Chair of the Day | June 30, 20081 Comment

Chair of the Day: Railroad Bench

Misterarthur and I are hosting a business shindig in a couple of weeks. There’s nothing like the thought of semi-strangers wandering through your house to light a fire under one’s fixer-upper. Which is why I think this will be a garden party. And that got me thinking about our garden – specifically the gravel pit that runs along the side of our house (sorry no pix – too embarrassing).

The pit was supposed to be an elegant alle?© of potted trees. But somehow we took a wrong turn down Lazy Street and it remains a barren pit de grav?©l (French makes it sound a little nicer don’t you think?). Anyway, the invites are out and time’s a wastin’, which is why I’m implementing Operation Garden Storm.

¬†I’ll send Misterarthur down to the Eastern Market for some pots and trees. Easily done. But to give the gravel pit that extra zip that Martha (gag) would approve of, I was thinking of adding some benches. This antique bench probably isn’t meant for the rain and snow of Michigan. But I came across it in my bench shopping journey today and thought I’d feature it anyway. It’s pretty cool – an antique reproduction of an English railroad station bench. I dig it. Do you?

I promise to publish photos once the gravel pit becomes splendiferous. Give me a week.