Showing posts with label Hutch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hutch. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2021

The Winter Hutch

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Two of my favorite seasons when it comes to decorating my 10-foot-wide wall unit, commonly referred to as “The Hutch,” are autumn and winter. I suppose it’s because I have so many dishes that lend themselves well to both of these seasons. The fact that they are two of my favorite times of the year may have something to do with it.

 In winter I tend to focus largely on white to represent frosty gray winter days and snow. This year I added a new tray (at center, I found it on Amazon here) and my mother’s Wilton Armetale. Lately I have become a bit obsessed with Wilton Armetale, and am lusting after this darling Sea Turtle Chip and Dip Divided Server.

Adding whimsy to this group are the elk salt and pepper shakers that you first saw in last week’s “Winter in the Woods” tablescape. I have to admit these became fast favorites despite being a bit awkward to use.

I also tend to gravitate toward pitchers, clustering them in groups of three. (I am currently stalking this one for a Bee Tablescape that I am planning for the spring.) I like to offer plenty of beverages at the table from ice water to ice tea to juice, even mulled wine. There’s something about the relaxing process of sipping something delicious that makes a shared meal so relaxing.

Touches of green keep the silver and white from becoming boring. The texture provided by the mini pine tree gives it warmth.

Do you change up your hutches, buffets, sideboards, or china cabinets with the seasons?

 

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Top Ten Posts of 2019

It's time for my year-end wrap-up featuring the 10 most popular posts of 2019. It's a tasty assortment I think, nicely varied, and it tells me a couple of things. First of all, that you loved my Spinach Artichoke Grilled Cheese (me too!). That won by a landslide. For the second time, no tablescapes made it into the top ten spot, but, yet again, you enjoyed seeing my hutch.

Thanks to all of you who visit my blog, I really appreciate having you here. To see the blog post and recipe associated with each of these pictures (shown in descending order of popularity), click on the title below the photo and it will take you directly to the post.

Happy viewing, and have a wonderful New Year!
















Monday, November 27, 2017

Hutch! Hutch! Hooray! (and HELP!)

I have a huge respect for those of you who read my blog. Respect, and tremendous appreciation. I find all of you to be a caring, clever, creative, and artistic group, each one with his or her own sense of style, many of whom express that style through personal blogs. Because I have such a high regard for each and every one of you, as well as an admiration for the things that you do in your own homes, I'm asking for your help.

I went out on a limb, as I tend to do more often than I care to admit, and bought a piece of furniture, sight unseen. Well, I saw it in the catalog, immediately fell in love with it, and I knew absolutely that it was what I wanted because it managed to replicate a scrapbook full of pictures that I have pinned over the past 10 years. I even saw something similar in Mycroft’s kitchen in an episode of "Elementary."

I knew when I saw this that it was the piece. It was what I wanted. It was what I needed. It was what I had pined for. It was also on sale, a BIG sale, which is why I bought it. It will be arriving next week, and I want your help in decorating it.

Here it is (although I bought one that is black), in all its glory, 75 inches high, by 112 inches wide, by 18 inches deep. I am desperately (as you can well imagine, dish collector that I am) in need of the additional storage space, but I want it to be pretty as well, and I want to be able to change it up with the seasons. As a consequence of this purchase, a lot of things had to be carried downstairs (thank you number two son!), including my baker’s rack, a piece that has been with me for more than thirty years -- historically the first thing that I decorate every holiday season -- so there was a bit of melancholy in carting it out of the room.
The wall on which the baker’s rack stood also held a Windsor bench, a large picture, a bamboo screen, and my menu man. It was just way too busy for me, and a wall that had perplexed me from the day I moved into this house nearly six years ago.

So, tell me what you think. What would you do with a hutch like this? What would you put on top? What would you put in the cabinets with the glass doors? What would you put on the shelves? What would you put in the center bar area? You tell me, and I'll show you what I eventually do. Is it a deal?

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