out with the old and in with the older

 

Happy Tuesday, friends! I made a change in my home this weekend, and I wanted to share it here, since it feels significant because of the fact that I made the decision completely on my own. When I moved into this house twenty one years ago, most of the furniture came from my family. My mom had given me her dining room table and hutch when I got married, and I am so grateful to her for doing that! Truth be told, I was ready to change it up after all the years I've had it. Here's what it looked like before...

I decided to try to sell it on Facebook marketplace. Someone came to pick it up on Sunday, and I couldn't be happier! I cleaned everything out and found new homes for things, weeding out what needed to be recycled because of chipped sides (coffee mugs mostly), and waited for Jonah to come home to help me with bringing in what I was going to be put back in its place. 

This is the hutch that sat in my dad's house. I love it so much! I love that we're all about keeping things in the family, you know? This was something he purchased from an antique store, and I think it's beautiful. On the bottom shelf are all the Christmas dishes that I use, and the other shelves hold the pottery that I've had for twenty-eight years, glasses that are never used, and some decorative plates that also came from Dad's. Yesterday I added my grandmother's China as well, and I have a few pieces propped up on the back for display. 

I love how it turned out! Even more than that, I love having another piece of my dad's belongings here with me. I love how cleaned out and organized it looks with things prettily displayed, and I loved that this was a big change that I made on my own for the first time. I didn't run it by anyone, I just did it by myself. Well, also thanks to Jonah and his friends who got this thing inside and put together again. It brings me great joy to change things up in my home to make it more of what I love and what works for my current (new) life. 

Thanks for reading my blog today, friends! I'm linking up with Joanne for this post. Love to all!

Jenn 🖤