When we first planned the room, we knew that this room with the fireplace was going to be a room we used a lot since it’s right next to the kitchen. We have called it several things, including the library annex, the warming room, the media room, and the living room. The room has both our sofa and a love seat, plus my slide rocker (which I have become quite attached to) and several pet beds. It also contains the stereo and other electronics, a TV, my Xbox 360, and all of our music CD collection.
This window looks out over the tiny strip between us and our neighbor Mary’s yard. Her bird feeders are visible from this window and so both Brienne and Violet like to sit on the cat tree or on the sill to watch kitty TV. This cat tree is one of Brienne’s favorite places in the house. She sleeps somewhere on the tree almost daily.
The broadside is from Parson Brownlow’s tour of the North in the spring and summer of 1862, and the small print of him is from Harper’s Weekly from that time. The speaker wire for the surround sound is exposed because there was nowhere for it to go.
On this wall, (starting clockwise from lower left) is a photo of Major General William Starke Rosecrans, mounted above his autograph. Then my Don Troiani print of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain when he was a lieutenant colonel, then a photo of Sojourner Truth mounted above her commemorative stamp, then a photo of Harriet Tubman, then three excellent facsimiles of antislavery broadsides from Boston in the 1850’s. The couch is covered with dachshund pillows (used by dachshunds AND they have pictures of dachshunds on them) plus a couple of blankets. Lilo LOVES to sit up there with Kelly.
So it’s a start! I will do another 1st floor room sometime soon.
-Geoff
