has been! If it's any help, here's a pic of the new chairs with the pillows and throw from the other chairs. My pillow and throw selection is a bit lacking, but it might give you an idea. Not sure the throw and pillows help. I do think that the new chairs are a bit more sophisticated than my decorating style -- the New York City apartment is a great comparison (as I studied the pictures I posted, I was thinking they looked like something Emily Henderson would put in her Hollywood-rich-people makeovers.) My house is a farmhouse with wide-width pine floors and pretty much all the furniture is vintage/antique and kind of country/shabby/farmhouse in style. I'm just not sure the new chairs fit with the style. (But then again, maybe my style could use some shaking-up!) Also Ingrid - the coffee table is a chest brought back from China by a relative. It has odd Chinese paintings on it featuring little bald people with fishing poles. I hated it at first and had planned to paint the whole thing black but over time the paintings have grown on me. And though you can't tell in the picture, that exact shade of turquoise is in the rug. Really the rug has pretty much every shade in the room which I guess is handy for giving lots of choices for accessorizing -- and my accessorizing skills can clearly use all the help they can get!