Playing House

This is just a post with a few pictures of some additions to the sun room. I told y'all I was looking for some plates to replace the fruit ones that were hanging over the sofa. You can see the old plates here.
I am adding more blue to the sun room now that the green walls are gone. There is just something so appealing and fresh about blue and white. I had lots of blue and white when we first moved in our house sixteen years ago and then I started switching to reds, greens and yellows. Well, now I am adding more blue back in. What goes around comes around.

While walking around an antique mall a couple of weeks ago I lucked up on this blue and white transferware plate called Old Britain Castles. It was $12.99 for this dinner size plate. I really was trying to find two of each plate design so I kept looking around. I found another one at the same mall, but it was $26.99. Nope, nada. So the hunt continued.

This plate is old with discoloration and crazing that are not showing very well in this picture.

While hunting I happened upon two of these lunch size plates. Perfect, I'll take those.

A few days later I found two of these plates at Marshall's for $3.99 each.

After not finding a duplicate of the first transferware plate I looked on ebay and found one.

It was only $3.99! The price for shipping made up for the difference though. I ordered it and it came very quickly. It was not an old one, but you cannot tell that since it is on the wall.

I moved this bench from the stairwell to this spot in the sun room when Mr. Savvy was home healing from his back surgery. He asked me what I was doing, playing house? Yes, dear, I am playing house. That is what he says every time I start moving things around. I will share wide shots of the sun room, with the blue and white plates and the new pillows that finally came, soon.

This is the time of year when I love my sun room the most. It feels like a nice big tree house.

Have a super weekend!

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