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Display Name: Maxine
Member Since: 8/1/07
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You've asked a big, soul searching question about making the decision to purge 30 plus years of family history.

We all may come to the same place (i.e. paring down our 'things') via our own unique circumstances. Mine had to do with losing my husband and having my children grow up and leave home. I didn't do anything rash but rather, over the course of a couple of years, I came to the decision that living with all that I'd accumulated wasn't emotionally healthy for me nor was it practical. I took my time and carefully went through all of the family's possessions. I realized that I could give up possessions without giving up wonderful memories. I was also fortunate that my art represented many of those wonderful memories and that is what I chose to keep. Moving to an apartment from a house also reinforced the need for this decision. The end result turned out to be better than I'd imagined. I actually feel 'lighter' and freer, having not realized that I wasn't 'light' and 'free'.

Your positive comments are also so generous and heartwarming and I thank you one and all.

Maxine


Apartment Therapy - Inside Out: Maxine Maximizes Luxury
10/15/07 6:07 PM

To respond to the question about the lighting - The angle of the photo is a little misleading. The pendant light is one of two that hang over the kitchen island. The larger, hanging light is in the eating area and the track lighting is in the living room area - the spacing is in better proportion to the space than what it appears to be.

Maxine


Apartment Therapy - Inside Out: Maxine Maximizes Luxury
10/15/07 5:50 PM

The dining table is, in fact, Roche Bobois. When in its smaller version, the legs form an 'X' and when the table is expanded, the legs form a parentheses shape.


Inside Out: Maxine Maximizes Luxury
8/3/07 12:24 PM

The living room table, as was much of the furniture, was bought at Roche Bobois.


Inside Out: Maxine Maximizes Luxury
8/1/07 8:16 PM

Oops, I missed the question about the dishes. The company is Riverside Design. They are the manufacturer and their website lists where you can find distributors thruout the U.S. The dishes are sea glass and come in a variety of colors.


Inside Out: Maxine Maximizes Luxury
8/1/07 5:24 PM

I've just taken a look at all of your comments and want to express my thanks for some of the lovely compliments made and to also offer some information, in response to questions asked.

The dining table, as shown, has two glass circles with one laying on top of the other. There is a tool, used at the base, that allows first raising one circle from the surface of the other and then rotating that second surface so that it gets positioned next to the first surface. The tool then allows you to lower the second glass circle so that the two circles lay next to each other, at the same level, thereby creating a figure '8'. This will comfortably seat 6 people.

The linen was purchased at Bloomingdales.

The art has been collected over a period of approximately 35 years, mostly from travels with my husband. The moose (a candle) came from San Francisco and the paintings and sculpture from Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Dubrovnik, Greece, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Israel and South Africa. There are also some pieces from the DC area. The best part of having this collection are the memories associated with finding' there are some very special stories associated with some of them. Disposing of other 'things' that we had in a household for four of us over a period of 30 years seemed daunting at the time but creating this new space for myself to house the art that represented a wonderful marriage was a labor of love.

I'm happy to answer any other questions.


Inside Out: Maxine Maximizes Luxury
8/1/07 5:22 PM