The Entry

Hi, there! Hope everyone is having a happy Monday. Today I thought I'd join up at Cottage and Vine's Room by Room series and let you have a peek at my entryway. The entry serves as a welcoming avenue into the home, and I like to keep mine simple, functional and inviting.

Since we have such a large entry, I moved this antique sideboard to serve as extra storage and a drop off station for mail



If you live in a historic home like me, it is important that you retain and preserve the original entrance door to your home as much as you can. As the architectural styles from various eras are distinctly different, likewise so are their front doors. So, for example you wouldn't want to take a salvaged door from a Queen Anne style house and use it on a Craftsman Bungalow, or transfer an entry door from a Tudor Revival style house to an early twentieth century North Carolina Triple-A farmhouse. If you are unsure of what style door would be appropriate for your historic home, consult some architectural history books from your local library or contact a local architectural historian who can point you in the right direction.

The antique sideboard provides extra space for dishes and glassware that
cannot fit in my china cabinet



Sometimes I like to display my husband's great grandfather's antique highball
set in the window sill above the sideboard.



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Farmers' Market Goodies

This morning we visited the locally famous Carrboro Farmers' Market and came back with some colorful, tasty veggies and beautiful flowers.

We have only picked one of our heirloom tomatoes to date (I am letting it ripen in the window sill above the kitchen sink), so I wanted to stock up on the gorgeous varieties of tomatoes from the market in case our plants don't produce too well this year. I bought pink heirlooms, mini cherokee purple tomatoes, and sungolds.  Along with the tomatoes I decided to pick up some little orange sweet peppers and banana peppers.

The flowers were also home grown and look wonderful on my new farmhouse dining table.

Have a wonderful weekend!