Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Jamaican harmony
Bringing the outdoors inside.
Seaside Antiques
Mirror by Currey and Company
German 17th century commode
Chairs in Bergamo cotton
Master Suite. David Hollingsworth bed
Sferra linens
Sofa in Osborn and Little Cotton
Antique French bed
Dining with books.
What a wonderful room this is!
Antique Syrian mother of pearl inlaid table.
Mottahedeh porcelain bowl.
Crystal lamps by Visual comfort.
Antique Swedish Consoles.
Guest Bedroom.
Wouldn't you just love to be a guest here?
Back to back sofas in Schumacher Ikat and armless chairs in Duralee fabric, by Thayer Coggin.
Colefax and Fowler stripe on Louis xvi chairs.
Crystal lamps and throw: Ralph Lauren.
Old Dutch painting.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Emotions through colour.
Most of us are unaware of the effects that the visual world has on our senses and feelings; blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body, it slows the metabolism and produces a calming effect. Red is a very emotionally intense colour, it enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure.
These emotions can be altered significantly depending on saturation, or depth of colour, but the basic principles are worth considering when deciding on your colour scheme.
- Red is associated with energy, power and passion.
- Pink is fun, lively and feminine.
- Orange stimulates creativity, encouragement and is invigorating.
- Yellow is the colour of sunshine and is associated with joy, happiness and intellect.
- Blue represents the sky and water. It is associated with wisdom, confidence and calmness.
- Green suggests nature, harmony, freshness and fertility.
- Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition.
- White means light, purity and cleanliness.
- Black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious colour.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Clean and Pretty
The interiors are so feminine and simple and somehow glamorous; they remind me of what a modern Petit Trianon might look like.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Louis XIV fauteuil
photo: tim street-porter house beautiful
How wonderful is this Louis XIV fauteuil sitting in front of the fabulous charcoal taffeta curtains!! A pretty picture to be sure.
Country House Decor in the City -William Howard Thompson House
With a creative eye and a passion for salvaged antique treasures from Europe, an entrepreneur proves that country style can be right at home in any setting — even an elegant city house.
Anyone still believing that country style must be limited to farmhouses need only behold the home of Annie Brahler for compelling proof to the contrary. Located in Jacksonville, Ill., the stately, six-bedroom house is a landmark of that city's historic district. On the outside, it is pure architectural sophistication; on the inside, it's country through and through.
Beneath a crystal chandelier, a small table off the kitchen provides an intimate dining nook.
Vintage silver gets repurposed as bud vases
Pictured: Eight-year-old daughter Isabel's bedroom has a bedstead that belonged to Princess Lillian of Belgium.
Dividing the living room from the sitting room is an archway rimmed in tooled leather and guarded by carved indian heads
Dressed Up & Dressed Down
Tasseled, buttoned "ball-gown slipcovers" dress up gilded dining chairs. Their opulence is underscored by the bare oak floor, outlined in walnut parquet, which gives the room the youthful look of "wearing an evening gown without shoes," Annie says. The Drexel claw-foot table was dark brown until Annie coated it with Sherwin-Williams "Pulmonaria" semigloss paint, deliberately avoiding a precise match with the slipcovers. "I don't like things to be matchy," she adds.
Annie in the Garden The daughter of Dutch immigrants, Annie lives with her husband, Richard, three children, and three dogs in an imaginative re-creation of the interiors inhabited by her ancestors, with antique "farmhouse castoffs" she unearths at barn sales throughout Europe. These she imports through her business, Euro Trash, a thriving enterprise that employs a carpenter and two seamstresses full-time. Like a tableau by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, these rooms combine opulence with an irresistible lack of pretense: Elaborate crystal chandeliers and chairs covered in simple linen look as lovely together as a 17th-century servant girl with a pearl earring. Here, all members of the Brahler clan make themselves at home as they please: "My kids and dogs are welcome anywhere," Annie says. "This is definitely not a museum!"
Anyone still believing that country style must be limited to farmhouses need only behold the home of Annie Brahler for compelling proof to the contrary. Located in Jacksonville, Ill., the stately, six-bedroom house is a landmark of that city's historic district. On the outside, it is pure architectural sophistication; on the inside, it's country through and through.
Beneath a crystal chandelier, a small table off the kitchen provides an intimate dining nook.
Vintage silver gets repurposed as bud vases
Pictured: Eight-year-old daughter Isabel's bedroom has a bedstead that belonged to Princess Lillian of Belgium.
Dividing the living room from the sitting room is an archway rimmed in tooled leather and guarded by carved indian heads
Dressed Up & Dressed DownTasseled, buttoned "ball-gown slipcovers" dress up gilded dining chairs. Their opulence is underscored by the bare oak floor, outlined in walnut parquet, which gives the room the youthful look of "wearing an evening gown without shoes," Annie says. The Drexel claw-foot table was dark brown until Annie coated it with Sherwin-Williams "Pulmonaria" semigloss paint, deliberately avoiding a precise match with the slipcovers. "I don't like things to be matchy," she adds.
Annie in the Garden The daughter of Dutch immigrants, Annie lives with her husband, Richard, three children, and three dogs in an imaginative re-creation of the interiors inhabited by her ancestors, with antique "farmhouse castoffs" she unearths at barn sales throughout Europe. These she imports through her business, Euro Trash, a thriving enterprise that employs a carpenter and two seamstresses full-time. Like a tableau by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, these rooms combine opulence with an irresistible lack of pretense: Elaborate crystal chandeliers and chairs covered in simple linen look as lovely together as a 17th-century servant girl with a pearl earring. Here, all members of the Brahler clan make themselves at home as they please: "My kids and dogs are welcome anywhere," Annie says. "This is definitely not a museum!" 
Monday, March 29, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Bedroom Design Ideas
Old World Europe.
Cottage Bedroom
To make this cozy cottage bedroom appear bigger than it actually is, a 19th-century French glass is used as a grand headboard. The combination of patterns — toiles, stripes, and florals — works because they are all shades of red, from pink to rose to deep burgundy.
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