On Sun 13 Jan 2008 07:35:27p, Puester told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:46:24p, Dee.Dee told us...
>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message >
>>>> We have some nice shops and design studios here, but 90% of what I buy
>>>> is from NYC where I still know dealers.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Wayne Boatwright
>>>
>>> That's fantastic!
>>>
>>> When we lived in Hawaii, we lived the last months in a high rise. A guy
>>> moved in adjacent and immediately started remodeling. When he went to
>>> buy his furniture, he took a trip to North Carolina and had it all
>>> shipped to Oahu. He invited me in to see it after it was completed, I
>>> was interested in the furniture he had picked.
>>>
>>> What he had chosen was mostly a mixture of French Provincial and Ethan
>>> Allen type furniture, but he had put a fake fireplace in the living
>>> room. The condo was wall-to-wall furniture. Guess he had over-bought
>>> - :-)) The prices ARE good in NC, I've heard.
>>
>
>
> Yuch! As much as I like traditional furniture, I can't see using it in
> the tropics.
> It always made me sad to visit old friends who had retired from New
> England to
> Florida, taking their heavy, dark furniture with them. It looked out of
> place, incongruous
> with the lush surroundings and indoor-outdoor living.
>
> gloria p
>

Living in the Arizona desert, we have a quasi mix of desert southwest and
antiques. It seems to work well.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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Date: Sunday, 01(I)/13(XIII)/08(MMVIII)
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