Dianne, men must like leather. My husband is in charge of redecorating our den. He has chosen a chocolate brown leather sofa.

I think the den will be finihsed in late February. I can't wait to see what he's picked out. This is his baby, and I love not having to do it.

I have a little red in every room of the house and my kitchen is painted red. My lr is painted a soft gold, but I just ordered a dark red leather sectional for it. It should be delivered this week! Red coordinates with many colors and I consider it almost a neutral.

Daisygirl

I was afraid we'd end up with Early American Trash! He did show me while walking through the furniture store, the coffee table he almost picked out. It was so ugly and gaudy and all I could think was how it would have immediately been sent back. What was he thinking?

In Ohio, we had a den that was called The Male Bonding Room. Native American spears, civil war things, even a Bullie, which is a dried bull testicle. The walls were textured with straw and then had a glaze over it. Really pretty and very masculine. That was the room the men watched sports, smoked and passed gas.

We're in the thinking process of re-doing a home office for my husband. Probably a lot of leather, etc. Typical male stuff.

He has an antique Lionel train stored in a trunk now and we were thinking of using it. I have a lot of railroad antiques that people gave me when I did a couple of musicals about railroad towns.

We don't really want the train and antiques in easy reach of the grandkids and we're thinking of putting it on a track around the ceiling and rigging the train to run on it.

Dan's all for it, but I don't want it to just go in a cirlce around the room so we're figuring that out. Still in the planning stages.

Is that a crazy idea? Anyone have input?

smile

[ January 15, 2006, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: smilinize ]

No, it's not crazy. I've seen it done in restaurants. I think it would be fascinating.

Nancy and I ate in a restaurant in Virginia that had one going around the room. I thought it was great! One of my ex-bosses has one that runs throughout his entire house. It is fab...I would do it in a heartbeat!

JJ

There's one in a Restaurant in Arkansas too. I liked it. I have a train that goes by my door a dozen times a day...Thats enough for me. In the living room smile? or a spare room?
chick

Say whatever works Smile, its your guys home and your castle so go for it....

The room is an extra bedroom that we are turning into my husband's office. He will have a lot of computer stuff and I guess the train if we can get someone to do the work.

I dated a guy who was a member of a toy train club. He took me to a place where the club had a lot of trains set up. It was incredibly realistic though in miniature. He would have killed for Dan's train. I think there is a similar group here in town and we might go there to get some ideas.

I wanted it to circle around the room and maybe the chandelier somehow. But we'll have to figure that out. If we can get it to happen, it would be so cute. I think just around the room would be boring.

Thanks for the encouragement. As I said, we're still in the thinking stage.

smile

Dianne, I'm still laughing about your male bonding room and your explanation of what the men did in there. What a hoot!

Smile, my daughter and I were in Wegman's yesterday, www.wegmans.com. It's an unbelievable food store that opened a few months ago in our area. They have a train running around the top of the store. It's amazing. The kids love it. It's quite an attraction.