HGTV comes to Midway Farm

Well, HGTV without the cameras came to Midway Farm in the persona of professional interior designer Jay Stiner. My mother-in-law and Jay took a girls' trip to our area to antique and generally have a good time. Their trip also of course involved visiting Tucker; while Helen had Tucker-time, I got Jay's advice on our house!

Apparently, the night after I gave her the tour, she dreamed about our dining room and awoke as a woman on a mission. It was time, she said, to throw the furniture up in the air and have it magically plop down in new places.

Dragging our gazillion-ton old piano across the room on potholders (don't ask!) didn't feel like magically having it plop down in a new place. In fact, we got half way across the room and three of the four of us had a crisis of confidence. Jay insisted that we had no choice but to soldier on.

Each time we moved one thing, we would step back to see if we liked it, and Jay would insist that we keep moving, that we needed to put everything into place first and then judge its success.

Of course, in the end, Jay was completely right and the new dining room is fabulous. It is much more airy than before, and at the same time, much more inviting to eat in. And it's pretty. REALLY pretty. :)




In the ten minutes before they had to hit the road Jay also re-arranged Tucker's room and re-oriented the bed in the guest bedroom. Fabulous. I thought I had some "before" pictures to post, but alas, it seems I was wrong, so you'll have to imagine the dramatic improvement. THANKS JAY!!!!