My French/English Old World Sitting Room
As promised, with this post I have shown several rooms from my home. We have both been overwhelmed at the response and number of visits. Nearly 4,000 of you have been kind enough to come each time a room is added to the tour. Thank you for visiting!!!!!
Our sitting/own family room is the final on the excursion. No pics allowed of Tim's two room man cave up stairs. I find it irresistible but am no longer successful at speaking him into it. For this room we desired an Old World French/English experience.......Quite however leaning closer to the masculine. When Zach comes to visit I am a bit outnumbered. Actually it is my taste too. As I have said before, I like Versailles higher while it changed into a looking lodge and now not so fru fru.
Anyway right here it is, desire you experience. Again I apologize for my photography and lighting fixtures issues. You can get to all the different rooms thru links at the bottom of this post if you want to go to them.
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This room that we use as a family area was originally the dining room of this old house. Since it is towards the back of the house, where there is more privacy, we use it as a sitting room and I moved the dining room to the front, across the hall from the living room. The wall color is a muddy aqua and is actually truer here, but without the flash the picture is too dark....so the walls look a bit greener in most of the pictures.
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A bit brighter! The room is ideal for a chunk of TV, studying, or whilst Zach is right here it gets become a game room. We are massive boardgamers. Not the vintage Sorry or Monopoly games, however the more recent Euro board video games that have adventures and mysteries that can take 3 to 4 hours to clear up.
The left aspect of the room is quite tons ruled by means of the vintage very wellWelsh cupboard and the tapestry (which for a few purpose appears brown in this photograph but is genuinely inexperienced). The o.K.Washstand is a own family piece that I recognise has been painted and stripped specific instances throughout my lifetime. Painting fixtures is truly now not a new fashion. Next to it's far an old demi john in it is authentic wooden crate.
The Welsh cupboard sits on a base with a carved scalloped apron and cabriole legs. I love the Medieval feel of the cupboard with it's Gothic doorways and remarkable carving on the pinnacle. See how inexperienced the tapestry is......That is what it certainly looks as if.
My Staffordshire collection. I just started collecting this summer and am falling in love with those top notch portions of English pottery. Will quickly be publishing a weblog publish about them and their records. But right here is a piece of info. While the guys tended to the higher end pottery and porcelain, unskilled women and youngsters painted the Staffordshire collectible figurines. That is why they've that naive folk art charm to them.
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Looking from the sitting room into the returned corridor.
You can see this on the cupboard above and I wish you may see in man or woman. I love particular and interesting matters and this is a big souvenir book from Fountinbleu circa 1900. It is sage green with gilt lettering that clearly would not show up nicely. I also have the smaller pink one you see from Malmasion, and one in my office from Versailles and the Trianons.
It is 12 X 9 and has some lovely drawings of the indoors and exterior. There are twenty-5 in all on difficult postcard like stock. Very specific and all written in French.
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The beautiful candelabras with rose marble and onyx bases came to me from a chum in France.
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This tapestry is all in needlepoint with the figures being accomplished in petite factor. For a few cause their colorful costumes in muted pinks, blues, and yellows don't come via. I took the pictures in every light and on every mode I may want to but nevertheless no luck.
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I love oil paintings of landscapes, mainly ones involving castles. Also, the antique needlepoint tapestry over the mantle features a fortress and got here from an estate auction. You'll see close-u.S.Later so you can see the colours higher. This is the simplest room that did not have a hearth and yet is the coolest room within the house so I bought the faux one with area heater to heat things up a piece.
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Just brought this antique French needlepoint throne chair.
Works flawlessly with the needlepoint tapestry over the mantle.
Some of the castle paintings.
My favourite is the one at night.
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I determined a fixed of these vintage damask protected French chairs and planned to apply them in right here. It's a chunk too crowded with two so the alternative sits in my bedroom. There is a rest room through that door however is long and narrow and hard to image.
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This became an vintage wardrobe I observed this summer season on Craigslist. It became two times as deep and had mirrors in the the front. I wished a bookcase (really need two more) so I had this cut in , shelves made from the excess, and we established the glass. I am very thrilled with the result.
This big hand embroidered piece on top of the bookcase is one in all my favourite treasures. I acquire antique heraldry and handmade textiles and became overjoyed once I determined this at an auction.
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You can see the stitches higher on this image.
The bookcase is for storing my vintage books. My different studying books are in drawers everywhere in the house, it is why a want another case for them. I even have collected books for years but not until this year have I commenced targeting French books.
I had to percentage those and the 3 at the left underneath that I observed at a Goodwill for $25.00......All from the 1800's and all in French. Needless to say I was thrilled!
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I additionally wanted you to look this little crimson French prayer ebook with brass edging and plate with monogram.
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This is an vintage table I painted 3 years ago.
Next to it's miles an vintage leather folding screen with oil paintings of plants, swags, and architectural elements that I observed at an estate auction.
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You can see the portray higher on this photograph. The vintage crimson painted chest turned into a backyard sale find.
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Close up of the French clock. It is pastoral in design with a younger female gathering wheat. Also the small photo beside it is needlepoint.
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Well, I bet you have to have some thing modern-day.......But if I need to, it has to sit down in the front of an old French tapestry. All the BIG amusement is upstairs in the Man Cave. Don't get me wrong, I like tech gadgets too and at the same time as I revel in having Alexa playing tune in every room.......I simply don't need to have a look at her. I preserve all devices well hidden.
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A couple of views looking into the eating room
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There are incredible photos on the bit of wall as you cross into the back corridor. So sorry for the bad lighting fixtures, I needed to have it.
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I love this vintage oil portray of a boy and his mom. The damage to his face is infrequently sizeable whilst there's no flash.
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Also this old etching of a Renaissance interior is so lovable and specified.
And of path it would not be my residence with out a tom cat...... Or four. When these two show up within the evening the tapestry pillow gets moved and they want their blanket. They both came to us as kittens....Chanel (at the proper) first after which Buddy confirmed up a week later. We believe they're brother and sister. They adore every different.
To visit the Living Room click on here
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To visit the Dining Room click on right here
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To visit the Front Hall click on here
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To visit the Kitchen click on here
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To go to the Master Bedroom and my Office click right here
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