Anatomy of a Model Home - “The INSPIRATION”
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Years ago, I found a gorgeous, camelback settee in a wonderful red & gold tapestry fabric at Weir’s, one of my favorite places to shop for furniture. It had just been placed on the floor, and when I came through the front door of the store, it took my breath away. I couldn’t imagine how I would ever be able to use it; it was too small for a gathering room, and too formal for a study. But I HAD to have it! I’d just have to find a way to use it somewhere! And I did. I loved it so much that I ordered a second one, identical to the first. Then I had a 6 foot square formal dining table custom made with a maple top, and four amazingly handsome stairway newel posts as legs. I placed the two settees on opposite sides of the square table, with two chairs on each of the two remaining sides. It looked fantastic!!! And although using settees as dining room seating is increasingly popular in 2009, it was a rare idea in 1998 when this photo was taken in our model home at Lakes on Legacy in Frisco.
That chance find of a single red settee became the INSPIRATION for an entire model home! As You’ll see below:
But that was many years ago. NEXT time we’ll get back to Linda and Mike!