Jumat, 22 Desember 2017

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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Minggu, 17 Desember 2017

Decorating Alongside Barley Twist Furniture

And yous idea this weblog postal service was going to survive most furniture. Just kidding! However, at that topographic point is a connecter betwixt these tasty erstwhile fashioned candies together with the beautiful interiors together with furnishings that are spotlighted inwards this postal service on the barley twist pattern element.

Barley-sugar twist candy is an ancient sweetness originally made from hot saccharide syrup together with an extract of barley to color it that was pop from the 1600's. At the cease of the postal service is a recipe for the candy if yous are interested inwards trying some.

This good known pattern characteristic on slice of furniture has been amongst us for many years The shape dates dorsum to 333 AD when Constantine the Great, the start Christian emperor, brought dorsum a couplet of helix shaped columns from Jerusalem to survive used inwards the altar of St. Peter's Basilica inwards Rome. According to tradition, these columns, known equally Solomonic columns, were originally used equally structural pillars for the roof of the Temple of Solomon. In France, the twisted column or torsade was a major chemical part inwards slice of furniture pattern during the reign of King Louis XIII 1610 to 1649. The pattern chemical part came to England amongst Katherine of Braganza inwards 1661 when she married Charles II.

While English linguistic communication collectors together with dealers oftentimes refer to the twisted shape equally barley saccharide twist later the sweetness barley saccharide twist stick candy that resembled the 17th together with early on 18th century leg, the French prefer but torsade or barley twist.

Whether your mode is French or English linguistic communication a slice or 2 of barley twist slice of furniture volition render minute erstwhile footing flavour to your interiors.

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Because of the legs, the tabular array is the slice of slice of furniture that I intend unremarkably comes to hear when barley twist is mentioned.
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18th century French walnut tabular array amongst barley twist legs. Serpentine columns together with barley twist were specially predominant during this time.

During the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14) cabinet makers predominate mode of leg was the pop barley twist turned leg. 

There are fabulous footling tables out at that topographic point amongst barley twist legs. Search for them at auctions, Craigslist, antique malls together with fairs.

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A rare French Antique Louis XIII mode opened upwardly barley twist writing table.The mightiness to carve opened upwardly torsades or spirals such equally the 4 comprising the legs of this tabular array was considered the summit of professional person accomplishment achieved past times alone a few artists.

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This lovely room features a desk amongst barley twist legs.
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An antique French Henri II carved oak barley twist table/ library desk.

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A 19th century French Renaissance barley twist etagere buffet. 
The barley twist pattern has embellished many fine antique cabinets, side tables, together with chests over the centuries.


The barley twist pattern was originally paw made together with paw carved. Here my friend Patrick Damiaens, who is a Master Ornamental Woodcarver from Belgium, plant on a large barley twist.

 English craftsmen shortly learned to create the intricate twist on a lathe. This led to to a greater extent than variations of the barley twist existence made such equally double together with opened upwardly which involved hollowing it out.

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After tables, I intend chairs are commonly associated amongst the barley twist design. I adore antique French needlepoint upholstered chairs, together with if they come upwardly amongst barley twists it's icing on the cake.

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Barley twists became a much desired pattern chemical part equally purpose of the revival of involvement inwards Gothic together with Renaissance style. Here the chair legs are connected past times a barley twist trestle to provide support.

I honey the medieval hold off of Gothic mode dining rooms amongst barley twist legs, etc.


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A swell French carved server amongst stunning thick barley twist posts
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Before long, people were using the barley twist equally an ornamental feature, instead of a structural one. Here is a 19th century oak French Renaissance armoire amongst barley twist 
columns.


This tall together with beautiful antique Welsh dresser, consummate amongst barley twist columns,will brand a disceptation inwards whatsoever room! 

An antique 1880 French hunting mode carved buffet beautifully enhanced by the barley twist pattern element. 

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This beautiful slice reflects the French tradition of massive together with sturdy furniture. Beautiful leafage inwards the shape of leaves, fruit, vines, tree branches or barley twist were oftentimes carved along edges of buffets.

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A Henri II mode buffet amongst exceptional carving together with barley twist.
Hunting mode slice of furniture was produced inwards 19th century during the Industrial Revolution inwards French Republic ameliorate defined equally the Renaissance Revival.Furniture makers specialized inwards detailed carvings of winged griffins, lion’s heads, together with trophies of the hunt, including deer, fish, eels, rabbits, birds, together with dogs. 


The glamorous bed amongst carved barley twist posts add together stunning pattern to whatsoever bedroom.
Here are a few other lovely bedrooms amongst barley twist bedposts.




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What a fabulous bench standing on 4 barley twist legs connected past times a barley twist stretcher.

You don't convey to convey a large presentation of barley twists to give together with erstwhile footing experience to your room. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hint of it hither together with at that topographic point does the trick. 


It's funny how but a sampling of the barley twist pattern chemical part tin can deal to provide minute medieval flair to a room.


Small tables amongst barley twist legs volition move amongst a diverseness of styles if yous similar an eclectic look.

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Here a chip of barley twist on the arms of a lovely footling cane dorsum topographic point gives an English linguistic communication experience to an equestrian mode space. 

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Bring province charm to whatsoever tabletop amongst a collection of Barley Twist Candlesticks.

Barley twist balusters create beautiful staircases amongst a real erstwhile footing flavor.

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Either natural or painted, barley twist embellishment on a kitchen isle is to a greater extent than or less other agency to comprise them into your interior.  


I'm loving this painted barley twist column amongst it's wonderful atomic issue 79 capital.

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Painted slice of furniture pieces featuring barley twists are quite appealing equally well......especially when done inwards shades of ivory.



Recipe equally promised.

 Sugar - 2 1/4 lbs warmed
Barley - nine oz (hulled)
Water - nine pints

 Stir barley together with H2O over gentle oestrus until dissolved. Cook the barley for five hours inwards water.
Strain the H2O together with barley jelly similar liquid together with render it to the pan.  Add saccharide together with create at 300 degrees until difficult cleft stage, existence careful to non sack the sugar.  Pour mixture onto an oiled marble slab. As shortly equally mixture begins to cool, cutting into long strips together with twist them.


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