The Family

We know some folks that have recently moved into the Austin area.  When they moved up here, they already had a vacation home in the area.  Being that they wanted to be able to come to their vacation home to relax, it was totally furnished.  This worked well when they maintained two houses.  However, they wanted to sell their old house.  They sold off quite a bit of their furnature and a buyer requested that the rest of it stay in the house as part of the purchase.  Christina and I are one of the people who bought up some of their old furniture.

We bought two pieces of furniture from them: a table and a display cabinet.  They are both well taken care of.  The table shows more wear, which I would expect, but it isn’t anything that we mind.  (although one of their kids had a heavy hand when doing math homework; you can see their work on the table)

Here’s a few pictures:

Note the chairs laying on the floor.  We got a full six chair set with the table.  The table is about three inches longer than our old table, and this one has a leaf insert to make it even larger.  Next time everyone is at our house, there will be no problems getting everyone space at the table.

This is a closeup of the top.  Note that there are lights built in.  There are two lights in the top, and two lights in the bottom (not in this picture).  The shelves are glass.  Two of the middle shelves were broken when the previous owner was trying to take them out for the move.  I didn’t expect it, but he is going to get us new glass shelves to put in there.

Here’s another shot with the camera’s exposure time turned down a bit to see detail in the couple of items we’ve put up there.

The most awesome part of this was the price for these two solid wood, quality construction pieces:  price of rental truck to go pick them up, gas to put in the rental truck, and our time.