A family’s memories are often made around the dining room table, so dining rooms become places of personal history. When we create dining room decor that reflects the history of our country or continent, we further set the stage for honoring a sense of connection to our past. We are reminded of our heritage and traditions. This imbues the dining atmosphere with a sense of honor and duty to preserving things of value.
Such an atmosphere may help instill good table manners in children, and an awareness of their place in a family legacy. They may also develop an appreciation for a bygone era and knowledge about the history of their people. In this way, formal meals become a time machine and educational tool.
For authentic antiques, one must consult an appraiser who can verify the authenticity of the item. However, a person on a budget can create the look of an antique with a few handy trick using stain and crackle varnish, and various other artificial aging techniques.
Antiques are often discovered as discarded items, or at thrift stores and garage sales, so keep your eyes open. You can even find antiques in your family’s attic or basement, requiring restoration, but potentially fabulous show pieces.
Antique dining room decor can be fun to create, as the process will take you on a treasure hunt, and cause you to read about the history of decor. Enjoy your journey through time, and enchant your friends with the old world charm of entertaining dinner parties in a room that rediscovers the art of fine dining and classical elegance.
You’ll feel like a Raja in this meditation chair. This one also provides the perfect place to practice the art of baby massage, on or between your outstretched legs. Several other uses for this comfortable extended throne come to mind, but you’ll have to use your own imagination. If you have a baby, you must have figured it out at some point (wink).
Responsible use of forest products and finishes for woods is advocated by “Harmony In Design” . Towards this goal, they have created an entirely new line of meditation products made out of Mango wood and other sustainable resources. After 20 years the mango tree stops bearing fruit, and can then be harvested for timber. Since mango trees can be plantation grown, they prevent the clear cut practice that is damaging rain forests. Multiple uses of the Mango tree, make it a win win crop, providing the delicious and nutritious mango fruit that so many enjoy.
Look at the beautiful rose carved into the wood. The Raja boasts elegant craftsmanship from every angle, and yet has a tastefully rustic quality that makes it easy to incorporate into your room decor.
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With wonderful wood furniture, you’ll need a wood preserver by Howard. The Naturals collection provides everything you’ll need to keep your wood furniture looking its best for generations to come. The wood preserver shown here will bring out the luster in your favorite decor elements. The best part? The Naturals line is completely non toxic!
When you follow the Naturals Wood Cleaner and Polish with the Naturals’ Wood Preserver, your furniture will be be gorgeous and protected from the ravages of time and wear. The wood preserver combines vegetable derived ingredients, Brazilian carnuba wax and beeswax with essential oils. This product will enhance the beauty of all types of unfinished and finished woods.
This is great for wood doorways, window frames, paneling, cupboards, and any other wooden house hold items, as well as wood furniture.
While other people are spraying or rubbing carcinogenic chemicals on the indoor surfaces of their homes, and exposing them selves and their loved ones to dangerous emissions, you’ll be showing them a better way. With Howard Naturals line of products, you’ll breathe safely, and the only fragrance will be the lovely scent of essential oils. What better way to freshen your house for spring cleaning? Practical, safe, and pleasantly uplifting, this line is just what you need. The icing on the cake? It’s very competitively priced. There is just no excuse for exposing your family to toxins when the eco-friendly alternative is so affordable.
Packaged in 12 fl oz, these products were made in the USA.
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This beautiful seat will make you want to meditate more often. You’ll want to sit cross-legged for longer when you are this comfortable with soft cushioning under you and at your back for support. But you don’t have to meditate to appreciate the beauty and comfort of this loveseat. Purely from a design and decor perspective, this is a gorgeous piece of furniture with flowing harmonious lines , and no sharp corners to bang your shins on. A toddler crashing into this love seat would not be hurt either.The Chi will flow smoothly around and over the EcoPod, for better Feng Shui.
The materials comprising the Harmony In Design meditation furniture are fast growing seagrass and banana leaf weaves. Both sea grass and banana leaf are highly abundant and sustainable materials grown in the region where they are locally manufactured. To seal the pieces HID uses only clear water-based finishes. This adherence to ethics helps to eliminate harmful toxins polluting the environment and prevents your home from being filled with carcinogenic emissions. Finally HID cushions are stuffed with soft silky kapok from the flowering of the Kapok tree and 100 % cotton covers.
Don’t you agree that using these materials is better for the health of both the planet and the individual?
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Your child will love this safari table and four matching animal chairs. High quality Russian Birch wood painted with friendly looking African animals of the savanna (zebra, elephant, lion & giraffe) are so cute and inviting, your child will want to eat, drink, create artwork, practice writing, and assemble puzzles here for years. This set of table and chairs creates a fun decor theme for turning your child’s room into an imaginary land of adventure. The variety of chairs creates a love of our earth’s diversity of species. Since the four chairs are different yet harmoniously combined in a set, your child learns that differences should be celebrated, and that different types of animals are needed to make up an eco system, just as different types of people are needed to make up a team, or a society.
The set’s dimensions are:
Table: 29 in. L x 19 in. W x 17 in. H
Chairs: Approx. 20 in. H
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Anka by Svan® is a convertible wooden high chair for babies from 6 months and up. The convenience of an easily stored tray allows you to chose whether to have your baby join the family at the table, or dine individually with out a table, using the tray. As your baby grows, the Anka Chair adjusts to accommodate her. The seat depth, tray and footrest provide ergonomic support for your baby as she grows well into toddlerhood. This convenient design has many of the features of the Svan High Chair, but without the high-end price. The Anka Chair offers easy maintenance and storage. The plastic tray cover is dishwasher safe. The cushion is machine washable. The chair can be easily cleaned with a damp cloth. You can store the tray on the back of the chair and fold the legs for convenient storage.
The Anka Chair is made from sustainable wood, is stable and long lasting. All wood finishes are lead-free and that the plastic tray cover is phthalate and bisphenol-A free. The foam padding in the seat cushion is PBDE-free and washable. The 3-point safety harness has been ASTM and JPMA safety certified. Safe for your both your baby and the environment, Anka is the perfect high chair.
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Here is a lovely and complete dinette set of simple elegance and durable and very strong construction. The lightweight lines offer a lightness to the overall look that allows the home’s other features to stand out. The gorgeous wood finishing of the top and of the seats themselves provide a natural look which is always somewhat appealing in dinettes and offer extremely easy cleaning and maintaining. The durable iron base of both chairs and table make for an incredibly sturdy set, destined for a long and enduring future.
The set comes quickly in packaging and is easily assembled, offering a nearly immediately-available and comfortable-looking setting especially effective on wood floors. The “Dirty Oak” finish, so called owing to the coloration of the lacquer, is finely grained like all Oak wood and is perhaps the most durable material imaginable for an item in this price range. Gorgeous, light and airy, this beautiful dinette set makes a splendid eating and entertaining area, casual yet still pretty.
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Subdued elegance is the term that comes to mind when looking at this particular piece of furniture.
Produced by Pasons, this is a high quality dining chair, with all the comfort one needs for sitting by the table. The microfiber cover is both functional and extremely pleasant to the touch. The colors are neutral and easy to fit in with any color scheme. They are there, elegant and peaceful, grateful to form a beautiful quiet background to your colorful focal points in the room.
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