Love the views - both @abasket and @rockymtnhigh2 !!
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That is so lovely, is this your main home or cottage?
Interesting to hear about tubs. We took out our fancy tub in the primary and put in a nice big shower, but felt like if we sell our house they would want the other bathroom to have a tub for kids.
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Main home. No cottage anymore therefore “staycation” home. 
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I love this room, especially the gorgeous and colorful rug. 
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That cabinet! I’d love to have that for my bar area
I may, “borrow,” your hastened table idea! Really smart for adding either additional seating or serving space!
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Congratulations! Year round beautiful view!
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All my 3 kids use an antique lawyer’s bookcase for their bar - it’s a great reuse of that item!
(because YES, we had 3 lawyer’s bookcases in our home/attic among the “too much furniture” we collected over the years to refinish!)
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Then the kids can always say they were called to the bar…
My favorite piece of bar furniture is our drinks cabinet. It’s made from a wooden rowing shell I rowed in at college, which was crashed and damaged beyond repair a few years later. I was fortunately able to salvage a 6 foot section that my grandfather made into a cabinet.
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That is SOOO cool - and what a great story!
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That is the BEST use of a shell I’ve ever seen, and a great story to go with it.
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It wasn’t an original idea, there’s lots of similar memorabilia floating around (hah!) in the U.K. There was a very old drinks cabinet that the college boat club captain got to keep in their room for the year they were captain, which was reputedly made from one of the college’s winning Henley eights in the late 19th century. However there was usually a shortage of old boats because the winning college (“Head of the River”) in the bumps burned a boat to celebrate after the end of term dinner. I also have a painted wooden oar (actually won rowing in this boat). But nowadays most shells are plastic so making a drinks cabinet is a lot less practical.
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We don’t have a tub in our primary either. Our only one is in a secondary bath. One per house is probably sufficient.
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My wife cannot survive without a tub!
We have some great tub memories with our kids. When they were still young enough to bathe together, we played a game where I had a water pistol and I gave them math questions (simple addition, subtraction and multiplication), whoever got the answer first, I would squirt the other kid, wrong answer also a squirt. It was fun math and got them to exercise mental calculations, which I find in short supply these days.
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We also don’t have a tub in our primary. H wanted a huge walk in shower with multiple heads/jets. There is an extra deep soaker in the hall bath.
I regret not pushing harder as I really wanted a nice free standing tub/wet room concept. H felt like we would have had to sacrifice too much closet space but in retrospect, we could have moved the closet to the other side of the bedroom and stolen space from an adjacent bedroom. Maybe some day!
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I love the look of the free standing tubs! If we build again, I’ll put one in the primary just for the aesthetic 
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Not the best picture, but I wanted to play. Yes, the walls are eggplant as purple is my favorite color. It’s just this one room. As I said previously, this used to be a reading room, and the overstuffed couch in there had bits of purple. I once heard a Realtor say that there are colors to dwell and colors to sell. For now, we are dwelling, and I love my purple walls.
This pic doesn’t really show it, but we back to greenbelt, which is so quiet and calming. The bench under the window, built by may dad about 70 years ago, was in my grandpa’s house. When I took it, I had no idea my dad had built it, but finding that out made it even more special. I like the doodads I have sitting on it, including the mid-century modern glass grapes I just got from my late mom’s house.
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