The Red Hutch

Did I show y'all my red hutch?  When I was taking some photos of my painting that I'm working on right now, I noticed it in the background.  I also noticed alot of folks talking about showing  little corners in one's home, so I thought today I'd show you blog peeps the northeast corner of my living room.

There's this flea market downtown near the old railroad station that I like to visit from time to time.  They have lots of vendors there, and they have good sales in certain booths once in awhile, and I love to go look.  There is a vendor there that I REALLY like what she collects and what she sells.  Right down my alley. Lots of ... well, let's see.  Not really primitive altho there are a few pieces that I might consider "prim".  Old kitchen stuff, rolling pins, tins, washbowls, breadboxes, kitchen stools, old canister sets, crocks, shelves, etc.  It's very well organized.  What I love about her booth is that it's clean and neat and it's got furniture in it, too, NO JUNK (well, I take that back - all this old stuff is somebody elses' junk, right?)  And no foo-foo stuff.

She does ALOT of her pieces in RED.  I'm recently falling in love with red.  My tastes are running to more primary farm colors instead of the pinks and pale greens that I first put in this little farmhouse.  Told you I was phasing out the pinks and foo-foo stuff.  A few months ago, I was there looking and she had this old, old hutch that had been painted several times.   You can still see the white layer and the vintage light green under that red.  It's very sturdy, and when you look inside the shelves and drawers you can tell it's really primitive.  I don't know if it had glass in the top doors at one time or screen.  It could have been a pie safe on top - I'm not sure.  Now it's got a bigger gauge screen in it.

I fell in love with this silly thing and knew I had to have it.  AND it was ON SALE!  So, I bought it, called Tony and had him come down with his pickup and help me get it. He just asked me, "Now what?"  It sits here in my living room with my few pieces of ironstone and a some other items in it.  Lots of storage space in the bottom is holding household bills and files that really need to be in a file cabinet (which I don't have room for and which is also ugly).   I guess I justified getting it for that reason...  But I did get it really cheap and didn't have to do a dadgum thing to it.

Oh yeah, it's got some milkglass stuff in it too, and some platters that wouldn't fit in my pie safe in the kitchen.  Can you see that little string with the tiny clothespins on it?  At Christmas time, I hung my Christmas cards across that little clothes line.  It was very cute!

Anyway, here she is and I really like her.  Plus, with me switching to the reds, greens and gold/yellow colors of farmy-decor it fits in perfect with my house.  Think I could do a little better on the sunflowers - they were some leftovers from another project.  They look a little sad, but I'll work on that later.  It's about time for me to go back to the Flea and see what else RED that I can't live without!Ok, that's all for today.  Bye!