There are certain days in your life that leave identifiable marks on you forever. The inevitable's are your wedding day, the birth of your
children and family vacations. Some leave a mark on you for other reasons... some are physical marks. Today was one of those days for myself, Rhino and the Don. As you know from previous blogs and word of mouth we purchased our house the beginning of January. We brought with us only a few articles of furniture to the new house. Over the last few weeks we have been searching for a Sofa/loveseat combo as well as dining room table. Strangely enough i think we have settled on them both but today was the homecoming for our dining room table and china cabinet. Over the weekend we went to D.T. McCall and found a really nice table that was onsale but we had to buy the china cabinet as well. They would not break up the set. So the weekend consisted of measuring from every angle and it was finally decided that the way our dining room was set up that it just wouldn't look right with the china cabinet in the same room as the table because the cabinet was just way to big. With both in the room there
was essentially no room to get the table centered under the light and still have room to get chairs in on one side of the table. Well this weekend we learned that this particular set was a close out and they only had 9 sets left. It was going in their sale paper which covered about 4 D.T. McCall stores across middle TN. Flash forward to today where I called the Carthage store and they said they only had one left and it was on the showroom floor. So I had to make a split second decision to drive down to Carthage around 230 this afternoon to get our beloved table. Me and the Don saddle up the red mule and head down to Carthage. As it turns out we get to Carthage and my sales rep gave me some false information and turned out they still had some in the warehouse which turned out to be good because they were still boxed up and made it easier for transport. We arrived at the heady ranch around 530pm and then the real fun began. Table, chairs, lower section of china cabinet were a breeze. Unfortunately, the top part of the hutch must be lined with gold or concrete.
To make a long story short the beast weighed about 270lbs. So me, don, and ryan grunt,cry, waddle and finally get this thing in the door with only one minor scratch on the front. As we near the end of set up we discover that we made one fatal flaw in our moving decision. Tucked inside the top part of china cabinet are the glass shelves for the cabinet. With the help of our friendly scale we discovered that each one of these weigh a little over 10lbs. So you do the math 10.5 x 6= ~63 lbs. Needles to say it would have still been a beast but we could have carried it with 65 pounds less weight which would have been nice. So all in all we survived a Don Nose bleed, a dent/scratch on the front and many strained low back muscles. I have attached a few pictures for your viewing pleasures.
As you may notice, we ended up putting the china cabinet in our kitchen in a little knook. It ended up looking pretty good since we couldnt fit all in one room.
children and family vacations. Some leave a mark on you for other reasons... some are physical marks. Today was one of those days for myself, Rhino and the Don. As you know from previous blogs and word of mouth we purchased our house the beginning of January. We brought with us only a few articles of furniture to the new house. Over the last few weeks we have been searching for a Sofa/loveseat combo as well as dining room table. Strangely enough i think we have settled on them both but today was the homecoming for our dining room table and china cabinet. Over the weekend we went to D.T. McCall and found a really nice table that was onsale but we had to buy the china cabinet as well. They would not break up the set. So the weekend consisted of measuring from every angle and it was finally decided that the way our dining room was set up that it just wouldn't look right with the china cabinet in the same room as the table because the cabinet was just way to big. With both in the room there 
was essentially no room to get the table centered under the light and still have room to get chairs in on one side of the table. Well this weekend we learned that this particular set was a close out and they only had 9 sets left. It was going in their sale paper which covered about 4 D.T. McCall stores across middle TN. Flash forward to today where I called the Carthage store and they said they only had one left and it was on the showroom floor. So I had to make a split second decision to drive down to Carthage around 230 this afternoon to get our beloved table. Me and the Don saddle up the red mule and head down to Carthage. As it turns out we get to Carthage and my sales rep gave me some false information and turned out they still had some in the warehouse which turned out to be good because they were still boxed up and made it easier for transport. We arrived at the heady ranch around 530pm and then the real fun began. Table, chairs, lower section of china cabinet were a breeze. Unfortunately, the top part of the hutch must be lined with gold or concrete.
To make a long story short the beast weighed about 270lbs. So me, don, and ryan grunt,cry, waddle and finally get this thing in the door with only one minor scratch on the front. As we near the end of set up we discover that we made one fatal flaw in our moving decision. Tucked inside the top part of china cabinet are the glass shelves for the cabinet. With the help of our friendly scale we discovered that each one of these weigh a little over 10lbs. So you do the math 10.5 x 6= ~63 lbs. Needles to say it would have still been a beast but we could have carried it with 65 pounds less weight which would have been nice. So all in all we survived a Don Nose bleed, a dent/scratch on the front and many strained low back muscles. I have attached a few pictures for your viewing pleasures.
As you may notice, we ended up putting the china cabinet in our kitchen in a little knook. It ended up looking pretty good since we couldnt fit all in one room.
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