Wanted: proper dining area for dinner parties

Oil painting of a dinner party in a wealthy, upper class home from the early 1900's.
Jules Alexandre Grun, The Dinner Party. 1880’s. Oil on canvas

It’s been seven months since we’ve moved back and we are still house-hunting. By now, we’ve probably toured over thirty houses, a third of them decrepit tear-downs, a third outrageously overpriced flips, and a third that were in decent or even great shape, but location-wise, not where we wanted to plant our cosmopolitan toes.

Last week however, we found a flip that we actually liked.

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