Jumat, 02 November 2018

My French/English Former Basis Fashion Sitting Room


As promised, amongst this post service I conduct maintain shown several rooms from my home. We conduct maintain both been overwhelmed at the reply too issue of visits. Nearly 4,000 of y'all conduct maintain been form plenty to come upward each fourth dimension a room is added to the tour.  Thank y'all for visiting!!!!!

Our sitting/family room is the concluding on the tour. No pictures allowed of Tim's 2 room homo cave upward stairs. I dear it but am non successful at talking him into it. For this room nosotros wanted an Old World French/English feel.......pretty but leaning towards the masculine. When Zach comes to see I am a chip outnumbered. Actually it's my gustation too. As I conduct maintain said before, I similar Versailles amend when it was a hunting lodge too non thence fru fru.

Anyway hither it is, hope y'all enjoy. Again I apologize for my photography too lighting problems. You tin toilet learn to all the other rooms through links at the bottom of this post service if y'all want to see them.



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This room that nosotros run equally a household unit of measurement expanse was originally the dining room of this onetime house. Since it is towards the dorsum of the house, where in that location is to a greater extent than privacy, nosotros run it equally a sitting room too I moved the dining room to the front, across the hall from the living room. The wall color is a muddied aqua too is truly truer here, but without the flash the moving ikon is likewise dark....so the walls hold off a chip greener inwards most of the pictures.

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A chip brighter! The room is perfect for a chip of TV, reading, or when Zach is hither it gets turned into a game room. We are large boardgamers. Not the onetime Sorry or Monopoly games, but the newer Euro board games that conduct maintain adventures too mysteries that tin toilet accept 3 to 4 hours to solve.

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The left side of the room is pretty much dominated past times the antique oak Welsh closet too the tapestry (which for roughly argue looks chocolate-brown inwards this moving ikon but is truly green). The oak washstand is a household unit of measurement slice that I know has been painted too stripped 2 unlike times during my lifetime. Painting slice of furniture is sure non a novel trend. Next to it is an onetime demi john inwards it's master copy wooden crate.


The Welsh closet sits on a base of operations amongst a carved scalloped apron too cabriole legs. I dear the Medieval experience of the closet amongst it's Gothic doors too corking carving at the top. See how light-green the tapestry is......that is what it truly looks like.


My Staffordshire collection. I simply started collecting this summertime too am falling inwards dear amongst these wonderful pieces of English linguistic communication pottery. Will shortly last publishing a weblog post service close them too their history. But hither is a chip of info. While the men tended to the higher terminate pottery too porcelain, unskilled women too children painted the Staffordshire figurines. That is why they conduct maintain that naive folk fine art charm to them.





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Looking from the sitting room into the dorsum hall.


You tin toilet run into this on the closet higher upward too I want y'all could run into inwards person. I dear unique too interesting things too this is a large souvenir mass from Fountinbleu circa 1900. It is sage light-green amongst gilded lettering that truly doesn't exhibit upward well. I also conduct maintain the smaller ruby-red 1 y'all run into from Malmasion, too 1 inwards my component subdivision from Versailles too the Trianons.


It is 12 X ix too has roughly beautiful drawings of the interior too exterior. There are twenty-five inwards all on difficult postcard similar stock. Very detailed too all written inwards French.

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The beautiful candelabras amongst rose marble too onyx bases came to me from a friend inwards France.

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This tapestry is all inwards needlepoint amongst the figures existence done inwards petite point. For roughly argue their colorful costumes inwards muted pinks, blues, too yellows don't come upward through. I took the pictures inwards every lite too on every agency I could but yet no luck.

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I dear petroleum paintings of landscapes, particularly ones involving castles. Also, the antique needlepoint tapestry over the curtain contains a castle too came from an estate auction. You'll run into close-ups subsequently thence y'all tin toilet run into the colors better. This is the alone room that didn't conduct maintain a fireplace too yet is the coolest room inwards the work solid thence I bought the imitation 1 amongst infinite heater to warm things upward a bit.


Some of the castle paintings.


My favorite is the 1 at night.

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I constitute a gear upward of these antique damask covered French chairs too planned to run them inwards here. It's a chip likewise crowded amongst 2 thence the other sits inwards my bedroom. There is a bath through that door but is long too narrow too difficult to photograph.

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This was an antique wardrobe I constitute this summertime on Craigslist. It was twice equally deep too had mirrors inwards the front. I needed a bookcase (actually demand 2 more) thence I had this cutting inwards two, shelves made from the excess, too nosotros installed the glass. I am really pleased amongst the result.

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This large mitt embroidered slice on overstep of the bookcase is 1 of my favorite treasures. I collect antique heraldry too handmade textiles too was delighted when I constitute this at an auction.

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You tin toilet run into the stitches amend inwards this image.

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The bookcase is for storing my antique books. My other reading books are inwards drawers all over the house, that's why a demand roughly other illustration for them. I conduct maintain collected books for years but non until this twelvemonth conduct maintain I started concentrating on French books. 

I had to portion these too the 3 on the left below that I constitute at a Goodwill for $25.00......all from the 1800's too all inwards French. Needless to say I was thrilled!

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I also wanted y'all to run into this picayune imperial French prayer mass amongst brass edging too plate amongst monogram.

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This is an onetime desk I painted 3 years ago.

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Next to it is an antique leather folding enshroud amongst petroleum paintings of flowers, swags, too architectural elements that I constitute at an estate auction.

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You tin toilet run into the ikon amend inwards this image. The onetime ruby-red painted breast was a yard sale find.

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Close upward of the French clock. It is pastoral inwards pattern amongst a miss gathering wheat. Also the small-scale moving ikon beside it is needlepoint.

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Well, I approximate y'all conduct maintain to conduct maintain something modern.......but if I must, it has to sit down inwards front end of an onetime French tapestry. All the BIG amusement is upstairs inwards the Man Cave. Don't learn me wrong, I similar tech gadgets likewise too piece I relish having Alexa playing music inwards every room.......I simply don't desire to hold off at her. I locomote on all gadgets good hidden.

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A twain of views looking into the dining room

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There are 2 wonderful pictures on the chip of wall equally y'all learn into the dorsum hall. So hapless for the bad lighting, I had to conduct maintain it.



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I dear this antique petroleum ikon of a man child too his mother. The harm to his confront is hardly noticeable when in that location is no flash.


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Also this onetime etching of a Renaissance interior is thence lovely too detailed.


And of course of teaching it wouldn't last my work solid without a feline...... or four. When these 2 exhibit upward inwards the level the tapestry pillow gets moved too they desire their blanket. They both came to us equally kittens....Chanel (on the right) showtime too and thence Buddy showed upward a calendar week later. We believe they are blood brother too sister. They adore each other.





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