For Sale! One Table & Chairs Set

That's right, we're selling this little old table and chairs set.

I came into joint ownership of this dining set with my roommate Whitney when we moved into St. James Court Historic Apartments in the summer of 2008.  It had belonged to the previous tenants (perhaps the tenants before them as well), and they didn't want to move it or didn't have room for it in their new place.  They sold it to us, along with a monstrous dresser, which now resides in my bedroom.

This little set went with me and Super Then-Fiance to New Berlin, where we lived for a year at Pinewood Creek Apartments.  Now it resides in our basement in our house in West Allis.

Our basement is something we haven't quite known what to do with for a while.  Initially it seemed like a cool game room and man cave area, but the added expense of having full-blown cable (and now DirectTV) down there put a damper on that.  Plus, it's just dark and basement-y.

Our basement is actually quite dry - we live in a well-drained area and have a working sump pump that does its job.  Of course, it's still a basement.  There are some issues with lighting that we need to deal with.  We started our basement rehab project by getting some more attractive sconce fixtures to replace the Nautical-Chic outdoor fixtures that had somehow become the lighting solution down there.  The looked like this:

Augusta Wall Mount Outdoor Brass Downlight from Home Depot, $39.97!

It felt like some sort of weird sailing museum down there with the combination of those lamps (6 of them), the blonde faux wood paneling on the walls, and the metal support pillar (necessary to hold up our house) in the middle of the room. Gorgeous.

We ended up replacing those lights with something sleeker.  We hoped to have a cool bar area down there someday, so we wanted to reflect that vibe.  This is what we chose, and installed ourselves:

Portfolio Black Pocket Wall Sconce, $19.98 at Lowe's

That made a huge improvement in the room.  Someday maybe we'll do something about the paneling (even if that just means painting it).  This winter will give us some nice cozy time to work on clearing things out to have a garage sale in the spring, and to maybe bring some different furniture pieces into the room.   This room has lots of awesome, swanky bar/game room/man cave potential still!  Just one thing at a time, starting with making some space.

So for now, if you need a table and chairs, hit me up!  We can work out some sort of deal.