My French Agency Living Room.......Pictures Equally Promised

I commonly (with the exception of final yr due to illness) postal service an Open House Tour of my French agency domicile with the halls decked for Christmas. However, I receive got had several newer followers enquire why I don't postal service many pictures of my domicile on Facebook or on the blog. So, every bit promised, I volition brand a spider web log postal service featuring each room this year. 

My agency is European Eclectic but is predominately French. I dearest French Chateau Style in addition to my favorite catamenia is Louis XIV when Versailles was a hunting lodge in addition to reason home. My gustation seems to run to a greater extent than towards a soft yet masculine French expect every bit opposed to the fru fru of afterward French styles. I endeavor to brand this a domicile where a human being tin savour French flair without the feeling of femininity that goes along with most French looks.

Our domicile is roughly 120 years old in addition to is the childhood domicile of a one-time State Senator. It had larn 2 apartments when nosotros bought it in addition to had to hold out turned dorsum into a home. In other words.....this French agency domicile is a task of dearest in addition to an on-going affair. We hope yous enjoy.

We receive got 12 human foot ceilings inwards this old draw of piece of work solid which are fun to move with. All fireplaces inwards the draw of piece of work solid are nevertheless at that spot but over the years someone drywalled over this one. Because I didn't desire the mess of opening this ane up, I flora the drapery inwards an antique mall in addition to receive got used it for years. Just late painted fake tiles in addition to added an old surroundings in addition to metallic summertime door.

I'm non the greatest lensman in addition to the Sun kept coming out in addition to going behind clouds in addition to then hither is some other with the lights on. 

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Found a dandy antique lithograph in addition to position it over the drapery instead. It is of the grand canal at the French chateau Chantilly with 18th century people strolling the grounds in addition to a few naked fellows playing inwards the water. You tin run across the chateau inwards the background in addition to it reads Veue du Grand Canal de Chantilly Prise a sa Source. 

I but late flora the large Verdure tapestry I receive got been searching for. It's been difficult to notice a large vertical one. Also picked upward the French trumeau mirror at auction. The old crude icon of an colonnade in addition to castle on the border of a lake that was originally over the drapery is directly inwards a higher identify the door.

I also changed this tabular array around a combat yesteryear adding an old urn filled with fossils in addition to some unlike candle holders.Unlike most decorators, I receive got no work with silk floral arrangements every bit long every bit they expect lifelike. When making my arrangements I ever expect for character flowers that genuinely exsist, in addition to entirely inwards colors that are theirs yesteryear nature. No bluish magnolias please! Silk arrangements took a striking when people started making bouquets out of weird colored, unlifelike flowers that made the whole expect seem artificial. In the UK silk flowers are making a comeback in addition to then I hope plenty fourth dimension has gone yesteryear hither to erase the retentiveness of all those horrible silk bloom arrangements of the 80's in addition to 90's. Of course of teaching I prefer existent flowers but I desire them at that spot all the time. Who tin afford that? If yous can't, my advice is to invest inwards some good arranged, character silk bouquets.

I had been wanting to supersede my tea tabular array with something to a greater extent than interesting. I flora this upper-case missive of the alphabet tabular array inwards a identify most of yous would non fifty-fifty move yesteryear away inwards to. I was genuinely scared myself. But I came away with a treasure that left me with coin inwards my pockets.....and my life.  I idea it would expect adept inwards a French agency interior.

We savour our draw of piece of work solid the most inwards the evenings when the rooms accept on such a pretty glow. I receive got a camelback sofa that has been with me for a long fourth dimension in addition to I am quite sentimental about. I am looking for a French sofa but it is non a priority yet.

Another recent add-on is this antique French clock with a shepherdess in addition to her sheep. It is directly on the mantle.

I adore needlepoint in addition to petitpoint. The French fauteuil, footstool, pillows.......

......and motion-picture demo of Marie Antoinette's children (which came from an old farmhouse inwards England) are all needlepoint.

French demilune tabular array with sphinxes in addition to inlaid brass sunburst is a treasure I flora at an incredible price. You receive got never seen anyone motion to purchase something every bit chop-chop every bit I bought this.

I adore cane dorsum French furniture. This chair is covered inwards fake Mongolian lamb fur.......just for fun.

My agency is non French reason but to a greater extent than Chateau or Maison style. I am most comfortable with the expect of a French reason domicile but non likewise rustic.

Behind the antique French desk is a needlepoint covered French fauteuil. I flora the large portrait inwards the French frame at a run downwards minute mitt shop. I dearest those places!!

Looking out into the front end hall at a dandy piddling painted slice I got recently. I painted my hall inwards a fake limestone final result several years agone in addition to receive got loved it. The pictures are antique lithographs after French painters Antoine Watteau in addition to  Nicolas Lancret.

Adding some other update.....I flora a wonderful old Chinoiserie papered concealment for this corner.

A cute old painted tabular array with natural poor from age. I dearest mixing farmhouse pieces with adept French antiques.I mean value painted slice of furniture is wonderful in addition to I similar using a few pieces inwards my French agency living room. I would rather identify the painted pieces amongst natural wood.

Behind this desk is a French curio filled with my collections of Limoge boxes, antique compacts, diverse miniatures, in addition to my favorites, the petit indicate purses. I dearest the French inspired ones with Watteau agency images of lovers inwards pastoral settings.

The purses are in addition to then beautiful, want yous could run across them inwards person. They are each roughly v X half dozen inches in addition to and then delicate, some with beads, in addition to intricate clasps.

The castle on the left in addition to the dark ane are favorites......but I dearest them all. I receive got some dandy antique enamel compacts too.

The floral purses are lovely too. I receive got some other display cabinet inwards my role with several more.

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Our French Mode Hall At Christmas

As promised, I take away maintain been sharing pictures of our habitation from fourth dimension to time. Having blogged most the sitting together with dining rooms I idea I would characteristic the French mode foyer together with stairway decorated for Christmas. I did real picayune this yr inward the means of decking the halls......just a flake of greenery, white lights together with ribbon. We take away maintain changed things approximately a flake this yr together with added to a greater extent than French flair to the former footing mode of the delineate of piece of employment solid together with thus a simpler Christmas decor was warranted. I hope you lot relish the tour.

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Many of you lot already know that the foyer was painted inward a simulated limestone technique several years agone every bit a DIY project. I similar the means it lends itself to a French the world chateau look. The incandescent lighting gives everything a warm glow at nighttime which makes the colors non seem every bit pretty when photographed. They are subtle but all the same a flake brighter.

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We honey a French hunting gild expect but practice non hunt. The taxidermy pieces inward this room together with also inward the dining room are all saves from shops hither together with inward Europe. I experience similar it is a shape of animate beingness rescue, taking them from attics together with dusty shops together with giving them a identify of prominence. I constitute these swell antique sconces together with Tim, who loves to calorie-free things, rewired together with got them upward together with running. This French settee industrial plant for directly but I am hoping to recover it inward an former tapestry I take away maintain when I experience the ask for a novel project.....down the route a bit.

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This side of the hall looks into the French mode diningroom.

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Another prototype that shows the left side of the French mode hall together with the Louis XIV console I got this year.

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Above the French console is a hunt tapestry together with lithograph of Versailles when it was a hunting gild nether Louis XIV. As I take away maintain said earlier the French the world chateau expect is my favorite style. Sorry the whole pic didn't show.....my photography skills or should I country lack at that spot of.

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This was truly a  pretty organisation amongst greenery and  pheasant feathers. The cats won't leave of absence them alone. I'm downward to only this 1 together with thus I laissez passer up!

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This side of the hallway looks into the French mode living room.

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Looking dorsum towards the front end door. 

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A French vignette on a painted slice every bit you lot come upward inward the front end door. It is difficult non to include a truthful cat inward the images since they follow me approximately every bit before long every bit I kickoff taking pictures. They are such divas.......especially Sophie.

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The former lithographs are after French painters Watteau together with Lancret. I honey them because the colors are together with thus soft together with muted together with exquisitely detailed. They truly take away maintain to a greater extent than color amongst natural lighting.

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This is every bit you lot larn out along downward the hall. The curio is on former French mode clock illustration that my boy Zach made into a display for some of my antique petit signal purses. Ahead is the bath. The left leads to the main sleeping room together with my office.

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Here are some of my purses together with miniatures. I take away maintain some other curio inward the living room amongst the balance of my collection.

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Above the slice on the correct inward this component subdivision of the hall is a large mitt made petit signal oval of a adult woman that I had framed. I was taught needlepoint together with all embroideries yesteryear my mom. I know the fourth dimension it involves together with thus I appreciate antique textiles similar this 1 together with purchase all I tin ship away afford.

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Just a glance of my French mode bath every bit nosotros plough the corner. I volition accept to a greater extent than pictures inward at that spot when I issue a post most the main suite. All the trimwork together with the staircase inward the hall has been marbleized. You tin ship away run into it approximately the bath door.

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This percentage of the hall faces the household unit of measurement room. I volition also characteristic that room someday soon. To the correct is 1 of the stairs.

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You tin ship away run into to a greater extent than marbling hither on the door frame. The antique lithograph is called La Paix after Gustave Doré.

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This is quaint winding stairway off the French mode hall leads upward to 2 bedrooms that take away maintain larn out a sitting room together with bedroom, directly known every bit the Man Cave, since Zach moved out. Tim loves collecting what he calls "mantiques" for his industrial/world traveler/archaeologist type space. Well that's the best means I tin ship away clit it. It's a truly neat infinite together with he loves it. He has constitute some swell pieces

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Maybe I should take away maintain taken these pictures during the twenty-four hr catamenia together with thus the colors would present upward better. We had only had some folks over together with the Christmas lights were all on. I'm likewise lazy to practice it 1 time again together with thus I hope you lot larn the picture.

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This prototype is looking dorsum into the hall from the household unit of measurement room. That room I volition salvage for a afterward date.



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My One-Time Globe Farmhouse Kitchen

This is the quaternary postal service featuring a tour of our home, this fourth dimension it concentrates on the kitchen. I similar the expect of quondam Earth farmhouse kitchens total of antiques, paintings, in addition to other collectibles that convey inward the warmth in addition to charm. Even though the kitchen has some English, some German, in addition to some Dutch antiques, it is predominately French farmhouse inward style. I took the pictures of the kitchen at Christmas because it's my favorite fourth dimension inward the house. I dearest my kitchen although it is non that large. Most people state it's warm in addition to cozy which makes me happy because I believe that is just what quondam Earth farmhouse kitchens should be. 

Our solid is about 120 years quondam in addition to had been turned into 2 apartments which agency nosotros had to arrive a dwelling solid again. There were no kitchen counters, appliances or anything else inward here. It was basically a vanquish that alone had a hotplate in addition to a booth from a restaurant. It had been inhabited past times academy students for years therefore you lot larn the picture. Like I receive got said inward past times blogs nearly the house, it really has been a long term "labor of love". Hope you lot relish the tour of our quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen.

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This is the hallway in addition to pantry that leads to our quondam Earth style kitchen. I receive got wonderful quondam bead board cupboards that extend all the way downwardly ane side of the hallway. These really give add together to the farmhouse feel.

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Miss Chanel is manifestly leading the tour.

On the correct side are some of the museum reproduction samplers I receive got made over the years. I similar to exercise the authentic counted crosstitch where you lot purpose linen in addition to really receive got to count threads. I receive got therefore enjoyed the harlequin flooring in addition to think it helps develop the quondam Earth note of the kitchen.

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Here is a meliorate moving-picture exhibit of the samplers. Some are on cream linen in addition to others (my favorites) are on darker unbleached linen. These large ones receive got me nearly half dozen months to complete. I receive got to a greater extent than but demand to frame them. Hopefully volition comprehend the whole wall someday. I believe zilch adds warmth to a dwelling solid (in this representative an quondam Earth kitchen) similar handmade textiles.  

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And of course of educational activity Sophie has to exhibit upwards for her moving-picture exhibit too.

On the left side of the hall is the closet expanse in addition to inward this item share I shop my collection of creamware. If you lot desire to add together 2nd quondam Earth farmhouse flair to your kitchen, collect in addition to display some creamware. 

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This in addition to the adjacent few pictures hopefully volition give a panoramic sentiment of the kitchen. It is difficult to receive got pictures because you lot can't larn dorsum far plenty to really larn a proficient shot. Underneath the farmhouse hold upwards tabular array are containers for storing potatoes in addition to onions. I don't enshroud them......not inward an quondam world  farmhouse kitchen.

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Finally constitute some quondam shutters to position on the windows in addition to got them upwards inward fourth dimension for Christmas. The extra woods makes an quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen expect fifty-fifty warmer. 

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My quondam hold upwards table. It has a trestle shelf underneath for storing things. I demand every flake of storage I tin flaming larn because quondam houses commonly are brusk of it. The moving-picture exhibit inward a higher identify the window features a parchment map of French Republic in addition to all the crests of the French provinces. It was a gift from a friend who bought it there. It's really really pretty.

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I constitute the quondam drinking glass in addition to woods panel in addition to stenciled it to expect similar a French bakery window. Pieces similar this volition add together to the farmhouse experience therefore larn treasure hunting in addition to expect for unique items of your own.

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The French breast is an quondam household unit of measurement piece. The large crude icon is of a pastoral French hamlet amongst figures herding animals etc. I dearest using antique artwork inward the kitchen. Remember an quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen should never receive got a minimalist look.

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The circular oak tabular array belonged to Tim's family. Found these smashing cane dorsum French chairs in addition to recovered them inward a linen fabric. Cane article of furniture industrial plant really good inward an quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen whether painted or left natural.

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When collecting creamware for your quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen, retrieve that stacks expect meliorate than merely lining upwards private pieces. It's to a greater extent than authentic looking in addition to that is what you lot are after. 

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This is a large antique needlepoint moving-picture exhibit of a pastoral scene of a woman, her children in addition to a sheep. Like I said I dearest artwork inward a kitchen. For some argue people tend to experience similar kitchens are utilitarian alone therefore that is why at that spot is no warmth inward most kitchens. I similar the European way better......aesthetics ever a must inward an quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen.

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Just position the antique mirror inward the kitchen in addition to everybody really likes it. Display dishes, baskets, interesting wooden boxes in addition to display pieces similar the 5 shelved mini corner closet to the left. These are the accessories that volition brand your quondam Earth farmhouse kitchen experience authentic.

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This is looking dorsum downwardly the kitchen hall that leads to the principal hall.

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A proficient moving-picture exhibit of the bead board closet in addition to pantry unit of measurement in addition to the shelf inward a higher identify it. There are alot of antique bits in addition to pieces stored on overstep that you lot can't come across for the greenery. This was inward the solid when I bought it in addition to really lends to the Earth farmhouse character of the kitchen. Hope you lot enjoyed the tour.

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