My French Dining Room

This is second in a sequence of posts that provide a small tour of my home and concentrates on our French fashion dining room. Many of you have requested for a tour and we've got made some changes these days on account that both folks have retired and have more time to treasure hunt and curate our domestic. I promised I would take pics and publish them this 12 months so I hope you experience.

I love all forms of French decor from rustic farmhouses to contemporary Paris flats. However, as I even have stated before, my own favorite fashion is French Chateau. The chateau become designed to offer a personal united states of america residence for the family away from Paris but changed into formal sufficient to acquire traveling luminaries. The traditional patterns had been softened, making the lines less rigid and the general feel of the house extra rustic. The general result changed into a country residence that turned into relaxed and alluring at the same time as preserving among the delicate functions of the French affect. This antique house is absolutely now not a chateau however it does have alot of individual and tall 12 foot ceilings which give it a grand sense.

I revel in the warmth and beauty of living with antiques and I try to make the indoors area a place wherein every person, I wish, feels very a lot at domestic.

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For some cause yellow rooms are hard to image and get a real shade. My eating room never shows up as warm and lovely as it actually is because the butter yellow partitions in no way are definitely captured in a photo. You can look at this photograph and notice three different yellows. This room continually seems smaller in photos than it certainly is because it's hard with my digicam to get the width and the height of the 12 foot ceilings on the identical time.

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The desk is oval with a matlasse cowl and small scrunched segment of yellow and cream buffalo plaid that once in a while is likewise used as a flat overlay. I like banquette seating so I'm the use of a French cane sofa and rush seated French provincial chairs. My mom did the needlepoint pillows after I became a little woman. The border is surely material and has a French Gothic look, the pattern a chunk hard to distinguish in these pix. The tapestry is French. The screen has a fabric backside and hen wire pinnacle and is used to keep marauding felines out of the eating room when it's far getting used to entertain. There is a door that can be close and one starting main into the corridor that has no door, as a consequence the need for the screen.

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I lately picked up a couple of beautiful carved wood architectural fragments depicting various end result and foliage, such as pomegranates (image of lifestyles, marriage and rebirth). Decided to use them on my display screen to spruce it up a piece.

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A near-up of the completed product.

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UPDATE

We recently brought this vintage French sideboard and moved the alternative piece into the dwelling room.

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This French piece features wonderful ormolu, marquetry and a green marble top.

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Also added the French Louis XIV sunburst mirror.

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I were looking for an antique sunburst reflect to layer over the replicate above the eating room mantle.

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An antique poplar cupboard is now showing the vintage dinnerware I have started collecting. When I changed the dining room my old Limoges unluckily failed to work anymore.

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I even have commenced gathering some exclusive vintage China styles for use inside the eating room. I do not care for matching units and could alternatively opt for a cohesive mis-matched appearance. These are discontinued of direction and tough to find so endurance is required. This is Copeland Spode, Raeburn sample...........

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and that is Royal Cauldon, Jessamine. The soup bowls are Spode Vienna Bird sample. If any of you dealers and booth proprietors have any please permit me know!!!!

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This is Chanel, placing a pose as traditional. A amazing old oil portray of a fortress wreck is above the window. An vintage poplar cupboard and vintage purple painted desk refill this nook.

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My favorite French fashion is the us of a chateau look when the home turned into a place to break out to from the town for relaxation and rest, picnicking, hunting, and frolicking approximately out of the stuffy costumes associated with court docket or Parisian get dressed. I love this old image of French nobles doing simply that.

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This is looking in thru the circle of relatives room door and is probably my favored view of the dining room. I love a French hunting resort look (despite the fact that I might by no means kill an animal) and the search tapestry, trophy mounts, and hunt stimulated carved wall decor supply the impact. All the mounts were discovered in antique shops right here within the US and some from Europe. I sense like displaying them honors the animal greater than allowing them to waste away in a few shop. The entrance of the house is likewise in French searching motel fashion and leads into the dining room.

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I am attempting to find a French bombe chest to go right here beneath the tapestry and foolishly let a painted one slip thru my arms recently for which I kick myself frequently. There might be another even though....Simply anticipating an auction or Craigslist locate.

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Playing around with a vignette in the dining room. French girandoles feature and old shepherd and his son, also old framed hunt tapestry.

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The view searching from the eating room out into the French corridor which I painted in a faux limestone approach.

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Trying to take pics from all angles so that you will have a wide ranging view and no longer claiming to be an amazing photographer. I was going to have a few professional pics taken for my internet site but now that I'm retired it just would not seem that critical.

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This door has always perplexed me because it never really seemed to belong in this room. I recently bought a great old screen at auction and the place I wanted to use it would only accommodate three of the four panels. We decided to hang a panel on the old door and it works for us.

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The screen is gold burnished leather-based with oil portray of swags, bouquets, and architectural elements. Hard to look within the photograph but adorable inside the proper mild.

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UPDATE

I currently made an replace with this antique French piece. I moved the alternative into my office. Also observed this candelabra and paid $forty.00 for it and it's twin that's in my bedroom now. They have been in pieces but all portions have been there with exception of 1 prism. I wager humans thought it turned into ruined. Glad they did!!!

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The French trumeau reflect become an unbelievably outstanding find.

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This vintage etching of Louis XIV on horseback for the duration of the Carousel of 1662 is interesting. The Carousel changed into an event celebrating the birth of the Dauphin and 25-12 months antique Louis XIV desired to make the maximum of it. It changed into hung on June 5, 6 and 7, now not at Versailles however between the Louvre and the courtyard of the Tuileries, now referred to as the Place de Carousel. Close to fifteen,000 human beings accumulated to look at the grand spectacle.

The subject for this event was a tribute to the five most special international locations at the time and every was represented through a quadrille. In flip each quadrille changed into headed by a member of the court and each quadrille had its' very own shade scheme, subject, and so on. Associated with that united states. The 5 quadrilles would perform mock fees at every other wherein they fired small, scented balls in vibrant hues to amuse to spectators. Not most effective the courtiers were clad in lavish costumes. Their fans wore helmets fashioned as dragons, fish and parrots or even the King's horse turned into dressed to electrify.

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My favourite time inside the dining room is in the evening when the partitions tackle a first rate new color and the light from the chandelier and girandoles make it sort of magical.