Our new dining area. Long gone is the table with 10 extensions in dark wood that made the room look like a refectory. Its so much cosier now, we can have 8 sitting down tightly or else we just sit casually around the room which is also fun. My mother gave me her thirty year old white bamboo chairs which are as cool now as they were in Biarritz where they came from. I painted them petrol blue in a water-based shiny paint. The table is a 3-legged B&B modern design from Ricard´s bachelor days. The chinoiserie screen has two tones of Cole & Son wallpaper (I put wheels at the base so it can be moved around) and the peice de resistance - my sister Sofia Leitão´s fabulous oil paintings. The Eames red chair was a wedding present and I love the contrast it makes, when we aren´t giving glamourous gourmet dinner parties I take over the table and mess it up with my work things.
Carpets are a no no, as our dogs Carmen and Zeus are dead against them, and they make strategic wees in impossible to clean places, so it was the dogs or carpets...no brainer and lesson expensivley learned.
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