This is minute inward a serial of posts that furnish a pocket-size tour of my domicile in addition to concentrates on our French manner dining room. Many of y'all have got asked for a tour in addition to nosotros have got made some changes lately since both of us have got retired in addition to have got to a greater extent than fourth dimension to treasure hunt in addition to curate our home. I promised I would have got pictures in addition to postal service them this twelvemonth in addition to so I hope y'all enjoy.
I honey all styles of French decor from rustic farmhouses to contemporary Paris apartments. However, equally I have got said before, my ain favorite manner is French Chateau. The chateau was designed to furnish a someone reason residence for the household unit of measurement away from Paris but was formal plenty to have visiting luminaries. The traditional styles were softened, making the lines less stiff in addition to the overall experience of the domicile to a greater extent than rustic. The overall resultant was a reason solid that was relaxed in addition to inviting piece retaining many of the fragile features of the French influence. This sometime solid is for certain non a chateau but it does have got alot of graphic symbol in addition to tall 12 human foot ceilings which give it a grand feel.
I savor the warmth in addition to beauty of living alongside antiques in addition to I sweat to brand the interior infinite a identify where everyone, I hope, feels rattling much at home.
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For some argue yellowish rooms are difficult to photograph in addition to larn a truthful color. My dining room never shows upwardly equally warm in addition to lovely equally it truly is because the butter yellowish walls never are truly captured inward a picture. You tin can await at this icon exhibit in addition to encounter 3 unlike yellows. This room e'er looks smaller inward pictures than it truly is because it's difficult alongside my photographic tv camera to larn the width in addition to the summit of the 12 human foot ceilings at the same time.
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The tabular array is oval alongside a matlasse encompass in addition to pocket-size scrunched department of yellowish in addition to cream buffalo plaid that sometimes is besides used equally a floor overlay. I similar banquette seating in addition to so I'm using a French cane settee in addition to rush seated French provincial chairs. My mom did the needlepoint pillows when I was a lilliputian girl. The edge is truly textile in addition to has a French Gothic look, the pattern a flake difficult to distinguish inward these photos. The tapestry is French. The hide has a textile bottom in addition to chicken wire top in addition to is used to maintain marauding felines out of the dining room when it is beingness used to entertain. There is a door that tin can move closed in addition to ane opening leading into the hall that has no door, hence the demand for the screen.
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I lately picked upwardly a duad of beautiful carved woods architectural fragments depicting diverse fruits in addition to foliage, such equally pomegranates (symbol of life, union in addition to rebirth). Decided to purpose them on my hide to spruce it upwardly a bit.
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A close-up of the finished product.
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UPDATE
We lately added this antique French sideboard in addition to moved the other slice into the living room.
This French slice features wonderful ormolu, marquetry and a greenish marble top.
Also added the French Louis XIV sunburst mirror.
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I had been looking for an antique sunburst mirror to layer over the mirror to a higher identify the dining room mantle.
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An sometime poplar closet is at ane time displaying the antique dinnerware I have got started collecting. When I changed the dining room my sometime Limoges sadly didn't run anymore.
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I have got started collecting some unlike antique mainland People's Republic of China patterns for purpose inward the dining room. I don't assist for matching sets in addition to would rather opt for a cohesive mis-matched look. These are discontinued of class in addition to difficult to observe in addition to so patience is required. This is Copeland Spode, Raeburn pattern...........
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and this is Royal Cauldon, Jessamine. The soup bowls are Spode Vienna Bird pattern. If whatever of y'all dealers in addition to booth owners have got whatever delight permit me know!!!!
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This is Chanel, striking a pose equally usual. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cracking sometime fossil oil icon of a castle ruin is to a higher identify the window. An sometime poplar closet in addition to antique blood-red painted tabular array fill upwardly up this corner.
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My favorite French manner is the reason chateau await when the domicile was a identify to escape to from the metropolis for remainder in addition to relaxation, picnicking, hunting, in addition to frolicking close out of the stuffy costumes associated alongside courtroom or Parisian dress. I honey this sometime icon exhibit of French nobles doing simply that.
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This is looking inward through the household unit of measurement room door in addition to is likely my favorite thought of the dining room. I honey a French hunting club await (even though I would never kill an animal) in addition to the hunt tapestry, trophy mounts, in addition to hunt inspired carved wall decor give the effect. All the mounts have got been institute inward antique stores hither inward the U.S. of America in addition to some from Europe. I experience similar displaying them honors the creature to a greater extent than than letting them waste materials away inward some shop. The entrance of the solid is besides inward French hunting club manner in addition to leads into the dining room.
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I am searching for a French bombe breast to become hither nether the tapestry in addition to foolishly permit a painted ane skid through my fingers lately for which I boot myself regularly. There volition move some other though....just waiting for an auction or Craigslist find.
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Playing roughly alongside a vignette inward the dining room. French girandoles characteristic in addition to sometime shepherd in addition to his son, besides old framed hunt tapestry.
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The thought looking from the dining room out into the French hall which I painted inward a imitation limestone technique.
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Trying to have got pictures from all angles in addition to so y'all tin can have got a panoramic thought in addition to non claiming to move a skillful photographer. I was going to have got some professional person pictures taken for my website but at ane time that I'm retired it simply doesn't seem that important.
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This door has e'er perplexed me because it never truly seemed to belong inward this room. I lately bought a cracking sometime hide at auction in addition to the identify I wanted to purpose it would exclusively accommodate 3 of the 4 panels. We decided to hang a panel on the sometime door in addition to it plant for us.
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The hide is gilt burnished leather alongside fossil oil icon of swags, bouquets, in addition to architectural elements. Hard to encounter inward the icon exhibit but lovely inward the correct light.
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UPDATE
I lately made an update alongside this antique French piece. I moved the other into my office. Also institute this candelabra in addition to paid $40.00 for it in addition to it's twin which is inward my sleeping accommodation now. They were inward pieces but all pieces were at that spot alongside exception of ane prism. I gauge people idea it was ruined. Glad they did!!!
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The French trumeau mirror was an unbelievably cracking find.
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This sometime etching of Louis XIV on horseback during the Carousel of 1662 is interesting. The Carousel was an trial celebrating the nativity of the Dauphin in addition to 25-year sometime Louis XIV wanted to brand the most of it. It was held on June 5, six in addition to 7, non at Versailles but betwixt the Louvre in addition to the courtyard of the Tuileries, at ane time called the Place de Carousel. Close to 15,000 people gathered to picket the grand spectacle.
The subject for this trial was a tribute to the 5 most exotic countries at the fourth dimension in addition to each was represented yesteryear a quadrille. In plough each quadrille was headed yesteryear a fellow member of the courtroom in addition to each quadrille had its' ain color scheme, theme, etc. associated alongside that country. The 5 quadrilles would perform mock charges at each other where they fired small, scented balls inward brilliant colors to amuse to spectators. Not exclusively the courtiers were clad inward lavish costumes. Their followers wore helmets shaped equally dragons, fish in addition to parrots in addition to fifty-fifty the King's Equus caballus was dressed to impress.
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My favorite fourth dimension inward the dining room is inward the eve when the walls have got on a wonderful novel color in addition to the lite from the chandelier in addition to girandoles larn inward form of magical.
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If y'all would similar to encounter to a greater extent than y'all tin can catch the living room yesteryear clicking on the next link:
Click this ane to encounter the entrance hallway
Click hither to encounter the kitchen
https://maquiavelos.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-old-world-style-kitchen.html
Click hither to encounter the original sleeping accommodation suite in addition to my office
https://maquiavelos.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-old-world-master-bedroom-suite.html
Click hither to encounter the previous post
http://eyefordesignlfd.blogspot.com/2017/09/decorating-with-multiple-layered-mirrors.html
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