Columbia County Living – Page 71 – Columbia County Current

Roaring Rapids Across Chatham

After the weekend’s biblical downpour, I’m thinking of building an ark of my own. We had so much rain on Saturday that the ground level raised to a point where the water began pouring in through our basement window sill. On an emergency run to the hardware store, we noticed that many homes along 295 in Chatham were surrounded by water. Hopefully you managed to stay high and dry and lets hope for a drier week ahead.

Trendy – Foo Dogs

Foo Dogs keep popping up in stores all over the place. Williams Sonoma has an incredible pair of Foo Dog lamps and we just found a set of white ceramic Foo Dogs at Z Gallerie.

They are ceramic and 13″ tall so they will make a dramatic statement wherever you place them. It looks like they are sold in a set of two for $88.90, which is a great deal. Click here to buy.

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My Country Home: The Study

We are slowly but surely getting the study in order here at our new house. Eventually, this room will have a corner lined in book shelves and lots of heavy wood and leather chairs. For now, I’ve got my home office set up with a fire going and I just looked out the window to see that it’s snowing … again. It has been about four days since the last heavy snowfall so I guess I should have expected it. Thank god I bought a case of wine.

I’m not sure if you can see the snow in this picture but this is the view from my desk here in the study.

Uh-oh, I better throw another log on the fire.

– Jeff

Guest Blogger: CC’s Bargain Queen alert

I love a sale! Check out Pottery Barn’s latest 75% off sale. This is one of my favorite finds:

Natural cork is the perfect material for our new candle pot. Sustainable, easy to recycle and environmentally friendly, it’s also naturally beautiful. Our candle pot is filled with the calming scent of wild fern and wrapped with a monogrammable sleeve of genuine cork, combining aroma and texture into one sensory package. 3.5″ diam., 3″ h.

Monogrammed and $14.00…sold!

-CC

Our Country Home: Dining Area Before & After

As I’ve mentioned here before, the better half and I recently purchased our first home. Our house, BeachWood, was a flip and while the sellers did a great job gutting and modernizing the house, it was way too white and bland for us. Its been a little over a month since we moved in and the makeover is coming along great. Following is the first in a series as we go about turning this house into our home.

Dining Area Before:

Dining Area After:

The layout of our house consists of a large open floor plan so we decided to create separate areas within the large room. The dining area is actually 1/3 of the entire room.

We still need to add a rug under the table and a large plant in the corner to truly finish the area. Following is a picture taken without the flash to give you a better sense of what the area looks like at night.