To Polish or Not to Polish

Day Three:  That is the Question?  Today's topic is about an amazing Hector Aguilar Taxco light fixture in our entry way.  How do I know it is this?  Because I decided to clean the dirty light fixture after passing it day in and out for one year.  I hit me, "I think this might be COPPER!"  So, let's clean...and when I did, I about jumped off the ladder realizing it was a Taxco.

Now, how do I know what I Taxco?  Well, my grandmother left me this gorgeous sterling bracelet marked Taxco, and I've always bee interested in it.  Thank goodness I knew...but now I am afraid that I have ruined it because I've taken some of the patina off of it!  Gah! I've immediately stop cleaning it - just the bottom part of what I am calling the flower.

Should I keep up with the polishing to make it sparkle, or stop and be happy with the vintage flair. What do you think?

Midcentury Modern After 55 years of Love

Day Two:  Well, we found some old photos of our house when it was first built in 1958/59!  Talk about Mid-Century Modern.  It was astonishing to see what it looked like then.  Now, we have peaks and all types of growth!  Amazing what a fifty will do for your house!  I've been working on cutting back the foliage, so the next act will be to make it look like it did back in the 50's!

Update to a Mid-Century Modern Hutch

 Day One:  A Hutch we Recognize but needs some serious Rejigin'! I started looking at our lovely mid-century modern hutch, which was given to us by my hubby's grandmother.  It was full of glassware and other odds and ends from our move.  It wasn't the show piece it truly needed to be. 

 

So, I moved it out of the kitchen, put it on our main wall in the lounge room and started to pull out our lovely white china, stemware and some vintage harlequin yellow pieces.  Then the super piece da resistance....  the Jonathan Adler dog bookends a dear friend gave to me as a gift, that was still in the package!  I might play around with it a tad more, but I really enjoy the simplify of the lines and color against the dark brown wood wall. 

 

What do you think?