craigslist score!

I've been wanting a piece of furniture for our dining room for some time now--something with doors, so we could have some more storage that no one could see, LOL. Our dining room functions as the catch-all room, since we never eat there (we have our small 6-person table in there), and the table is pretty much the only surface in there, so it is always so cluttered. I didn't want a classic hutch with glass doors, because I don't really have anything I want to display like that. Mainly I want to hide stuff.

I've been looking at thrift stores and on craigslist off and on, but I never really found anything. Bob looked Friday night, and he found this beautiful piece for $275! Amazingly, we were the first to respond, and we went to look at it Sunday afternoon. The people lived in Bethesda, actually closer to us than the hospital. We brought both vans so that we could take it home if we liked it, which we did! Ed and Zachary were kind enough to come over to help get it into our house. We think it really jazzes up our dining room!

The people lived in a cute older neighborhood of houses built around 1940. On the way back we stopped at an open house just because we were totally nosy and wondering how much houses in that area were going for. So, it was a 2-story colonial, pretty small though, with 3 bedrooms, and a detached garage that had been made into a pool room that smelled totally like cats. There was no yard to speak of in the back, just some terraces and a patio. It was really nice inside, having been totally renovated. It was going for the bargain price of . . . $949,000. LOL! Guess they haven't heard in Bethesda that the real estate market has tanked.