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Hey everybody! Thank you for the nice comments about our house! We are so comfortable here and if the dining room was bigger, we could have you all over for dinner!

The Ikea butcher block is great. To maintain it, we just clean it and put some mineral oil on it a couple times per year. We do our chopping on a cutting board to keep the surface flat and we don't worry about stains. As a matter of fact, I did some passive aggressive spills and burns by mistakeonpurpose to get us past that first blemish. The sooner you get to the point where you aren't so concerned, the better. Besides, a ring builds character.

The little wood car with the trailer is from a company called Sirch. We got it from our favorite furniture store in NYC called Regeneration.

The globe light in the dining room is trick photography. It is actually a super cheap chinatown paper lantern. $1.79.

Thanks everybody!