My French Living Room.......Pictures As Promised

I normally (excluding last yr because of illness) publish an Open House Tour of my French fashion domestic with the halls decked for Christmas. However, I even have had several more recent fans ask why I don't publish many snap shots of my home on Facebook or at the blog. So, as promised, I will make a blog put up providing each room this 12 months.

My style is European Eclectic however is predominately French. I love French Chateau Style and my preferred length is Louis XIV whilst Versailles turned into a hunting inn and usa domestic. My taste appears to run extra toward a gentle but masculine French appearance rather than the fru fru of later French styles. I try to make this a domestic in which a man can enjoy French aptitude with out the feeling of femininity that goes together with maximum French looks.

Our domestic is approximately a hundred and twenty years old and is the early life domestic of a former State Senator. It had emerge as apartments when we bought it and had to be grew to become back into a home. In different phrases.....This French fashion domestic is a hard work of love and an on-going affair. You will see adjustments in even these pictures as we continuously curate the gap.We hope you experience.

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We have 12 foot ceilings in this old house which are fun to paintings with. All fireplaces within the residence are nevertheless there however over time a person drywalled over this one. Because I failed to need the mess of commencing this one up, I observed the mantle in an antique mall and have used it for years. Just currently painted fake tiles and delivered an old surround and steel summer season door.

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I'm not the best photographer and the solar stored coming out and going at the back of clouds so right here is some other with the lighting fixtures on.

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Found a terrific antique lithograph and placed it over the mantle alternatively. It is of the grand canal on the French chateau Chantilly with 18th century humans on foot the grounds and a few naked fellows playing within the water. You can see the chateau in the history and it reads Veue du Grand Canal de Chantilly Prise a sa Source.

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I simply recently discovered the massive Verdure tapestry I have been searching for. It's been tough to discover a big vertical one. Also picked up the French trumeau replicate at auction. The vintage oil portray of an colonnade and citadel on the threshold of a lake that turned into initially over the mantle is now above the door.

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I also changed this table around a bit via adding an antique urn full of fossils and some exceptional candle holders.Unlike maximum decorators, I have no trouble with silk flower arrangements as long as they appearance reasonable. When making my arrangements I continually search for excellent plants that definitely exist, and simplest in hues that are theirs through nature. No blue magnolias please! Silk arrangements took a success whilst humans started out making bouquets out of strange colored, unlifelike flowers that made the entire appearance seem synthetic. In the UK silk vegetation are coming round again so I wish enough time has long gone via here to erase the memory of all the ones horrible silk flower displays of the 80's and 90's. Of path I select actual plants however I want them there all of the time. Who can have enough money that? If you can not, my advice is to invest in some well arranged, best silk bouquets.

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I had been wanting to replace my tea table with something more interesting. I found this capital table in a place most of you would not even go in to. I was actually scared myself. But I came away with a treasure that left me with money in my pockets.....and my life. I thought it would look good in a French style interior.

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We experience our house the most in the evenings when the rooms take on this kind of quite glow. I even have a camelback sofa that has been with me for a long time and I am pretty sentimental approximately. I am searching out a French sofa however it is not a concern yet.

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Another current addition is that this antique French clock with a shepherdess and her goat.

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I adore these clocks and collect as many as I can find and manage to pay for.

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Another passion of mine is needlepoint and petitpoint. The French fauteuil, footstool, pillows.......

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......And photograph of Marie Antoinette's youngsters (which came from an old farmhouse in England) are all needlepoint.

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Also in this nook is a painted French chest and one among a pair of vintage French altar candelabras.

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French demilune table with sphinxes and inlaid brass sunburst is a treasure I found at an outstanding charge. You have in no way visible all people move to buy some thing as quickly as I bought this.

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I adore cane back French furnishings. This chair is blanketed in faux Mongolian lamb fur.......Only for a laugh.

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My style is not French united states however greater Chateau or Maison style. I am most cushty with the appearance of a French united states domestic but now not too rustic.

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Behind the antique French table is a needlepoint protected French fauteuil. I found the huge portrait in the French frame at a run down second hand shop. I love those places!!

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Looking out into the front hall at a great little painted piece I got recently. I painted my hall in a faux limestone effect several years ago and have loved it. The pictures are antique lithographs after French painters Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret.

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Adding another update.....I observed a terrific old Chinoiserie papered display for this corner.

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I love the antique engravings of fellows fencing from Angelo 1763 L'Ecole des Armes Fechten Fencing Escrime. Dominico Angelo Malevolti Tremamondo (1716-1802) turned into born in Italy, studied in France, got here to London in 1755 and became instructor in fencing to a number of the English higher magnificence and contributors of the royal own family. Establishing his very own college in 1763, he published his

academic book illustrated with plates depicting diverse positions and moves.

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This photo capabilities an vintage cupboard I sold with my very first paycheck. I was all of 19 and the collecting trojan horse had already bitten. You can also see a latest buy of mine......The accordion.

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I found this accordion in the basement of an old antique mall in Georgetown, KY. It was in the 50% off corner. It was filthy and after a good cleaning has become display worthy. It is made by Augusto Torio and Sons, NY. Torio came to America from Italy and became one of the first accordion manufacturers in New York City.

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I also acquire vintage navy hats, and so on. I determined those lately and the trunk they came in. The feathered hat sits on top of an old wig makers mildew.

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Behind this table is a French curio packed with my collections of Limoge bins, antique compacts, various miniatures, and my favorites, the petit point purses. I love the French stimulated ones with Watteau fashion pix of fanatics in pastoral settings.

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The handbags are so stunning, want you could see them in individual. They are every approximately five X 6 inches and so delicate, a few with beads, and tricky clasps.