tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35375676812519006632024-03-21T16:37:15.064-07:00INTERIOR HOMEFind furniture models and the latest in interior home decoration design your home herenarutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comBlogger1164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-72633534235486615942011-06-30T21:32:00.000-07:002011-07-01T10:13:17.336-07:00Contemplating Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrIoCkYrD-HDlxV0CSpRvvdRfraRXI1-bOY_5Och6GxrqKrQSn7jMerAGUpeiZOOHzzA_AQtCdxzmbuC5npaPO7G8-PUE6hkeBWClti_8BQOrdCAnmtQooX13-Fdjeawb7NvL5kK3Jb8/s1600/frolic-food+%2526+wine+magazine+house+in+russia.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrIoCkYrD-HDlxV0CSpRvvdRfraRXI1-bOY_5Och6GxrqKrQSn7jMerAGUpeiZOOHzzA_AQtCdxzmbuC5npaPO7G8-PUE6hkeBWClti_8BQOrdCAnmtQooX13-Fdjeawb7NvL5kK3Jb8/s640/frolic-food+%2526+wine+magazine+house+in+russia.bmp" width="460" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFu3lAWQlBMWGQWmNV4Ro6uCNIi3d9NMcMN-Bj8QvukppO4Fkr4IO0J1BkCDfc2vaOhim_yuucqvYEL3WSIbXf3AcHax-6XCmg12N1ROdI7zBCkKDX5z0sAE24t-Pv7bxavbSNvJTPPE/s1600/tory+burch+via+peak+of+chic+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFu3lAWQlBMWGQWmNV4Ro6uCNIi3d9NMcMN-Bj8QvukppO4Fkr4IO0J1BkCDfc2vaOhim_yuucqvYEL3WSIbXf3AcHax-6XCmg12N1ROdI7zBCkKDX5z0sAE24t-Pv7bxavbSNvJTPPE/s640/tory+burch+via+peak+of+chic+blog.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAC-5E4yX0fR77M0l9YrNZ3TWcmI5KrMF9JA9xmpIE_MFAHv5F_Amb3eMg7ksPsFGxna2nXJvK-k7-jTXAcwyZ3WsF1Tih7woXM_uvlOOytVNSFkqeVlPzwPQn5b1q2rFJ5g1eD5tWKWc/s1600/WEBSITE+PORTFOLIO+IMAGE+-+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAC-5E4yX0fR77M0l9YrNZ3TWcmI5KrMF9JA9xmpIE_MFAHv5F_Amb3eMg7ksPsFGxna2nXJvK-k7-jTXAcwyZ3WsF1Tih7woXM_uvlOOytVNSFkqeVlPzwPQn5b1q2rFJ5g1eD5tWKWc/s640/WEBSITE+PORTFOLIO+IMAGE+-+1.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>Whilst browsing through the images I have saved on my laptop today I pulled these three out as they caught my eye. I seem to be drawn to green lately. I don't know why as I have always been surrounded by so much blue thanks to my mother. There seems to be something so grounded about green. I mean, I wouldn't ever paint the outside of my house green but I have to say that I love the look of that beautiful old house in the top image with the fresh white trim. I think I could accept green as an accent in my life. </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>Look at <a href="http://www.toryburch.com/">Tory</a> {middle image} sitting there ever-so-stylishly with that beautiful green side table mixed with the blue and white garden stools. My mother is not a fan of green but look at all of that green in her lounge room {last image}...?? What's with that Mum?</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>Mixed with lots of white and blue and pink or blue and red and yellow, I think green could be a great colour to get to know a bit more...</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">image 1 - via frolic, image 2 - via peak of chic, image 3 - anna spiro</span></em></div>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-79781293341234179152011-06-30T06:32:00.010-07:002011-06-30T07:14:55.071-07:00Painted panelling and bookcases<p align="center">Jan and I are very busy to finish some projects before the end of the year, so I do not have that much time to blog! Next year I will share some pictures of all the projects we were working on this year! </p><p align="center">Today I have chosen to post some pictures of painted panelling and bookcases of earlier projects.</p><p align="center">The pictures are all of the portfolio of our company <strong>LEFEVRE INTERIORS</strong>.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnq6Ab5YWI/AAAAAAAAH-o/iHwhxFiZcPo/1_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="489" />Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2" alt="2" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnq8TcEgRI/AAAAAAAAH-s/bu2lT7YKP0Y/2_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="502" />Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4" alt="4" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnq_mDnwTI/AAAAAAAAH-0/8SLMMDT1p90/4_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrEJkieII/AAAAAAAAH-8/tAzTYyaNjmg/11_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrHir_LRI/AAAAAAAAH_E/SJFW1A75FAY/5_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="365" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="12" alt="12" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrK_q0KLI/AAAAAAAAH_M/ow0B7CVZbyE/12_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrN70wWpI/AAAAAAAAH_U/NgStCdrsiis/9_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="763" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrQnK_UEI/AAAAAAAAH_c/pnCpekVo_Cg/8_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="755" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3" alt="3" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrS8XztYI/AAAAAAAAH_g/cGDMi__2lCg/3_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="623" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrVoa_kNI/AAAAAAAAH_o/2pPzTc5K0GY/15_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="825" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="16" alt="16" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrYrU09YI/AAAAAAAAH_w/ZWezeV5wnEg/16_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="367" />Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrbAg574I/AAAAAAAAH_0/3GD4-nNTsJ4/6_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="828" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20" alt="20" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrfVsDEwI/AAAAAAAAH_8/OYu0So6YcxM/20_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="824" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnri7aWCTI/AAAAAAAAIAE/R7_FPENdycU/7_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="554" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17" alt="17" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrmIfnZyI/AAAAAAAAIAM/bh_T-c-D-WM/17_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="412" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18" alt="18" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrpgfj26I/AAAAAAAAIAU/Z-iMcKT9R-A/18_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="394" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="19" alt="19" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnruUIzCYI/AAAAAAAAIAc/gIe3IHytusg/19_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnrxIr3-XI/AAAAAAAAIAk/_854szW1UmI/10_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="763" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="14" alt="14" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnr0KCKesI/AAAAAAAAIAs/A9DwauIiKlg/14_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="828" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="13" alt="13" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnr3_OoQGI/AAAAAAAAIA0/HU5qDNnBC2A/13_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="1020" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQnr7fc_CmI/AAAAAAAAIA8/1DYnGOwl1Qg/21_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="367" /> Lefèvre Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">Talk to you soon!</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-8463990725659646122011-06-30T06:32:00.009-07:002011-06-30T07:13:36.564-07:00Love for Belgian Linen<p> </p><p align="center">Last week I had an appointment with the representative of <strong>LIBECO</strong>, our world-known company for Belgian linen. It was a few months ago since he visited and I really needed some information about new linens, especially about the Libeco Home Collection, table and bed linen.</p><p align="center">I am always surprised about all these beautiful, different textures and range of colors ! I just love the natural touch of our Belgian linen.</p><p align="center">Since Axel Vervoordt introduced us to the linen slipcovers for seats and chairs, a lot of designers started to work with linen. </p><p align="center">In Belgian interiors you will see linen used for draperies and blinds, for seating upholstery, table, bed and bath linen.</p><p align="center">I am not aiming to tell you about the history of linen today, I want you to give some ideas how to use linen in your interior.</p><p align="center">But if you want to know more about the flax’ history you will find a lot to read at the <strong><u>LIBECO</u></strong> website HERE.</p><p align="center">Diane Dorrans Seaks of <strong><u>the Style Saloniste</u></strong> blog wrote a very interesting blogpost about Belgian linen HERE ! It is a most interesting article to read!</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="53" alt="53" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDASd6YxI/AAAAAAAAHng/Y-RFrglVSc8/53_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="263" /> source Libeco website</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="54" alt="54" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDFO2B9hI/AAAAAAAAHno/1qUhuu9zE3k/54_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="311" />source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Click on LIBECO logo to visit the website.</strong></p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Logo" alt="Logo" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDFmAg2LI/AAAAAAAAHns/fuUtWRztB0Y/Logo6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" height="155" /> </p><p align="center">Growing up in the Belgian area, known for the linen industry, will definitely explain my love for linen.</p><p> </p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="27" alt="27" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDJcSBnLI/AAAAAAAAHn0/8YwiG2XvYLs/27_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="833" /></p><p align="center">Our orangery where I used linen for the draperies and the slipcovered seats.</p><p> </p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDLHScjOI/AAAAAAAAHn4/nOJlQLaRqec/5_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="379" /></p><p align="center">Our living room with linen upholstered seats.</p><p> </p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4" alt="4" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDNWjv5MI/AAAAAAAAHn8/I85b0W_IHn0/4_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="837" /> </p><p align="center">I really love the combination of natural materials as here in our library, a combination of an oak woodpaneling and a linen upholstered seat.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p align="center">There is a wide range of colors and textures available in linen fabrics.</p><p align="center">And did you know that from the moment you order a certain number of meters, the LIBECO company will dye the linen in your particular chosen color!!!</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>So, linen can be used for all your window treatment.</strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="32" alt="32" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDPwKo3DI/AAAAAAAAHoE/Q8773RcaY9A/32_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="830" /> source http://www.patrickponseele.be/</p><p align="center">Just love the color of the draperies matching the oak parquetry floor. Beautiful!</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="43" alt="43" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDU5mdBLI/AAAAAAAAHoM/Q7i0A2t3mk8/43_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="846" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="45" alt="45" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDZqyGt5I/AAAAAAAAHoU/aXtIS-SRTww/45_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="669" />source Trouvais blog</p><p align="center">Linen blinds.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="33" alt="33" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDcxC_4dI/AAAAAAAAHoc/mCfoG6jsVps/33_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="908" /> source http://www.patrickponseele.be/</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="41" alt="41" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDiz_rdCI/AAAAAAAAHok/Zhrr9BoGOiE/41_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="833" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Seat and chair upholstery.</strong></p><p align="center"><strong></strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="30" alt="30" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDq0wcc3I/AAAAAAAAHo0/3eq82WnogKs/30_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="768" /> </p><p align="center">Window treatment with linen and velvet chair upholstery and table cloth. A perfect combination at this living room.</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="31" alt="31" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTDx5o35cI/AAAAAAAAHpE/HR9bT9pfKHE/31_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="364" /> source http://www.patrickponseele.be/</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="42" alt="42" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTD39BBJoI/AAAAAAAAHpM/6NAjvDRd0z8/42_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="925" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Table linen.</strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="44" alt="44" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTD-JhCToI/AAAAAAAAHpY/qBG2WwenSUo/44_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="656" />source unknown</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20" alt="20" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTD-3X-qjI/AAAAAAAAHpc/qM90s5NrSl8/20_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="356" /> source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">Here you see a sample card of the Libeco Napoli Vintage linen. Beautiful texture and colors for your table linen.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="38" alt="38" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTECHaJJ5I/AAAAAAAAHpk/T4XIjsZN5aM/38_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="795" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2" alt="2" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEGlN6WXI/AAAAAAAAHps/Cz7ZbQ4NfrU/2_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="600" /> source Garnier</p><p align="center">One of my favorite colors is celadon. Libeco offers a lot of shades of celadon linen. The Garnier’s sofa with a celadon slipcover.</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3" alt="3" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTELiMnMeI/AAAAAAAAHp4/Fw_XDPyUXy4/3_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="752" />source Scapa </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">We all know by now that Axel Vervoordt introduced us to the linen slipcovered seating. Some of the images below show you different styles of seating, all with a linen slipcover.</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTENy-XGmI/AAAAAAAAHp8/QAOxh7TkcEQ/9_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="551" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="13" alt="13" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTERY60OdI/AAAAAAAAHqE/8u7ZydLyGNk/13_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="414" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="29" alt="29" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTETKm9sVI/AAAAAAAAHqI/vHP3ZzpCTNo/29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="378" /> source unknown</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="50" alt="50" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEV3HMTGI/AAAAAAAAHqQ/RIaejjFkWHE/50_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="754" /> source Puylaert Home Basics</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="28" alt="28" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEYbo_81I/AAAAAAAAHqY/V9eKC9eWl3k/28_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="372" /> source At Ease Interiors</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEakTKMXI/AAAAAAAAHqg/G3S2nCZEQcA/6_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="839" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEer0PcTI/AAAAAAAAHqs/H0jAOJYFr3Q/10_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEjeKD_II/AAAAAAAAHq0/PoGBo4GDzYc/7_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="778" /> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEoF9ia3I/AAAAAAAAHq8/kmKJzdkLFFo/8_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="460" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p align="center">Linen slipcovers for chairs.</p><p align="center">I love the mix of these kitchen chairs at the castle of Axel Vervoordt.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEqDWr8NI/AAAAAAAAHrA/pLvQFW0d4vs/11_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="552" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="48" alt="48" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEvVEvmpI/AAAAAAAAHrI/d8iXBQNuXx4/48_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="713" /> Bobby McAlpine</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="24" alt="24" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTEyKruRkI/AAAAAAAAHrQ/w2wFQ_EkRSA/24_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="369" />source Libeco website </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTE0TL_1-I/AAAAAAAAHrY/jK-YQ6DtnJ8/21_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="350" />source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTE5AeizkI/AAAAAAAAHrg/iXvEpz86FQg/1_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="764" /> source unknown</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">Again a sample card of beautiful ‘ready made’ Libeco table linen</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="36" alt="36" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTE84CKPII/AAAAAAAAHro/b0EPtl9JJsw/36_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="798" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="22" alt="22" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTE_C031kI/AAAAAAAAHrw/bzb2yt1bo4k/22_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="528" /> source Libeco website</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="23" alt="23" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFCZhRrdI/AAAAAAAAHr4/MfPGbjpLRKc/23_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="533" />source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="46" alt="46" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFHL6cwnI/AAAAAAAAHsA/XmOy4Gg3wSY/46_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="734" />source unknown</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="37" alt="37" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFKiRlN1I/AAAAAAAAHsI/9xv0ssxyCPw/37_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="789" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="49" alt="49" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFOQWpJlI/AAAAAAAAHsQ/MAbHxf8j2K8/49_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="709" /> source unknown</p><p align="center">A linen skirt for this desk.</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Bedlinen.</strong></p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="19" alt="19" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFQp7bx6I/AAAAAAAAHsY/q419xEci6SE/19_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="538" />source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> <img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18" alt="18" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFSYC7weI/AAAAAAAAHsg/P4aZ43P50_A/18_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="777" />source Libeco website</p><p align="center">This is the sample card of the bedlinen of the picture here above.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="39" alt="39" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFTwhtvGI/AAAAAAAAHso/Dtmjbj5ZLTQ/39_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="397" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFVE5vMzI/AAAAAAAAHsw/FpgycbYBgw8/15_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="251" /> source Libeco website</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="14" alt="14" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFZKSLVSI/AAAAAAAAHs4/DaTk1pA8OXw/14_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="535" border="0" height="697" /> Axel Vervoordt</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Linen wear</strong></p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="16" alt="16" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFbzP2GMI/AAAAAAAAHtA/b4qJ8SNG5JI/16_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="861" /> source Libeco website</p><p align="center">Libeco linen wear sample card.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="40" alt="40" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFfLFr29I/AAAAAAAAHtI/Fnu9BKi87Vw/40_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="797" /> Linen sample card LIBECO</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17" alt="17" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFi8GdHXI/AAAAAAAAHtQ/TalKLcp9wcg/17_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="584" /> source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">And maybe you will find your perfect Christmas present, as this embroidered napkin, browsing through the <strong><u>LIBECO HOME</u></strong> catalogue.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="26" alt="26" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFj8wj9aI/AAAAAAAAHtY/sluBWp3c--U/26_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="200" border="0" height="261" /> source Libeco website</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>To browse through the LIBECO Home Catalogue, click on cover.</strong></p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Catalogue" alt="Catalogue" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPTFlcGytaI/AAAAAAAAHtc/GkekcN-k3Ug/Catalogue1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="576" /> </p><p align="center"><strong>And finally I want to introduce you to a very beautiful blog about linen, ‘</strong><u><strong>LINENS by didriks</strong></u><strong><u>’</u>, where you will find a lot of interesting information about Belgian linen! </strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">I hope you enjoyed my post of today!</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-80548485908112467532011-06-30T06:32:00.008-07:002011-06-30T07:12:44.697-07:00The all-round use of the French Louis chairs<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This week I was browsing through my files, searching for the right dining chair for one of my clients. I always catch myself being attracted by the French Louis XV and Louis XVI chairs and armchairs. It are all-round chairs! You can use them at your dining table or kitchen table or you can mix them together with other seats in your living room. They are wonderful as decorative item in the entry hall or in your bedroom or bathroom… So let’s find out on the basis of some of the images I collected.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am so sorry that of some of the images I really don’t know the source anymore!</p><p align="center"> </p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUoR-X_mTI/AAAAAAAAHbc/DcmOUZz93qU/8_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="668" /> <p align="center">Louis XV armchairs upholstered with Belgian linen. Isn’t that beautiful?</p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUoYDpWJTI/AAAAAAAAHbk/UVRLBIzb2tY/6_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="810" /></p><p align="center">Louis XVI dining chairs covered with Belgian linen.</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUoePhkaaI/AAAAAAAAHbs/O2l4_A6Ok8I/11_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="837" /></p><p align="center">Caned Louis XV chairs at this dining table.</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18 Garnier" alt="18 Garnier" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUoiwI6fuI/AAAAAAAAHb0/6oiqd7CV2uA/18%20Garnier_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="367" /> image source : www.garnier.be</p><p align="center">I do love the diamond patterned fabric for the back of these armchairs. In the 18th century it was a custom to upholster the back of the chair in a diamond patterned fabric (for economic reasons I was told!). </p><p align="center">I often use the <strong>Brunschwig & Fils fabric, “La Seyne Check”</strong>, for the back of a chair. It is available in different colors.</p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="BF1" alt="BF1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUomGOMcKI/AAAAAAAAHb8/Fkzrc-VS_Ik/BF1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="200" border="0" height="150" /></p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="BF3" alt="BF3" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUomnjZwOI/AAAAAAAAHcA/tNslGWLPX3U/BF3_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="200" border="0" height="150" /></p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="BF2" alt="BF2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUonSFH7UI/AAAAAAAAHcE/xs71F7A8X2Y/BF2_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="200" border="0" height="150" /></p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="12 Axel Vervoordt" alt="12 Axel Vervoordt" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUop9wqbxI/AAAAAAAAHcI/SQ-wvePTSGU/12%20Axel%20Vervoordt_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /></p><p>Axel Vervoordt used these ‘caned back-upholstered seat’ Louis XV chairs in his dining room in the castle of ‘s Gravenwezel.</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUovMIueqI/AAAAAAAAHcQ/yrqZtA0FVus/1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="765" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="22 Ralph Lauren" alt="22 Ralph Lauren" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUo1NK32kI/AAAAAAAAHcY/6mH3Zu_hKoM/22%20Ralph%20Lauren_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="475" /> image source : Ralp Lauren Home</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So as you can see, even the well-known designers love to use the French chairs.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ralph Lauren even used them in his new restaurant “Ralph’s in Paris!</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Mariages, weddings photography" alt="Mariages, weddings photography" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUo6hz8cfI/AAAAAAAAHck/PLDtjSRdcHE/32_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /> Ralph’s Paris</p><p align="center">Velvet upholstery!</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="23 Ralph Lauren" alt="23 Ralph Lauren" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUo_mOvO7I/AAAAAAAAHcs/-5ML1tT2oxY/23%20Ralph%20Lauren_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="764" />Ralph’s Paris </p><p align="center">Leather upholstery!</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="25" alt="25" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpDZONW1I/AAAAAAAAHc0/X2iLo-1Rrso/25_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="370" /></p><p align="center">Even mixing different types of Louis chairs is great! Very charming to me!</p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="24" alt="24" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpHq2sMCI/AAAAAAAAHc8/aDGg-C0hOFg/24_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="502" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Are you agree with me that most of the French Louis chairs are very appropriate to use them for you romantic dinner for two?</p><p align="center"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="30 Erika Brunson via 1stdibs" alt="30 Erika Brunson via 1stdibs" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpNv7YHvI/AAAAAAAAHdI/la_Uz55HeUY/30%20Erika%20Brunson%20via%201stdibs_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="896" />Skirted Louis chairs by Erika Brunson.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And now we are going to see how the chairs will match your seating area.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Even your dog will like them!</p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpad5s-6I/AAAAAAAAHdY/esM_EQA5NDQ/7_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="539" /> </p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpej4kmXI/AAAAAAAAHdg/btTFgg05t9E/9_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="494" /> image source : Didier Abbeloos</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpkENyJdI/AAAAAAAAHdo/GrQRAp6mS0w/15_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="754" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I just love the mix of the linen slipcovered seat with the linen upholstered Louis chair here in the living room of our fashion designer Edouard Vermeulen.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Kitchens.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="13" alt="13" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUponlewYI/AAAAAAAAHdw/ICJkXMkA2v0/13_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="367" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In my kitchen I chose for 19th century French Louis XV chairs, upholstered with burlap, around the table and at the corner you can see a new Louis XV armchair of the Belgian company Massant, in a Lelièvre fabric.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Placed at the entry hall, the chairs can be a beautiful decorative item!</p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUptyioGbI/AAAAAAAAHd4/j3k0vGbudus/10_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="736" /> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2" alt="2" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUpzLljrzI/AAAAAAAAHeA/HoTCO0yhRpg/2_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="734" /> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="27 Lars Bolander" alt="27 Lars Bolander" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUp5WFus6I/AAAAAAAAHeI/YiZxpObxx_c/27%20Lars%20Bolander_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="719" /> </p><p align="center">A beautiful Louis XVI armchair at the entry hall of Lars Bolander’s house.</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="31" alt="31" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUp9cd6gjI/AAAAAAAAHeQ/8UYXf0wRw88/31_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="368" /></p><p align="center">My entry hall.</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">A Louis chair even in your bedroom! Why not?</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqCixtQSI/AAAAAAAAHeY/gHsphzPEjLI/21_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="827" /></p><p align="center">Beautiful upholstered armchair in a Braquenie damas “La Dauphin”. Château de Montgeoffroy</p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="14" alt="14" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqGXoPWHI/AAAAAAAAHeg/e5eJxZ5ih2s/14_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="795" /> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="29" alt="29" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqLAr0pEI/AAAAAAAAHeo/dynpcGYxPnU/29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="509" /> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3" alt="3" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqRGNQ3XI/AAAAAAAAHew/TANQ9P7ovdU/3_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="917" /> </p><p align="center">Very romantic in a girl’s room.</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">At your writing desk.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="26" alt="26" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqWB7J0bI/AAAAAAAAHe4/ZRNORq366tU/26_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="726" />image source : Côte de Texas blog</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17 Garnier" alt="17 Garnier" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqcj5d4gI/AAAAAAAAHfA/mHLcEHHHIHU/17%20Garnier_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /></p><p> </p><p align="center">This Louis chair is adapted as a barstool!</p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4" alt="4" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqpCEVzCI/AAAAAAAAHfQ/tV2x9K36lWY/4_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="400" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p align="center">And at least the Louis chair in your bathroom.</p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="28" alt="28" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqtfeWj3I/AAAAAAAAHfY/Qj-YDV9bgE4/28_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqy8cpXBI/AAAAAAAAHfg/Z290-LuEPeA/5_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="823" /></p><p align="center"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So ladies, if maybe you ever discover one or more French Louis chairs at your mother’s or grandmother’s attic, don’t throw them away!!! You know now that there are a lot of places in your home where you can bring them in!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you are interested in beautiful high-quality new-made French chairs, please visit the website of our <u>Belgian company</u> <strong><u>MASSANT</u></strong>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">They make the most wonderful French styled chairs! <strong><u>Click on Massant logo.</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">You will find your nearest dealer. Lars Bolander is one of the dealers for the US.</p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Massant" alt="Massant" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TOUqzbN4mPI/AAAAAAAAHfk/7TG2svpXn1I/Massant%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="431" border="0" height="191" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is also something else that I want to share with you today! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My lovely and good blogfriend <strong>Monika</strong> of the blog <strong><u>Splendid Willow,</u></strong> posted an interview she did with one of my favorite designers </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>LARS BOLANDER .</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Monika is a native of Sweden, living in Seattle as Lars Bolander is Swedish and living in Florida. So you can be sure that those two understand each other very well.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You really have to read it! You will enjoy!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><u>Click on Splendid Willow logo</u></strong> to read the interview.</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-89602282309093938262011-06-30T06:32:00.007-07:002011-06-30T07:09:52.578-07:00Off to Switzerland!<p> </p><br /><p> </p>Because we are working on a project in Switserland, Jan and me need to go to Switzerland for a few days! No, not for pleasure, but for business!!! We have to discuss the project with our clients and Jan has to take all the required measurements.<p style="text-align: justify;">But at the mean time we definitely will enjoy the beautiful Swiss mountains of course!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So we are leaving today, by car and it will take about 8 hours of driving.</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Zwitserland 4" alt="Zwitserland 4" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZB4-u8HkI/AAAAAAAAHRo/5ROC4xLbbNQ/Zwitserland4_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="365" /></p><p align="center">On the road! I don’t think we will have these weather conditions yet at this time…</p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Zwitserland 3" alt="Zwitserland 3" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZB9Foy1YI/AAAAAAAAHRw/hFDT7TTiBaU/Zwitserland3_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="412" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…although I would love to sit here for a couple of hours!… Hmmm,… there will be no time to relax I guess!!</p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Zwitserland 2" alt="Zwitserland 2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZB_z2oWDI/AAAAAAAAHR4/HumI-6og_nQ/Zwitserland2_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Isn’t the St. Bernard dog one of the cutest dogs there are?</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Talking about Switzerland, I really wanted to share with you some beautiful images of mountain houses.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy!</p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 26 (Inspiring Interiors)" alt="Chalet 26 (Inspiring Interiors)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCEcEVr1I/AAAAAAAAHSA/D7G5goI5Bxg/Chalet26InspiringInteriors_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="473" /> </p><p align="center">source Inspiring Interiors blog</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 28 (The essence of the good life)" alt="Chalet 28 (The essence of the good life)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCIe5HSqI/AAAAAAAAHSI/1XfVE3VMDB4/Chalet28Theessenceofthegoodlife_thum.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="780" /></p><p align="center">source The Essence of The Good Life blog</p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 21 (Chaletbaumatti)" alt="Chalet 21 (Chaletbaumatti)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCNVTf1XI/AAAAAAAAHSQ/jNWoRRD7Xqk/Chalet21Chaletbaumatti_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="513" /></p><p align="center">source Chaletbau Matti</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 1 (Todhunter)" alt="Chalet 1 (Todhunter)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCR5DBwrI/AAAAAAAAHSY/AhHJR4c9RMs/Chalet1Todhunter_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="548" /></p><p align="center">source Todhunter</p><p align="center"> </p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 3 (Pauline Joosten.nl)" alt="Chalet 3 (Pauline Joosten.nl)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCWBG8WZI/AAAAAAAAHSk/DyxV-AQiU2Y/Chalet3PaulineJoosten.nl_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="313" border="0" height="481" /> </p><p align="center">source Pauline Joosten</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 15 (Marie-Rève)" alt="Chalet 15 (Marie-Rève)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCZsGzAHI/AAAAAAAAHSs/EhX7RVpzRio/Chalet15MarieRve_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="413" /></p><p align="center">source Marie-Rêve</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 13 (Marie-Rève)" alt="Chalet 13 (Marie-Rève)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCdTKmKeI/AAAAAAAAHS0/8oO3f0lZJXk/Chalet13MarieRve_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="413" /></p><p align="center">source Marie-Rêve</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 19 (Chaletbaumatti)" alt="Chalet 19 (Chaletbaumatti)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCiIcBl2I/AAAAAAAAHS8/UdzJX27QJq8/Chalet19Chaletbaumatti_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="508" /></p><p align="center">source Chaletbau Matti</p><p align="center"> </p><p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chalet 18 (The Essence of a good life blog)" alt="Chalet 18 (The Essence of a good life blog)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TNZCmT9FD5I/AAAAAAAAHTE/P2YqQF0D_GE/Chalet18TheEssenceofagoodlifeblog_th.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="485" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">source The Essence of The Good Life blog</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I wish we could sleep in a hotel room as this charming room!!!</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center">Talk to you soon!</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-6495266905354213682011-06-30T06:32:00.006-07:002011-06-30T07:08:16.620-07:00Autumn colored Flemish interiors<p style="text-align: justify;">At this time of the year I love browsing in magazines or in my files to find the most warmest Autumn colored interiors.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today I sorted out for you some images of Flemish autumn colored interiors ! So if you want to know how we, in the Flemish part of Belgium, love to see our home interior, you certainly will find out more by studying these pictures!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy!</p><p align="center"></p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3 Architect François Van Damme)" alt="3 Architect François Van Damme)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3D2WM4npI/AAAAAAAAHGE/a4A_Yc-9ilg/3%20Architect%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Van%20Damme%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="612" /> <p style="text-align: justify;">Always nice to bring in a touch of red as the fabric of this seat here.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Using slip covers for your seats, you can change the color of the fabric every season!</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3D6bqvR8I/AAAAAAAAHGM/Z-fjclWvPdc/7_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /></p><p align="center">Bringing in wood paneling, you definitely choose for the most warmest interiors.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3D-9W3N4I/AAAAAAAAHGU/u5_hWC9wDmU/6_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EDZLEupI/AAAAAAAAHGc/Oa1sxzubyyY/5_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /></p><p align="center">Subdued colors as these different shades of brown are bringing in the natural colors of autumn.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20" alt="20" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EHO6o8oI/AAAAAAAAHGk/pjt54DI7AeU/20_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="587" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="12" alt="12" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EMDp-uwI/AAAAAAAAHGs/w8D7uHWohh0/12_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="858" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EQBvCT6I/AAAAAAAAHG0/EN-KvGA8-dY/8_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="719" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EUsEBCCI/AAAAAAAAHG8/rFfxfHJZmYk/9_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="715" /></p><p align="center">Try to use a lot of warm colored plaids and cushions.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2 (Unknown)" alt="2 (Unknown)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EYxhk3KI/AAAAAAAAHHE/8gQe6u8GJ4A/2%20%28Unknown%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="776" /></p><p align="center">I have always loved shades of brown and beige for the window treatment.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="24" alt="24" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EiVSYn1I/AAAAAAAAHHU/CJAOTLUFBP4/24_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /></p><p align="center">Try to choose for the right autumn colored table linen.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="25" alt="25" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EmVMD58I/AAAAAAAAHHc/zBXfJmocnnM/25_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="511" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">What do you think of these wood paneled rooms? Aren’t they gorgeous? You almost can feel the warmth of the fire place!</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="16" alt="16" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EqZ1iVoI/AAAAAAAAHHo/KkhPhibwcyI/16_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="19" alt="19" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3Etgmu4GI/AAAAAAAAHHw/KyVWDsAAHMY/19_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="267" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="26" alt="26" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3EwCrHiOI/AAAAAAAAHH4/OyK7jK1s6Ok/26_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="361" /></p><p align="center">A touch of orange always hits the mark in your autumn interior.</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3E5nA4mYI/AAAAAAAAHIM/w0vNmKxgQtE/15_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="657" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17" alt="17" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3E-LwvdcI/AAAAAAAAHIU/_77cuozx57w/17_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="810" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe we should change paintings every season. Notice the beautiful colors of the paintings hanging in this Walda Pairon autumn interior!</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1 (MTC 2010-5)" alt="1 (MTC 2010-5)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FIIppo_I/AAAAAAAAHIk/H6OvscwRR1Q/1%20%28MTC%202010-5%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="810" /></p><p align="center">Oak doors, oak beams, oak flooring!</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4 Arch. Pieter Vandenhout" alt="4 Arch. Pieter Vandenhout" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FMG_w3OI/AAAAAAAAHIs/kfJhrBRFO18/4%20Arch.%20Pieter%20Vandenhout_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="753" /></p><p align="center">Architect Pieter Vandenhout</p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FPhrESoI/AAAAAAAAHI0/gzkR2-JHab4/21_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="826" /></p><p align="center">Lefèvre Interiors </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="14" alt="14" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FT3YWjHI/AAAAAAAAHI8/ZYuFjq3uJp0/14_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="555" /></p><p align="center">Even the choice of the color for your lampshades is important ! Try brown, orange or red! </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="13" alt="13" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FZmXJu3I/AAAAAAAAHJE/M-r2d_qtCag/13_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="787" /></p><p align="center">Dare to paint you walls in red! </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FdRgYe8I/AAAAAAAAHJM/GUrtOLrjJI8/11_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="327" /></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TM3FiT-ksZI/AAAAAAAAHJU/8EYqFl7idXw/10_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="792" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Flamant Home Interiors </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The last image is one of my favorite images!! I so love the combination of wood and linen fabrics, which is often seen in Flemish interiors!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I hope I have given you a wonderful warm feeling by posting these images of Flemish Autumn Interiors?!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Happy Halloween!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">All images without source mentionning : so sorry but I can’t find sources anymore. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if anyone of you knows the source.</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-70450439392335561332011-06-30T06:32:00.005-07:002011-06-30T06:54:14.304-07:00My last blogpost of this year is dedicated to all of you !<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">My dearest readers, followers, blogfriends and blogcolleagues, I would love to thank all of you for this wonderful year, joining me at Belgian Pearls.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">This year I met so many new readers and blogcolleagues, and a lot of you became real friends! It is amazing how many lovely people I learned to know through blogging!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Starting my blog, I never could have imagined that meeting all of you, would have such an impact on my life!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">All those sweet and lovely comments on my posts, all these emails I received from you, were to me a huge support and motivation to go on with my blog!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">‘Belgian Pearls’ wouldn’t be of any meaning without all of you!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I do hope that even in 2011, I will be able to bring you blogposts you will love and enjoy! I promise to do the best I can to not disappoint you!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I also want to make my apologies to all the people amongst you, who have sent me an email on which I have not answered yet! Sometimes I am so busy with my job and my family (I am also a wife and a mum, you know !), that I really don’t find enough time to blog or to answer all my emails!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">We are only a few days away from a new year, and the next two days I will have to prepare everything for New Year’s Eve because we have our family to join us. So there are still a few things to do! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">This post will be the last one of this year.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">To thank you for your support and friendship the past year, I want to treat you with some random chosen eye candy images from my files !</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Thank you so much for being a reader, a follower or a blogfriend!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">You are all so dear to me!</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Enjoy!!</span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNO_kePNI/AAAAAAAAIIk/UWACNaXzDCI/s1600-h/1%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNRG41lxI/AAAAAAAAIIo/yi1WNcgKhcw/1_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="487" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Source : </span><a href="http://www.fourseasons.com/florence/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Four Seasons Hotel Florence</span></a></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNS7UCPMI/AAAAAAAAIIs/xHSsFNwv8Fg/s1600-h/8%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNV38e_SI/AAAAAAAAIIw/D9YPIe0CzH8/8_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="550" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Source : </span><a href="http://www.timclinchphotography.net/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Tim Clinch photography</span></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNfrZLfaI/AAAAAAAAIJE/fuQRVjndipE/s1600-h/6%5B4%5D.jpg"></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNjrrBj_I/AAAAAAAAIJM/gjHGJ9S5okU/s1600-h/3%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3" alt="3" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNliVm5iI/AAAAAAAAIJQ/rehLi58Guzw/3_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="572" /></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Source :</span> <span style="font-size:78%;">Magazine Seasons Januari 2011 Photographer Kat de Baerdemaeker</span> </p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNnfYkaWI/AAAAAAAAIJU/I3_eDZdbV-8/s1600-h/4%5B4%5D.jpg"></a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNq_sufmI/AAAAAAAAIJc/S4hxlZqJnWU/s1600-h/9%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNsymH3XI/AAAAAAAAIJg/pAjxZwsmZNI/9_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="504" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Source : </span><a href="http://www.robertcouturier.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Robert Couturier</span></a></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNuBaFg9I/AAAAAAAAIJk/iD9G3uv3ogM/s1600-h/7%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNwHBiokI/AAAAAAAAIJo/bUViexCR_d8/7_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="558" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Source : </span><a href="http://campagne-decoration.dekio.fr/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Campagne – Décoration</span></a></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRoNwyrTJjI/AAAAAAAAIJs/DofLH1TVwJk/s1600-h/10%5B3%5D.jpg"></a></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>WISH YOU ALL A NEW YEAR FILLED WITH PEACE, PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS !</strong></span> <p></p><blockquote><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">Talk to you in 2011 !!</span></p></blockquote>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-37630858738826990762011-06-30T06:32:00.004-07:002011-06-30T06:52:58.908-07:00Subdued color palette<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas !</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I want to thank everyone who has sent me their warmest Christmas wishes! I wish I could have been able to write every reader or blog colleague to give my personal wishes. But unfortunately, I wouldn’t know where to start! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are only a few days left to a new year! Can you believe this?!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today I love to share with you some images of Belgian interiors with a soft, subdued color palette.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">They all radiate a certain serenity and calmness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy!</p><p> </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhK8fE022I/AAAAAAAAIHQ/lWYfQiAcAlA/8_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="600" border="0" height="377" /><span style="font-size:78%;">source</span></p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18" alt="18" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhLEC_UCoI/AAAAAAAAIHk/PCgqp6w6Uj4/18_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="600" border="0" height="835" /><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20" alt="20" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhLH3BpI3I/AAAAAAAAIHs/CKp8C_7o1qk/20_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="400" /><span style="font-size:78%;"> source</span></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="22" alt="22" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhLKVAW7CI/AAAAAAAAIH0/3CFhuQOxatI/22_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="401" /> <span style="font-size:78%;">source</span></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhLNsr2BuI/AAAAAAAAIH8/E0gICS2-pj8/21_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="400" /><span style="font-size:78%;">source</span></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="19" alt="19" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhLPujAbeI/AAAAAAAAIIE/lyrYaq62zHw/19_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="400" /> <span style="font-size:78%;">source</span></p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRhLS31SZ-I/AAAAAAAAIIM/IWoObNyoQqQ/15_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="356" /><span style="font-size:78%;">source</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;">Wish you all a wonderful last week of the year!</span></p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-74446927069988168842011-06-30T06:32:00.003-07:002011-06-30T06:52:13.078-07:00Meet Fay<p style="text-align: justify;">A few days ago I discovered the new blog <strong>“A MELANGE ET MOI”</strong>, which I really love to visit! Fay, the author is English, but is living in Florence, Italy, for the past two years (she was living in London and Paris before)! She is such a very nice person! And her blogposts are so delightful!</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">So I definitely wanted to introduce you to Fay!</p> <img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040957_jpeg dec17 2010 (2)" alt="P1040957_jpeg dec17 2010 (2)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN09NFovjI/AAAAAAAAIFQ/A06lXc7nGRQ/P1040957_jpeg%20%20dec17%202010%20%282%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="455" /> <p align="center">The lovely Fay in the snow!</p> <p align="center">Fay is living in the historic centre of Florence… and this is the view from her kitchen window…..!</p> <p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="View from Fay's kitchen window (2)" alt="View from Fay's kitchen window (2)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1AddZRAI/AAAAAAAAIFY/fE1UC1ivaa0/View%20from%20Fay%27s%20kitchen%20window%20%282%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="693" /></p> <p align="center"> ...in summer …and …</p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040990_jpeg dec17 2010 (2)" alt="P1040990_jpeg dec17 2010 (2)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1DXy1T7I/AAAAAAAAIFg/v0DlJVt1N_U/P1040990_jpeg%20dec17%202010%20%282%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /> </p> <p align="center">…in winter…!!!</p> <p align="center">Fay enjoys all the good things in life.</p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040934 (2)" alt="P1040934 (2)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1HTpOW5I/AAAAAAAAIFo/XbsjFHT5APE/P1040934%20%282%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="412" /> </p> <p align="center">And she has a lot of passions as…</p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1050187" alt="P1050187" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1LaspOgI/AAAAAAAAIFw/VNhutflPsP8/P1050187_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="838" /></p> <p align="center">… art and history,</p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Firenze june july 2009 334" alt="Firenze june july 2009 334" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1MxPk2VI/AAAAAAAAIF0/vQotUDkZ6nQ/Firenze%20june%20july%202009%20334_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="412" /> </p> <p align="center">architecture,</p> <p align="center">literature, opera,…</p> <p align="center">Fay fully enjoys life and appreciates the little things in life as…</p> <p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1050117 (2)" alt="P1050117 (2)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1RnUnCQI/AAAAAAAAIF8/OQQ496I7RVQ/P1050117%20%282%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /></p> <p align="center"> …baking a Christmas cake…</p> <p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040972_jpeg MACAROONS AGAIN (2)" alt="P1040972_jpeg MACAROONS AGAIN (2)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1WhrH72I/AAAAAAAAIGE/xMoTkkL9-DI/P1040972_jpeg%20%20MACAROONS%20AGAIN%20%282%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="412" /></p> <p align="center"> …and tasting the delicious French macarons…</p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040240 with the pugs in Firenze" alt="P1040240 with the pugs in Firenze" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TRN1bFojfkI/AAAAAAAAIGQ/fcWeagEnvik/P1040240%20with%20the%20pugs%20in%20Firenze_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="822" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">or walking with her dogs in Firenze!</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Writing her blog “ A Melange et Moi “, Fay tries to share with us her passions and daily delights!</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Please , click on logo of the blog and discover the wonderful world of our new blogger colleague Fay!</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-52816768718012899402011-06-30T06:32:00.002-07:002011-06-30T06:50:07.281-07:00The beautiful houses of Anne Decker Architects<p> </p> <p align="center">The company <strong>‘Anne Decker Architects’</strong> , based in Bethesda, MD, is specialized in the design of well crafted homes and additions that enhance their surroundings and sense of place. </p> <p align="center">'”Sensitivity to scale, simplicity of form and attention do detail characterize the quality of our work.”explains Anne Decker on the website. And indeed, I really have to admit that after visiting the Anne Decker Architects’ website and after discovering all these wonderful projects, I only could agree with Anne’s words! </p> <p align="center">You can see and feel that these houses are built or renovated with a lot of craftmanship and with a lot of attention to details!</p> <p align="center">Anne Decker is nationally recognized and many of her projects won an award. A lot of the projects are featured in numerous publications, including Architectural Digest, Period Homes, New Old House, Residential Architect and Custom Home.</p> <p align="center">I was so pleased with the email I received from Anne, a few weeks ago! And I was truly honored to hear that she loves to read my blog and that she loves the work of my company, Lefèvre Interiors.</p> <p align="center"><strong><u>PHOTOGRAPHER CREDIT : </u></strong><strong><u>GORDON BEALL</u></strong><strong><u> (except otherwise specified)</u></strong></p> <p align="center">First I will show you some pictures of a project, of which Anne Decker received a <strong>PALLADIO AWARD in 2009</strong>.</p> <p align="center">This house was featured in the Magazine Period Homes and is also one of my favorites!</p> <p align="center"><strong>The Salamander Farm House. The Plains, Virginia</strong></p> <strong><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="16 (Palladio Award)" alt="16 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY1nA5uvII/AAAAAAAAH5A/tsTihoWNOwQ/16%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="450" /></strong> <p align="center">The Salamander House, a late –1800s Colonial stone home located on a 165-acre horse farm in The Plains, VA, has been expanded and updated.</p> <p align="center">Click on the cover of Period Homes to read the article about this award winning project.</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 399px; height: 428px;" title="Period Homes" alt="Period Homes" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY1po3ZGRI/AAAAAAAAH5E/vT64v5Gz_mU/Period%20Homes%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" border="0" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17 (Palladio Award)" alt="17 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY1tqiyDDI/AAAAAAAAH5M/m8qI0yq85Pg/17%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="564" /> </p> <p align="center">I just love this type of front door.</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18 (Palladio Award)" alt="18 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY12IKlPhI/AAAAAAAAH5U/Z-hjGLuGTe4/18%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="450" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="19 (Palladio Award)" alt="19 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY16cXmrMI/AAAAAAAAH5c/EIj9xlbu_0o/19%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="450" /> </p> <p align="center">This overall view of the rear of the house from the pool reveals the expansiveness of the home. </p> <p align="center">Notice the colonnaded terrace !</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20 (Palladio Award)" alt="20 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY1_lPXZYI/AAAAAAAAH5k/tXbkxw1oLrg/20%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="450" /> </p> <p align="center">The house is based on the five-part Palladian plan with the entry foyer on the second floor leading to the living room. The wings to the north and the south provide private quarters. The north wing houses children’s bedrooms, while the south wing houses the master suite.</p> <p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21 (Palladio Award)" alt="21 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2E8c3fiI/AAAAAAAAH5s/MtME0cFw07M/21%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="399" /></p> <p align="center">Outdoor dining area.</p> <p align="center">And here are some pictures of the interior of the house.</p> <p align="center">I wish my company, Lefèvre Interiors, could have provided all the beautiful paneling in this house! It really is this kind of made to measure paneling our company is recognized for.</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="22 (Palladio Award)" alt="22 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2MZbDTrI/AAAAAAAAH50/Cy7xtR7Meog/22%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="435" border="0" height="434" /> </p> <p align="center">The renovated living room with its paneled walls, a fireplace and molding designed to give the illusion of height.</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="23 (Palladio Award)" alt="23 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2RYZL99I/AAAAAAAAH58/oorWS9ok7gQ/23%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="435" border="0" height="434" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="24 (Palladio Award)" alt="24 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2UgY4FDI/AAAAAAAAH6E/meTBjgdW1rc/24%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="435" border="0" height="434" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="25 (Palladio Award)" alt="25 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2aXFnxxI/AAAAAAAAH6M/lgkltaOEY00/25%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="435" border="0" height="434" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="26 (Palladio Award)" alt="26 (Palladio Award)" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2e-8k2KI/AAAAAAAAH6U/LdxehFIkHWs/26%20%28Palladio%20Award%29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="435" border="0" height="434" /> </p> <p align="center">And here are some random chosen pictures of other beautiful houses and interiors of the Anne Decker Architects website.</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2j-1OVWI/AAAAAAAAH6g/qLPxeJECrwc/5_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="379" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2pMY5ekI/AAAAAAAAH6o/pSuKY8a6bvQ/6_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="563" /> </p> <p align="center">This doorway is of an amazing beauty and is evidence of a huge craftmanship.</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2" alt="2" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2uHEwR_I/AAAAAAAAH6w/BJYflOc06no/2_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="666" /> </p> <p align="center">Attention to detail !</p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2xxKDvjI/AAAAAAAAH64/gSDhzgrHN1Q/9_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="489" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY211WmlWI/AAAAAAAAH7A/0x6YlZMKmmM/10_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="439" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="30" alt="30" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY26kWj8RI/AAAAAAAAH7I/uhVhJGVqwxE/30_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="438" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4" alt="4" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY2993Vc5I/AAAAAAAAH7Q/piyvMylRLzs/4_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="293" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="28" alt="28" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3BtWN7II/AAAAAAAAH7Y/0hwwiO670Lw/28_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" border="0" height="399" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="27" alt="27" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3HD7h9AI/AAAAAAAAH7g/gWBqvWf6o-Q/27_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="451" /> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="32" alt="32" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3MDtExqI/AAAAAAAAH7o/oOLlTYPUJ2c/32_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="349" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3QR6uNyI/AAAAAAAAH7w/4ejAS2ToIeY/1_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" height="428" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="12" alt="12" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3Ukqwd8I/AAAAAAAAH74/QhghVeDdCHs/12_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" height="494" /> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3ZCGRbQI/AAAAAAAAH8A/2AAGyquyS9M/15_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" height="428" /><span style="font-size:78%;"> image credit : unknown</span></p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3fEZyA7I/AAAAAAAAH8I/8La2WYnbS2Y/11_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" height="426" /> </p> <p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3jVC5LdI/AAAAAAAAH8Q/yX848uH0-Ro/7_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="350" border="0" height="500" /> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="29" alt="29" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TQY3oCFW1pI/AAAAAAAAH8Y/byrIbDDk6u0/29_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="378" /></p> <p align="center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong><u>PHOTOGRAPHER CREDIT : ALL PICTURES </u></strong><strong><u>GORDON BEALL PHOTOGRAPHY</u></strong><strong><u> (except otherwise specified)</u></strong></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;"><strong></strong></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;"><strong>To discover more of these gorgeous houses , please visit the ANNE DECKER ARCHITECTS ‘ website.</strong></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Thank you so much Anne for allowing me to use these pictures of your website!</strong></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;"> What do you think about this post of today?</p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;">Do you love the houses of the very talented Anne Decker Architects?</p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;">Is there anyone of you, my readers, who ever built or renovated a house with Anne Decker Architects? </p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="text-align: left;">I really would love to know!</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-58530318151508992912011-06-30T06:32:00.001-07:002011-06-30T06:46:30.680-07:00Fur and hide in mountain houses<p style="text-align: justify;">As Winter made his entry in our country now (since a few days it is snowing and freezing), I am looking forward to this weekend, sitting around the fire place, curled up in the sofa, browsing through some interior magazines ! Cosy, isn’t it?!</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Some winter pictures of our garden I took this morning.</p> <p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20" alt="20" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSLmpc6MI/AAAAAAAAHts/eFgIRJUMkMs/20_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSNk0nOUI/AAAAAAAAHtw/iPmiNL7EGGE/21_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="412" /> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18" alt="18" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSSDX-iGI/AAAAAAAAHt4/bqkoX-6L_bM/18_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="733" /> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Today I want to share with you some inspiring images of moutain houses where fur and hide are used to make the house cosy and warm!</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"> I filed these images without source mentionning. Sorry for that!</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy!!</p> <img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2" alt="2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSVSfgHrI/AAAAAAAAHuA/ablxL-b4h2M/2_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="270" /> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSZOgQQVI/AAAAAAAAHuI/Q46t61nJcns/11_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="285" /></p> <p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="12" alt="12" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSeYjebZI/AAAAAAAAHuQ/Iec66x8agbo/12_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="407" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4" alt="4" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSisk0YJI/AAAAAAAAHuY/bGeRDFZsbBU/4_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="571" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17" alt="17" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSmE-5_fI/AAAAAAAAHug/s92PiLeiyek/17_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="292" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSp9rvlmI/AAAAAAAAHuo/WMmbglzbrbA/10_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="384" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3" alt="3" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSueq0lGI/AAAAAAAAHuw/Ni_aCZAo4eo/3_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="364" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjSykU9QDI/AAAAAAAAHu8/lG13uZs6T1w/5_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="435" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="16" alt="16" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjS2gEmqzI/AAAAAAAAHvE/1dc6hP9Xs5w/16_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="362" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="13" alt="13" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjS4Q-R7zI/AAAAAAAAHvI/XVyljsTOgN4/13_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="362" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjS8WqLPkI/AAAAAAAAHvQ/lKbzW0iolNI/6_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="371" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjTAyjY7AI/AAAAAAAAHvY/hTD3sixmUwc/8_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="368" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="14" alt="14" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjVmgWQ-hI/AAAAAAAAHvg/Rj20BayYT1w/14_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="346" /> </p> <p> <br /><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjVsfPwX2I/AAAAAAAAHvo/-Ln72wSaIj0/15_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="363" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjVxyOCw2I/AAAAAAAAHvw/wDAdULegCc8/7_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="450" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjV0AW958I/AAAAAAAAHv0/YTaFL1rjnZ4/1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="827" /> </p> <p> </p> <p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TPjV5aXkGYI/AAAAAAAAHv8/0I_-p3Nouy8/9_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="459" /> </p> <p></p> <p align="center">Have a wonderful, warm and cosy weekend my friends!!</p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-64875084676261510832011-06-30T06:32:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:32:40.536-07:00Belgian architecture and interior design<h1><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></h1><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size:130%;">I hope everyone has had a wonderful Holiday time! Now we are in a new year and I am looking forward to this blogging year, to all the gorgeous posts of all the beautiful blogs and to all the comments of you, my readers.</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:130%;">I do hope to surprise you with posts you really love and if someone of you has any suggestions about a subject you want to know more of, please don’t hesitate to tell me!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">To start this new blog year, I am posting today about Belgian houses. For those who are new to my blog, I want to introduce you to the Belgian architecture and interior design.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size:130%;">I don’t say that I will give you here in this only post all the characteristics of Belgian architecture, but I do hope to give you the most popular ones.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="28" alt="28" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG7c6lNvdI/AAAAAAAAIKU/upOdtC3sksQ/28_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="294" /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">In Belgian architecture a lot of wood, mostly oak, is used, as you can see here at this English styled manor house.</span></p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="32" alt="32" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG7ffTQlVI/AAAAAAAAIKc/toqrkCGEmSY/32_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="495" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">A subdued color palette for the interior.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="31" alt="31" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG7hxJocQI/AAAAAAAAIKk/zsfDk0yGoVk/31_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="327" /> </p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="29" alt="29" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG7mrVitUI/AAAAAAAAIKs/Ul0sv-tzWVE/29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="490" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">A French styled villa.</span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1" alt="1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG7uCgVj7I/AAAAAAAAIK8/4tKzb2tani8/1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">A Flemish farm house.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">A combination of a tiled and a thatched roof is very much seen on Belgian farm houses.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="34" alt="34" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG7y3IgHdI/AAAAAAAAILE/svwCNql8h1M/34_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="316" /></p><p align="center"> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5" alt="5" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG73v9T6GI/AAAAAAAAILM/cSNyJm39hvY/5_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Oak windows in combination with steel windows is not only seen on farm houses but on a lot of Belgian houses in general.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4" alt="4" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8AdSMClI/AAAAAAAAILc/8ACH_YPE7Nc/4_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3" alt="3" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8HW96QZI/AAAAAAAAILk/9a37qiBnyQY/3_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6" alt="6" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8KQ4837I/AAAAAAAAILs/fmEYTdoQDS0/6_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Another characteristic of Belgian farm houses is the combination of a natural brick façcade with a limed façade. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Isn’t that charming?</span></p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="8" alt="8" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8PnmLi9I/AAAAAAAAIL0/lDfN7B9YN_I/8_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /></p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="7" alt="7" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8SlMlFsI/AAAAAAAAIMA/Vkxj9c_MFWc/7_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Oak cabinetry and Belgian bluestone floor, sink and counters are often used in the kitchen.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="10" alt="10" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8Xl-uUMI/AAAAAAAAIMI/ljRN5awqIWs/10_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">Painted façades.</span></p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="9" alt="9" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8bCPrzHI/AAAAAAAAIMQ/vx9_W3QV2Oo/9_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="11" alt="11" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8e17VHNI/AAAAAAAAIMY/q2ZtqbByNW4/11_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">One of the rooms painted in a dark color is often noticed.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="12" alt="12" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8jbVmPwI/AAAAAAAAIMg/5A4j3SUI7AA/12_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="550" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">Zelliges wall tiles, bluestone counters and oak cabinetry in the kitchen.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="13" alt="13" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8oE72zhI/AAAAAAAAIMo/QUmdylHfXzc/13_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="317" /> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">Home extensions or outbuildings are very popular in Belgium.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="33" alt="33" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8w8h_1FI/AAAAAAAAIMw/C3_E_i1ycbc/33_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="315" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">An orangery as a home extension.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="35" alt="35" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG80sCO2KI/AAAAAAAAIM4/mg5HoJOnqn0/35_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="314" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">An outbuilding.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="17" alt="17" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG833kn8aI/AAAAAAAAINA/iNtZlC2NyjQ/17_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="315" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">Most of the interiors aren’t overdone. No clutter but still comfortable.</span></p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="14" alt="14" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG88Ln_cJI/AAAAAAAAINI/CJfPScG5ods/14_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="319" /> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20" alt="20" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG8_k56YsI/AAAAAAAAINQ/lA1pNm8dgnY/20_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="320" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">Again the combination of Belgian bluestone and oak.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="15" alt="15" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9DXaA79I/AAAAAAAAINY/IG_amIn6gXw/15_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="317" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"> Belgians enjoy having a beautiful garden.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="18" alt="18" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9Gm3RfUI/AAAAAAAAINg/hTjW6n2qXQE/18_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="317" /></span> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="16" alt="16" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9KHvlYVI/AAAAAAAAINo/-FMPDFZ4-os/16_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="320" /> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="19" alt="19" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9L-AgLsI/AAAAAAAAINw/eOTceBnW2Pw/19_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="312" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Wood paneling is very classic and giving a room coziness and warmth, the use of it will not disappear I guess (and I hope!!).</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="21" alt="21" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9Px1sv0I/AAAAAAAAIN4/W0F6UrApX5Y/21_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="362" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Next to farm houses and French and English styled manors, you will also discover these classic styled houses.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="25" alt="25" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9URK42wI/AAAAAAAAIOA/NUU0hFH1tFQ/25_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">A more sophisticated living room.</span></p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="23" alt="23" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9XgkL_oI/AAAAAAAAIOI/oArrSSCDS44/23_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="369" /> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="26" alt="26" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9bjVnexI/AAAAAAAAIOQ/6LRo0XrcM0s/26_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="416" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">As you have noticed, the kitchen is a very important room for the Belgians. They gather with family and friends and enjoy a good meal together.</span></p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="22" alt="22" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9f6xKDBI/AAAAAAAAIOY/OZaePC6xAh8/22_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="364" /> </p><p> </p><p><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="24" alt="24" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9jqrvG1I/AAAAAAAAIOg/Pmpxtmxfym0/24_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="366" /> </p><p> </p><p align="center"><img style="border: 0px none; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="27" alt="27" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jhuilJdiDy8/TSG9nB6A-sI/AAAAAAAAIOo/C6lkyxzJnRI/27_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" border="0" height="367" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">This picture has a lot of the Belgian interior design characteristics : oak furniture and doors, oak ceiling beams, linen curtains and upholstery, dark painted walls and subdued colors.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I hope that my first blogpost of this year was interesting enough to you all !</span></p><p></p>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-82483029075323151022011-06-30T02:30:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:19:04.555-07:00Small treasuresSo, as promised, I've got pictures of the things I purchased last weekend at the Randolph Street Market ... and they were each under $25! Truth be told, that's one of my favorite things about this market ... the little things I sometimes come across that just make me smile. The big pieces of furniture or mirrors aren't hard to spot. But the true treasure hunt begins when you stop at a table filled with items and take the time to look and find that one special little thing you just <em>have</em> to have.<br /><br />My first find was this wonderfully weathered, hand-carved corbel ...<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmtnrjTW4I6A2rFMGHwcOHMWRlTNQFSSAPBMMz2KM6czpOKlVhbwKjsgRULiX7AxkgdfYtwQ7pRM1eDVEYP-ujXrA8klpTVdirotW4yq5fk0Y5o0AwpNG4WOB6HuMUYhPhSfwKnH-Aa6Z/s1600/IMG_9328w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmtnrjTW4I6A2rFMGHwcOHMWRlTNQFSSAPBMMz2KM6czpOKlVhbwKjsgRULiX7AxkgdfYtwQ7pRM1eDVEYP-ujXrA8klpTVdirotW4yq5fk0Y5o0AwpNG4WOB6HuMUYhPhSfwKnH-Aa6Z/s320/IMG_9328w.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(That's Kyle all dressed for the pool but willing to be my blog assistant before we headed out.)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like to imagine what old building it came from ... and where its siblings are currently residing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn4sZLWCeOp8xakQiWuhAv4oOt3TCqCMplWQK92de29_s34HPaD86VlUekeQ8FpMPrpaZkjirNDIwElS4nBuAkS10v87usmtt6fCYq8mo1LFbkSp9OO_fF3rvinkJXyKRxQOU-n6bd8fa/s1600/IMG_9330w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn4sZLWCeOp8xakQiWuhAv4oOt3TCqCMplWQK92de29_s34HPaD86VlUekeQ8FpMPrpaZkjirNDIwElS4nBuAkS10v87usmtt6fCYq8mo1LFbkSp9OO_fF3rvinkJXyKRxQOU-n6bd8fa/s400/IMG_9330w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For us, it will reside on a wall in the kitchen as a little shelf.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimiLipI1jPnogUCrT-rIzVhgYzGgWQu-VjNMdO1g-EXya3d6yDuGPSh8EX4sXwgVAYiP-Ds18l7ZAYmN4MKJVq56MbV70AY1UqqIejTD0MC1xgMcKnGe9RnOtI5eb-JmtJ0vbJ-Y_lDw11/s1600/IMG_9329w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimiLipI1jPnogUCrT-rIzVhgYzGgWQu-VjNMdO1g-EXya3d6yDuGPSh8EX4sXwgVAYiP-Ds18l7ZAYmN4MKJVq56MbV70AY1UqqIejTD0MC1xgMcKnGe9RnOtI5eb-JmtJ0vbJ-Y_lDw11/s400/IMG_9329w.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We haven't hung it yet, but Kyle wanted you to get the idea. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cost? $25.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I recently saw another great use for something like this, if you were ever able to snag a bunch of them. This is especially great if you have a rather <em>un</em>interesting kitchen island that you'd like to spruce up. Like this one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIHZaId60-h5Vx9w-7uLn63EVH71r2bcse41O3MH12Uh2BDGKzK-eGkUVp4kaYXcxqk-7Aewawe81WeXO74pWPNNXVyPNM-n-Y-m284XwACWJt2pRJkejRbpZdPYTtJQNEZOjHtwUg5Jc/s1600/kfd-before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIHZaId60-h5Vx9w-7uLn63EVH71r2bcse41O3MH12Uh2BDGKzK-eGkUVp4kaYXcxqk-7Aewawe81WeXO74pWPNNXVyPNM-n-Y-m284XwACWJt2pRJkejRbpZdPYTtJQNEZOjHtwUg5Jc/s400/kfd-before.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is what Kristen of <a href="http://kfddesigns.blogspot.com/">k.f.d. designs</a> helped transform it into.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrm9c9GQf5wtJLtSZp-IVOLreJxnv2saH6vZeVj4kGDVHLkHguD2_ZG8cPmu956E36hqNi38JIdC-Dpp76-HnFIy7e7b0hYcwwtBEqizpIUTLPZ-UV_fxjKwDb4vs0arYISJx09LBOuWQW/s1600/alamode-island3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="279" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrm9c9GQf5wtJLtSZp-IVOLreJxnv2saH6vZeVj4kGDVHLkHguD2_ZG8cPmu956E36hqNi38JIdC-Dpp76-HnFIy7e7b0hYcwwtBEqizpIUTLPZ-UV_fxjKwDb4vs0arYISJx09LBOuWQW/s320/alamode-island3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYoZ0Y_FF20a_uNskwrTvmA_HsnxrBSNqJNVNbMLhpvMy5d9in2ZJgGVYQpNPqDNb_XWBXCgt-px8LX_HLSeUfEOZk9C5nP-N3K6ixceYcoSIlhALH1p6RTN-79LKyotChaMXJRSU55JZr/s1600/alamode-island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="249" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYoZ0Y_FF20a_uNskwrTvmA_HsnxrBSNqJNVNbMLhpvMy5d9in2ZJgGVYQpNPqDNb_XWBXCgt-px8LX_HLSeUfEOZk9C5nP-N3K6ixceYcoSIlhALH1p6RTN-79LKyotChaMXJRSU55JZr/s320/alamode-island.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kfddesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/traditional-kitchen-work.html"></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3B4f13TrVrndgjr-CPAY37ETgwE5y6MNMIrIh0voefu8rsy1tO2LoC9x9TpO-awAipvTX3sTLYcVIXH_fxi-1yIHFKQ2NmZNG8OxB95uOk7U2DuXW6FN0tdsBkvWzD_on2nQCqYSNhN8/s1600/alamode-island2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3B4f13TrVrndgjr-CPAY37ETgwE5y6MNMIrIh0voefu8rsy1tO2LoC9x9TpO-awAipvTX3sTLYcVIXH_fxi-1yIHFKQ2NmZNG8OxB95uOk7U2DuXW6FN0tdsBkvWzD_on2nQCqYSNhN8/s320/alamode-island2.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kfddesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/traditional-kitchen-work.html"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't you love it? You can read more about the transformation <a href="http://kfddesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/traditional-kitchen-work.html">here. </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also couldn't pass up this beautiful hand-painted box.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjaeqtXUkDoTV7dmWJ-AZuTKxYD1twB4-gOR8vMm5TlbnCso6JnXd8SQe6u_sLzeeG8I6GqHPHcgjbbyNXlgGGxDKrybwMRlP60uUTO3llrtl-hsEZ7xzLg7pXgZXHQD9fyNvAC-7Qh2If/s1600/IMG_9335w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjaeqtXUkDoTV7dmWJ-AZuTKxYD1twB4-gOR8vMm5TlbnCso6JnXd8SQe6u_sLzeeG8I6GqHPHcgjbbyNXlgGGxDKrybwMRlP60uUTO3llrtl-hsEZ7xzLg7pXgZXHQD9fyNvAC-7Qh2If/s400/IMG_9335w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The colors, the pattern ... they just made me swoon. I wonder what has been kept inside over the years. A pearl necklace? Love letters?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cost? $16</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPByyvEGZM7xKI46kL_OOBfMr0LR-dN_uS587UfVVJTgtge2TbAD8bjWv2PPvccdI_nQEbwCoZU9yhLyyujwqzLbGm7pmNL3of-QzMR_CXklscthgKpplF5A_l5e8Ke4zr4yUvZKDk9rvR/s1600/IMG_9334w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPByyvEGZM7xKI46kL_OOBfMr0LR-dN_uS587UfVVJTgtge2TbAD8bjWv2PPvccdI_nQEbwCoZU9yhLyyujwqzLbGm7pmNL3of-QzMR_CXklscthgKpplF5A_l5e8Ke4zr4yUvZKDk9rvR/s400/IMG_9334w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also picked up two of these antlers. One for me, and one for a client.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ZZdCm3jRK8iw_nFq55DCYJflLgzHSyfCysooputkZHWbGa4J0QXSUhrPRs66mM6gtcpKwqj3U5fUkcRoy8iuf8hfjFrMJX4iCQ7WejFSsmwvYBHuUlc4NwiWIzi1Y-2KpaVgvwynpEJE/s1600/IMG_9323w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ZZdCm3jRK8iw_nFq55DCYJflLgzHSyfCysooputkZHWbGa4J0QXSUhrPRs66mM6gtcpKwqj3U5fUkcRoy8iuf8hfjFrMJX4iCQ7WejFSsmwvYBHuUlc4NwiWIzi1Y-2KpaVgvwynpEJE/s400/IMG_9323w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They are kinda like this one from <a href="http://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod100290&categoryId=search">Restoration Hardware</a> ... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDza9caoigu4E96Al51Jzle7YQ8lijNfhEHPa4xPZTXzFxqCUuV-hMOYGX-Yle_O1L3-IamdxpIwwJXUIwZK4AyDoIkoY5rVWjWR4t17nh215fieswgOZpnnFzT3tU-lDPVim-qQQHjN5x/s1600/restoration-hardware-antler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDza9caoigu4E96Al51Jzle7YQ8lijNfhEHPa4xPZTXzFxqCUuV-hMOYGX-Yle_O1L3-IamdxpIwwJXUIwZK4AyDoIkoY5rVWjWR4t17nh215fieswgOZpnnFzT3tU-lDPVim-qQQHjN5x/s320/restoration-hardware-antler.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that costs ... ahem ... $129.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I actually like mine better.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMMX1RFRmtlnDdCmU46Qx99OdBa6lQ_r27GtqhevUwnzc-wt0kOfNfUHiynCdcNQKmKn1zfSxoHZ0klJoEooHi4OmoXnHGJuIvuhSiMIFccD0432qzt8REt0T5oy303Mwj67BQ-dmdLmA/s1600/IMG_9325.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMMX1RFRmtlnDdCmU46Qx99OdBa6lQ_r27GtqhevUwnzc-wt0kOfNfUHiynCdcNQKmKn1zfSxoHZ0klJoEooHi4OmoXnHGJuIvuhSiMIFccD0432qzt8REt0T5oy303Mwj67BQ-dmdLmA/s400/IMG_9325.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(And it only cost $15.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope everyone has a Fun, Fabulous Fourth with Family and Friends. I'll be back next week!</div>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-16707066692369854862011-06-28T02:01:00.000-07:002011-07-01T10:13:17.336-07:00Cute Max Side Table<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmxjDFYnDvcgLOUKfVTEiIxtpcaoS2KZzeSGLQGX-aMB8q7r0vDk4-y02kqwuKPkRQ9KWAlXPYsNkTI3Sx_arPBKc4grRwUPJ2IkrZCDY_6kPmZZHAS-ni1iaPZ2hVGcIHwq2sLloyF4/s1600/black+%2526+spiro+max+side+table+-+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmxjDFYnDvcgLOUKfVTEiIxtpcaoS2KZzeSGLQGX-aMB8q7r0vDk4-y02kqwuKPkRQ9KWAlXPYsNkTI3Sx_arPBKc4grRwUPJ2IkrZCDY_6kPmZZHAS-ni1iaPZ2hVGcIHwq2sLloyF4/s640/black+%2526+spiro+max+side+table+-+1.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><br /><em>I've posted about our custom made Max coffee table before but today we took delivery of this little Max side table which I had made for placement between 2 single beds in a client's guest bedroom. I couldn't resist sharing this little beauty with you all. </em>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-62694746472113719042011-06-27T05:12:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:19:04.555-07:00Randolph Street Market Festival: Take 2Okay, so if you read my <a href="http://swoon-interiors.blogspot.com/2011/06/city-adventures.html">post</a> from about a month ago, you'll know that my last trip to the <a href="http://www.randolphstreetmarket.com/">Randolph Street Market</a> over Memorial Day Weekend lasted only about 20 minutes before we were hit with a monsoon of epic proportions.<br /><br />So, my boys promised me we could try again for the next one which happened to be this last weekend, and a beautiful, sunny, 70 degree day.<br /><br />Lots of interesting things ....<br /><br />Upon first entering was a huge table filled with all of these wonderful grain sacks:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_qMWbcEVWZQ3sMMtys9SJdseD_U_K786RhIG8Mgjs9lU4cRVPdom8ZCuNKv8iIcAYMgJWjsxG8TTbCebxrJ3cvWa2siJcyV1rJ0_JDZ93jzb3INWv-4ayOHEJNjYdM0-5d9-JHAsnebv/s1600/IMG_9281w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_qMWbcEVWZQ3sMMtys9SJdseD_U_K786RhIG8Mgjs9lU4cRVPdom8ZCuNKv8iIcAYMgJWjsxG8TTbCebxrJ3cvWa2siJcyV1rJ0_JDZ93jzb3INWv-4ayOHEJNjYdM0-5d9-JHAsnebv/s400/IMG_9281w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So perfect for making pillows or table runners.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnX5fYn8K3Pgp3l_erqeyJM_x1FHCL2f1Y0t8SyZcoEn578URg6XACZWy1FF5n2GwCeTeV0gvIEH5VVBN3H0_Ts16aCKa1IikT0Pt6Zl3hurPbL12THtqwSzfTi31cWo4IMw-uQS5SWaOL/s1600/IMG_9282w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnX5fYn8K3Pgp3l_erqeyJM_x1FHCL2f1Y0t8SyZcoEn578URg6XACZWy1FF5n2GwCeTeV0gvIEH5VVBN3H0_Ts16aCKa1IikT0Pt6Zl3hurPbL12THtqwSzfTi31cWo4IMw-uQS5SWaOL/s400/IMG_9282w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved this old steamer trunk. I wonder who D.R.G.M. is, and what grand ocean liners it traveled in its day.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFslGVLWkTXdupe6ox1M76v4g7xlcIGrRX0q55EYKhMuVij8RvGe5YPCu4GaA-S1lEt3IrUS06WYwDX-9fmjMebAnWlOpI8xTZNJir40MSV-dgmBAsNGvwv4FvzkAYc-hAaEXUrdYkb0yV/s1600/IMG_9283w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFslGVLWkTXdupe6ox1M76v4g7xlcIGrRX0q55EYKhMuVij8RvGe5YPCu4GaA-S1lEt3IrUS06WYwDX-9fmjMebAnWlOpI8xTZNJir40MSV-dgmBAsNGvwv4FvzkAYc-hAaEXUrdYkb0yV/s400/IMG_9283w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Think of all the clothes and shoes you could carry in that thing .... even a 7 year old boy!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEK2f_URLRe8f3JbuSJvRPRZH72UZAGDUVEsbkVQnkPxpaPQujtr4Le1xJCyuu7lqXKsIPhFNQetgAbPcY6t3gyakXDLAMYMt5Xy_CLhsJ17qWpbp5dIGBSdEYeeZb0NjnM_iyM8_tMBIB/s1600/IMG_9284w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEK2f_URLRe8f3JbuSJvRPRZH72UZAGDUVEsbkVQnkPxpaPQujtr4Le1xJCyuu7lqXKsIPhFNQetgAbPcY6t3gyakXDLAMYMt5Xy_CLhsJ17qWpbp5dIGBSdEYeeZb0NjnM_iyM8_tMBIB/s400/IMG_9284w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A <a href="http://swoon-interiors.blogspot.com/2011/03/so-thats-what-theyre-called.html">demijohn</a>! (love)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYHi1w1sZE9Fx1BiXTZVwllOl_E7EVAQjWfowX_3TkXr3aK-iId0Rn6O9KI6gVBRO3i2IVTqPbqr0Qdr-Wa8bbc-uyZeRUHRYGzuSt2FyHzttGpqpgPnbFoifIo9xWHC4IjRysmUVY3z7/s1600/IMG_9285w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYHi1w1sZE9Fx1BiXTZVwllOl_E7EVAQjWfowX_3TkXr3aK-iId0Rn6O9KI6gVBRO3i2IVTqPbqr0Qdr-Wa8bbc-uyZeRUHRYGzuSt2FyHzttGpqpgPnbFoifIo9xWHC4IjRysmUVY3z7/s400/IMG_9285w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My husband and I were eyeing up a pair of these industrial shelves (on wheels) for our office.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAIxp7tv_e4Vr9ayRuIcsA1f5GIBnxGBo_rxdCJReVP-qVAbt3vQESHGKWTcQ5D-m01o1VxMa1MHavwfmxCyqgtU-_PURUYbXhAgPZxd5jJ2T5JRIpBi20rskR0pEHZhO5z9K4h-p58Vx0/s1600/IMG_9286w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAIxp7tv_e4Vr9ayRuIcsA1f5GIBnxGBo_rxdCJReVP-qVAbt3vQESHGKWTcQ5D-m01o1VxMa1MHavwfmxCyqgtU-_PURUYbXhAgPZxd5jJ2T5JRIpBi20rskR0pEHZhO5z9K4h-p58Vx0/s400/IMG_9286w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSgtm5ixznQMKXw_H6ArdOYVi4HEVX6yl52D4r6gsLx3SL2h0yAZjU2EQIkhwT3BWXSLqTeMNcq_OFCyCb3rd7t1w3FJn5NijwW1HzQ7r4bMTqpkRCkBHvqqP2HYUxy465igTLzAbPZqIf/s1600/IMG_9287w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSgtm5ixznQMKXw_H6ArdOYVi4HEVX6yl52D4r6gsLx3SL2h0yAZjU2EQIkhwT3BWXSLqTeMNcq_OFCyCb3rd7t1w3FJn5NijwW1HzQ7r4bMTqpkRCkBHvqqP2HYUxy465igTLzAbPZqIf/s400/IMG_9287w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kyle and Braden thought these old movie theater seats were way cool.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8M3UbEV7WnYOrVq7SP8ZA_huF1i6eDVMN_X00lvEgeZqH65d3XG7bG__axrUWs5TapKJdbLT2LItV6iGL0H3rVHmLC4gGiRrB9y2cZfczJdpeeKmazUg-emEzhvoqoMP3jDiSmsbvURZ/s1600/IMG_9289w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8M3UbEV7WnYOrVq7SP8ZA_huF1i6eDVMN_X00lvEgeZqH65d3XG7bG__axrUWs5TapKJdbLT2LItV6iGL0H3rVHmLC4gGiRrB9y2cZfczJdpeeKmazUg-emEzhvoqoMP3jDiSmsbvURZ/s400/IMG_9289w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've always liked the idea of lining a mudroom with lockers ... wouldn't these be great painted a bright color?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsBO32Rrtnrg-AObWG2l5C0ix2w8U5n7ChEnW2I7y94u-_xwqC3yU4O_pWCNtE_ipIOSIyhNyLU2OsuziWBYBYrOwS6OPR8EaLl2_EaKSoe3YVlNnjMqiDkyf1kt28G8bYg-vpr3QT1Iq/s1600/IMG_9291w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsBO32Rrtnrg-AObWG2l5C0ix2w8U5n7ChEnW2I7y94u-_xwqC3yU4O_pWCNtE_ipIOSIyhNyLU2OsuziWBYBYrOwS6OPR8EaLl2_EaKSoe3YVlNnjMqiDkyf1kt28G8bYg-vpr3QT1Iq/s400/IMG_9291w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A wonderful old suitcase I'm now wishing I bought.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHirFvTYB91C1u1fyzNxzG2Hr69B-2p4D-TaI7kePXSg7H-awIvxd2XmLTdSSibZ2lFq3zLTEBVeMSosiYkcibMBWi6SQpFXmYaSgRunwcdLfWe9Nnj7Uv-9DlheiPbOK-JivDDWcLtTjo/s1600/IMG_9292w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHirFvTYB91C1u1fyzNxzG2Hr69B-2p4D-TaI7kePXSg7H-awIvxd2XmLTdSSibZ2lFq3zLTEBVeMSosiYkcibMBWi6SQpFXmYaSgRunwcdLfWe9Nnj7Uv-9DlheiPbOK-JivDDWcLtTjo/s400/IMG_9292w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mirrors are always fun.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEY6daIXZg2BqOEIwX6f9hL3T_d4jfI2GCw6eyrmEAkZhBGxPl3WWi8JoQ-lrTy3pqzVQcBitCwomLPlkIE5KrzWhCmnstq4trFB9H7TM690R2hEWGAIxy9HTZG-ryjfGAvJ6pBilk9ZSc/s1600/IMG_9295w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEY6daIXZg2BqOEIwX6f9hL3T_d4jfI2GCw6eyrmEAkZhBGxPl3WWi8JoQ-lrTy3pqzVQcBitCwomLPlkIE5KrzWhCmnstq4trFB9H7TM690R2hEWGAIxy9HTZG-ryjfGAvJ6pBilk9ZSc/s400/IMG_9295w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Love this weathered pedestal table ... AND the turquoise dresser behind it!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDA_EQqmJYv1eYjpwkzLiPR5nv4_wJ2UIzcfxbTwei55I2NhNAJWRJxYIgJs2g31kqu4Yg6qavTmibIdeQrgSVXIsdXOovTFSaty7RmHo_kjcZEx8ZUPIxO0I1y2X1utw_6VDsO48BF_U/s1600/IMG_9296w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDA_EQqmJYv1eYjpwkzLiPR5nv4_wJ2UIzcfxbTwei55I2NhNAJWRJxYIgJs2g31kqu4Yg6qavTmibIdeQrgSVXIsdXOovTFSaty7RmHo_kjcZEx8ZUPIxO0I1y2X1utw_6VDsO48BF_U/s400/IMG_9296w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Louis XVI style chair in a bird print! (<em>Swoon.)</em></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJEXCzimFax0DooMygz_HwtbZFtfa_mwo0GKIh9Kj6B7Z3dEK04y8l-qJVpKu4Uv8oXsO2JnGQ61dMHL2_87McobSJORryKJ13JSsKknuKpIih4M44zYWvMaZiXJKMVaq79j9iUMm1svV/s1600/IMG_9297w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJEXCzimFax0DooMygz_HwtbZFtfa_mwo0GKIh9Kj6B7Z3dEK04y8l-qJVpKu4Uv8oXsO2JnGQ61dMHL2_87McobSJORryKJ13JSsKknuKpIih4M44zYWvMaZiXJKMVaq79j9iUMm1svV/s400/IMG_9297w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More mirrors ... with fantastic old tin frames.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU1njfTv7jupwZb_oWdxhSi7iQ6-mNeFo6T3zGt_Q4IZZSVv_r4XiUv6JeQK8dbY6Rv0I8nqhMr6lSBaZeq1UMDcf7fhvpKnh-C_0dLJPiLRiFShB9Bhv7ayyeYFs8GfDz3maAdXlxr9S/s1600/IMG_9300w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU1njfTv7jupwZb_oWdxhSi7iQ6-mNeFo6T3zGt_Q4IZZSVv_r4XiUv6JeQK8dbY6Rv0I8nqhMr6lSBaZeq1UMDcf7fhvpKnh-C_0dLJPiLRiFShB9Bhv7ayyeYFs8GfDz3maAdXlxr9S/s400/IMG_9300w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I would love to build a room around these old factory mirrors.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOq-nuLi-mNtldzRTw_zrtwz-5iGcxqHotInkCB8LNqblx2YFbjl3VlpJchgpqsAxXj9QcWTXc0SHQ7Wp3QsbL67WEnhEKbs1L-XNlKHtflzkgCTe6jwhrwdAtrqpZxjJuuyG3DXfm0jXe/s1600/IMG_9303w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOq-nuLi-mNtldzRTw_zrtwz-5iGcxqHotInkCB8LNqblx2YFbjl3VlpJchgpqsAxXj9QcWTXc0SHQ7Wp3QsbL67WEnhEKbs1L-XNlKHtflzkgCTe6jwhrwdAtrqpZxjJuuyG3DXfm0jXe/s400/IMG_9303w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And still ... more mirrors. These antique cog wheel mirrors would be perfect in a swanky bachelor pad.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mmB1nT3750Ecz53lm-rE3CWsn1Cu86AGB9ruSt2ta_RzCqAkx0zh3IRtAhFrSGBmnGsOHjojK8OjMY11WyWxgPYttdov3yZp3xLrMaLbPs-hfwvZCSkCPPV5VIcKeAYkcHXOTs3Tplbn/s1600/IMG_9304w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mmB1nT3750Ecz53lm-rE3CWsn1Cu86AGB9ruSt2ta_RzCqAkx0zh3IRtAhFrSGBmnGsOHjojK8OjMY11WyWxgPYttdov3yZp3xLrMaLbPs-hfwvZCSkCPPV5VIcKeAYkcHXOTs3Tplbn/s400/IMG_9304w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I was so excited when the lovely Gosia of <a href="http://www.architecturalanarchy.com/">Architectural Anarchy</a> recognized me as I approached he booth and said hello. I didn't even know she would be there. She had some lovely things as well, although I realized after we got home that I was so busy talking to her that I forgot to take very many pictures of her booth. I am still overdue in getting to their showroom down in Pilsen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did love this antique clock face. It is not a working clock, but would still make quite a statement on the right wall. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgdxF7FUvzz8KaynpQcy2oJG1P5K4NIWtvRs7L-sJpuS2FD5djyoeCxzlbtpLerrEc7XSObfQd-uDq67kSkypo34qlOZDPK8SdQXj1JJt1eWhmd3E5Zs2Bd0xFCl916nTL9fmTQOkIHzD/s1600/IMG_9305w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgdxF7FUvzz8KaynpQcy2oJG1P5K4NIWtvRs7L-sJpuS2FD5djyoeCxzlbtpLerrEc7XSObfQd-uDq67kSkypo34qlOZDPK8SdQXj1JJt1eWhmd3E5Zs2Bd0xFCl916nTL9fmTQOkIHzD/s400/IMG_9305w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also loved this chalkboard globe.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszO8Ffbcp-ZZUk5aTDvSDtOAS4qwuEybL8oX-TNcdmi8nW80Po2NEjvJUqVz20jTQLXuqB-33wrLc9a0aAE7855a4hQdNB1Uy_bA90kf34FgCQ4NhGJ7oqY5SEL9GX8lJWontwQs_wyiF/s1600/IMG_9306w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszO8Ffbcp-ZZUk5aTDvSDtOAS4qwuEybL8oX-TNcdmi8nW80Po2NEjvJUqVz20jTQLXuqB-33wrLc9a0aAE7855a4hQdNB1Uy_bA90kf34FgCQ4NhGJ7oqY5SEL9GX8lJWontwQs_wyiF/s400/IMG_9306w.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And what, if anything, did we purchase? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll share with you later in the week!</div>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-44010507409234990572011-06-27T01:49:00.000-07:002011-06-30T07:15:38.987-07:00And they were here…!<p align="center">I was so excited to see Brooke and her family arriving at our home on Saturday !! All the way down from Los Angeles to that small village in Belgium where we live! We were so pleased to meet each other!! The first moments I couldn’t believe this was happening! But if felt as we had known each other for a long time! And in fact it is! Two years of reading each other’s blog and emailing, abled us to know so much about each other’s life and about things that keep us busy in life! </p> <p align="center">Brooke, Steve and her children are wonderful, lovely people!! And it wasn’t hard at all to start conversations with this family! They are all adorable!</p> <p align="center">I have to confess that I didn’t took that much pictures because I was too excited I guess, but I do know that Steve has taken a lot of pictures and I am sure you will see more of our meeting on Brooke’s blog <a href="http://brookegiannetti.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Velvet & Linen</strong></a> the next days!</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tnMBkjLA1kw/TghDusDlwxI/AAAAAAAAKeA/8JThGcBnYt0/s1600-h/20110626_1948162.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="2011-06-26_194816" border="0" alt="2011-06-26_194816" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-B-tfy83839o/TghDvK4jNoI/AAAAAAAAKeE/WiOtd2-jMHs/20110626_194816_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="517"></a>Brooke and me.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">After we had a glass of champagne to celebrate our meeting, we made a little house tour.</p> <p align="center"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 023" border="0" alt="Foto 023" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TCOKPVEWU5U/TghDvjl8b6I/AAAAAAAAKeI/QLvZDMFAyGo/Foto023_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412">Unfortunately the weather was not that gorgeous. It was too chilly and we weren’t able to take the apero or to have lucnch outdoors.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 013" border="0" alt="Foto 013" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-67SpcER7Bns/TghDwe2MYpI/AAAAAAAAKeM/JRfImAg3jqQ/Foto013_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></p> <p align="center">But as you can see we went outside to see our outbuilding in which Brooke and Steve were very interested. They loved the weathered oak we used for our typical Belgian outbuilding.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-tCaqjMWhmJk/TghDw0cmBVI/AAAAAAAAKeQ/3LzCOY0CQzk/s1600-h/Foto0113.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 011" border="0" alt="Foto 011" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-s5NdrR6PFfY/TghDxnSilkI/AAAAAAAAKeU/27z8EBWyAlQ/Foto011_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> Brooke enjoyed our garden!</p> <p align="center"> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-i2Gy4pt4gaA/TghDyGdjp9I/AAAAAAAAKeY/kWBb9EzExFA/s1600-h/Foto0123.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 012" border="0" alt="Foto 012" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0Z4mW9w6j6I/TghDyiZ-vsI/AAAAAAAAKec/ikaM3bNWBUA/Foto012_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> As being an architect Steve loved to know more about the Belgian architectural construction details!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Qkdusml4ABk/TghDzDkfMFI/AAAAAAAAKeg/xpIQLBZCfrU/s1600-h/Foto0093.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 009" border="0" alt="Foto 009" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_eofigLuyBg/TghD0CERx9I/AAAAAAAAKek/OvPOUL0ygQ8/Foto009_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> So I am sure that Jan and Steve had lots of things to tell each other about architectural materials and construction! That was just wonderful!</p> <p align="center">Jan assured me that it was so interesting talking with Steve and that he would have loved to have more time to spend with Steve!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">And then we invited the Giannetti family to have lunch with us.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wLOWGi_a54c/TghD0sqAjOI/AAAAAAAAKeo/yM14YkaP-VU/s1600-h/Foto0053.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 005" border="0" alt="Foto 005" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-8XVh32QTTlw/TghD1d02RbI/AAAAAAAAKes/g6rCPM___iE/Foto005_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> The day before I had prepared the table setting in our dining room.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6GZMWtiUQks/TghD1zcY2iI/AAAAAAAAKew/smaYAyn0mv8/s1600-h/Foto0032.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 003" border="0" alt="Foto 003" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-dlaxGVneM-w/TghD2eLjekI/AAAAAAAAKe0/HJTiq6PpvjE/Foto003_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mWqV0uFCuC0/TghD2-h-SLI/AAAAAAAAKe4/wVRbw164yAU/s1600-h/Foto0022.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 002" border="0" alt="Foto 002" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-PmV2DRTmvgY/TghD3fUjFTI/AAAAAAAAKe8/cmmUqKEnIy4/Foto002_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></a> </p> <p></p> <p align="center">And it was just wonderful to have Brooke, Steve, Charlie, Nick en Leila at our table! We had so much to talk about. We have so much in commun! And I agreed with Brooke that in fact it is much easier to chat with blogfriends than with the people of our close environment, even knowing them since a long time. We really communicate in another way with our blogfriends, because we are more or less interested in the same things! </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EN1nsq3hfsQ/TghD3uKLxYI/AAAAAAAAKfA/12GOwamHFvk/s1600-h/Foto0252.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 025" border="0" alt="Foto 025" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JgrVFXRkyLQ/TghD4J4X8LI/AAAAAAAAKfE/nS-6DIBL5Yg/Foto025_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="373"></a> </p> <p align="center">In my previous post about Brooke’s visit I showed you the pictures of the Menu courses we were going to have as lunch <a href="http://belgianpearls.blogspot.com/2011/06/warm-welcome-to-brooke-and-her-family.html" target="_blank">(here)</a>.</p> <p align="center">As a starter we had the A<em>sparagus prepared in ‘the Flemish way’</em> (for a recipe click <a href="http://evitana.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/asparagus-prepared-in-a-flemish-way/" target="_blank">here</a>).</p> <p align="center">As main course we have chosen for a typical Belgian meal, <em>Pork cheeks </em>(for a recipe click <a href="http://www.ifood.tv/network/braised_beef_cheeks/recipes" target="_blank">here</a>).</p> <p align="center">And as dessert we had the Italian <em>Pannacotta</em> (for a recipe click <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/vanillapannacotta_87907" target="_blank">here</a>).</p> <p> </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p align="center">Between the courses we made an inside home tour.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-l4SCQowiC6s/TghD4nfkOFI/AAAAAAAAKfI/FrRjdE1Ha6M/s1600-h/Foto0202.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 020" border="0" alt="Foto 020" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TabXmWyTwq0/TghD5QFD_tI/AAAAAAAAKfM/FQjURV0HXhg/Foto020_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></a> An animated chat in the wine cellar.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-I8H6IXf5ZqY/TghD57x2JtI/AAAAAAAAKfQ/ean75R434JY/s1600-h/Foto0263.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 026" border="0" alt="Foto 026" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-R8ZlCe93BEs/TghD6gUQ4VI/AAAAAAAAKfU/EqIE3TZEggU/Foto026_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> Brooke sitting in our library.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hNcwmL9x_sM/TghD65BzlsI/AAAAAAAAKfY/99YCwZsc0cY/s1600-h/Foto0273.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 027" border="0" alt="Foto 027" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-u3njjeHWuNk/TghD7qTsODI/AAAAAAAAKfc/eqYf8nzmgK4/Foto027_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> I just love this picture of Brooke! She is totally wrapped up in the conversation! As we know here!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">While our boys Charlie, Nick and Anthony stayed at home, we drove Brooke, Steve and Leila to a merchandiser of antique building materials.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SbY3Iyfk0m8/TghD8Czf7MI/AAAAAAAAKfg/5NnPfvI54og/s1600-h/Foto0283.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 028" border="0" alt="Foto 028" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5dCwB_13HJI/TghD843uVeI/AAAAAAAAKfk/m09mIz_XwR4/Foto028_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> Brooke with the owner.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-h1CtbP790HQ/TghD9c4RuOI/AAAAAAAAKfo/GhBrQ0sw79M/s1600-h/Foto0312.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 031" border="0" alt="Foto 031" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-n6fZjxE8ISs/TghD-JsZ_pI/AAAAAAAAKfs/JFQjKUDZl3o/Foto031_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></a> </p> <p align="center">Brooke and Steve were searching for some antique doors to bring into their future home ‘Patina Farm’.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-cOnvk-A9PRI/TghD-e_UgKI/AAAAAAAAKfw/pUfgwxqKfcQ/s1600-h/Foto0352.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 035" border="0" alt="Foto 035" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dP2q6rtWYJ0/TghD-7sOQnI/AAAAAAAAKf0/C03tiFesPwA/Foto035_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></a> Steve is checking the dimensions of the doors.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2nWreq1EYDY/TghD_KM_-2I/AAAAAAAAKf4/-ch16ahY1Rg/s1600-h/Foto0363.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 036" border="0" alt="Foto 036" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-V-oNha31wR8/TghD_wwiB3I/AAAAAAAAKf8/GP9Xtbe_ps0/Foto036_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a> Bingo! Brooke added her name on the appropriate doors.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-pYfzsrTIAiM/TghEAMO-27I/AAAAAAAAKgA/g0nHXeU-mqw/s1600-h/Foto0383.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 038" border="0" alt="Foto 038" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-EjR4_HPXqt8/TghEA5vRjvI/AAAAAAAAKgE/AMVYTgg0IMo/Foto038_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a></p> <p align="center">Brooke, Steve and Jan nosed in the cabinet with antique architectural hardware.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-HLhvDox_ZsI/TghEBZDuAXI/AAAAAAAAKgI/s7LKH3TmrJI/s1600-h/Foto0422.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 042" border="0" alt="Foto 042" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RiPtjBnb2TI/TghEBztBQlI/AAAAAAAAKgM/mT6AIqbNCt8/Foto042_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="412"></a> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XH5jx8Inhd4/TghECLs6iII/AAAAAAAAKgQ/RqS-QyDAjTc/s1600-h/Foto0403.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 040" border="0" alt="Foto 040" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1APaonkK0_A/TghECyOrCbI/AAAAAAAAKgU/OiZbwNoFSvc/Foto040_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">After a few hours we drove home again! Time went by much toooo fast!!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">My friends I have to tell you something special !!!!</p> <p align="center">Brooke brought me a present!!!! I was totally excited!! Can you imagine, Brooke offered me the only copy she already had from their new book she and Steve wrote <em><strong>‘PATINA STYLE’ !!!!!!!!! </strong></em></p> <p align="center">I couldn’t believe!! That was sooo generous of Brooke and Steve! Brooke thought about it that it wouldn’t be easy for me to find the book here in Belgium. And yes indeed, I couldn’t pre-order it yet!</p> <p align="center">My dear friends I want you to know that the book is fantastic, fabulous, gorgeous!!! I am so pleased to have it on my coffee table! And I will be so proud to tell my clients and friends about our wonderful and talented friends Brooke and Steve and to show them this wonderful and precious gift that this book means to me!</p> <p align="center">Brooke you are a sweetie (she really is!!) ! Thank you so much for this precious gift.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YeqP26n25Y4/TghEDp0TF1I/AAAAAAAAKgY/-i-BjsTU5nw/s1600-h/Foto0483.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 048" border="0" alt="Foto 048" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-MADxmRhVo_g/TghEEYZWFxI/AAAAAAAAKgc/iGThndRHLfg/Foto048_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="550" height="733"></a><strong><em><u>‘PATINA FARM’</u></em></strong> on my coffee table! I really recommend you to pre-order the book! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patina-Style-Brooke-Giannetti/dp/1423622537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303872024&sr=8-1" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-U23GRlPrLK8/TghEFGfBgUI/AAAAAAAAKgg/SLFTxhyx1Uw/s1600-h/Foto0493.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Foto 049" border="0" alt="Foto 049" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3zkwPs1yHQA/TghEFp1L9YI/AAAAAAAAKgk/lCHKIYHEyeM/Foto049_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="300" height="400"></a> </p> <p align="center">As on Saturday the weather was bad, yesterday we had a wonderful sunny day! Incredible I know! But that is the way it is in Belgium! </p> <p align="center">Believe me friends, yesterday I was a bit sad!! Our time with Brooke and Steve was definitely too short! Jan and me talked about our meeting with the Giannetti family the other day and realized that there were so many more things that we would have loved to talk about with them! Unfortunately the day was too short! But there is one thing that I am sure about! We will stay in touch with Brooke and Steve and we would be so pleased to help them with the construction of their future home ‘Patina Farm’.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">So yesterday afternoon, installed in our garden, I started to read <strong><em>‘Patina Farm’</em></strong> and couldn’t stop! I finished the book and I just loved reading it! Brooke and Steve are giving us wonderful tips to decorate our home, together with the most beautiful inspirational pictures!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">Brooke and Steve, you are just wonderful people ! Jan and me are so pleased to call you friends! We are so thankful to you for the respect and friendschip we have received from you both!</p> <p align="center">We are looking forward to meet you and your family in Los Angeles next year!</p> <p></p> <p align="center">xx</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-B_4886xl610/TghEF8hju8I/AAAAAAAAKgo/NUXRg9ArsWo/s1600-h/Signature2.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Signature" border="0" alt="Signature" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-q6qa2oMjOlY/TghEGerE0eI/AAAAAAAAKgs/93ocjzw5Cyg/Signature_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="76" height="45"></a></p> narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-22135743036306294382011-06-26T23:26:00.000-07:002011-07-01T10:13:17.336-07:00First Bulbs Flowering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJ8NUepP2a9oCXMp8VnWITiRqY6G4qxcIzKc_tl3crPhYJ5JTwCQFoN3kSCjJ8B1rLvqjQuQtPEnCHKHCRjBn-QUnG3GTmGAuejzoKoYd2QAySZ0hDkMU2M0O05Mu3gn2XP92Qav7UDI/s1600/flowers-june-2011-first+bulb+for+the+season.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJ8NUepP2a9oCXMp8VnWITiRqY6G4qxcIzKc_tl3crPhYJ5JTwCQFoN3kSCjJ8B1rLvqjQuQtPEnCHKHCRjBn-QUnG3GTmGAuejzoKoYd2QAySZ0hDkMU2M0O05Mu3gn2XP92Qav7UDI/s640/flowers-june-2011-first+bulb+for+the+season.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fq-fmpSZ5bZPkM6kuBwQ9o0JslXI7iCnMcYsHDEt1S09nq9u2f3BMovzCf85Ijt8FFtUGp9KYDpemQdAav3w121RNJ-aDkhwDw1N0lPyZgm-RV62p94ts51pItRqK4WNqIM4OSiBeA8/s1600/flowers-june-2011-first+bulb+for+the+season.jpg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fq-fmpSZ5bZPkM6kuBwQ9o0JslXI7iCnMcYsHDEt1S09nq9u2f3BMovzCf85Ijt8FFtUGp9KYDpemQdAav3w121RNJ-aDkhwDw1N0lPyZgm-RV62p94ts51pItRqK4WNqIM4OSiBeA8/s640/flowers-june-2011-first+bulb+for+the+season.jpg1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcghPD_b11jA6ZIzsGVvKHmSbh17SuaWSrwi9phswk53UrOagztzwnO8NGzBFRvs6ovpTZV4XLNLUtrywy9S0aJx7-_SUNZEEGfmV301J7rokcaK8IXGXqCv1tbWbKYVnfv9NMNCHDCbo/s1600/flowers-june-2011-first+bulb+for+the+season2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcghPD_b11jA6ZIzsGVvKHmSbh17SuaWSrwi9phswk53UrOagztzwnO8NGzBFRvs6ovpTZV4XLNLUtrywy9S0aJx7-_SUNZEEGfmV301J7rokcaK8IXGXqCv1tbWbKYVnfv9NMNCHDCbo/s640/flowers-june-2011-first+bulb+for+the+season2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /><em>I have been having many conversations with my grandmother of late about our bulbs {flowers}. You see she is a very keen gardener and loves planting lots of bulbs in her garden each year. However, this year her bulbs {and mine too} have been very slow to sprout. She has been ringing me every week asking me if mine have broken the soil yet. You could say that we have been comparing notes. </em><br /><br /><em>As this is my first season planting bulbs I admit I am completely not-in-the-know so each morning I head out to our garden to check on their progress. I think the boys must think I am going slightly mad.</em><br /><br /><em>To my complete excitement, joy and surprise when I went out to the garden on Saturday morning there she was...my very first flowering bulb for 2011!! I spent the entire day weighing up whether or not I should cut her to put into a vase. By Sunday afternoon I decided to cut her and a few other flowers out of our garden including a sprig of our flowering yellow snapdragons. I arranged them in a new jug which I purchased online<a href="http://www.trudysemporium.com.au/product/121/643-Ceramic-Water-Jug-18x20cm"> HERE</a>.</em><br /><br /><em>This gardening thing really is very exciting. I can't wait for the next bulb to flower not to mention the sweet peas and hollyhocks!!</em><br /><br /><em>xx</em><br /><em>Anna</em><br /><br /><em>PS. The lovely nickel lanterns are a new purchase from <a href="http://www.trudysemporium.com.au/product/167/SL4405-Hexagon-Shape-Stainless-Steel-Lamp-">HERE</a>...</em>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-5217921462151023112011-06-24T20:08:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:19:04.555-07:00Modern sectional sofa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzAilkJ9WL2M_NrmMEc-Rku1Y9XAZvHWrcTjBGL7imLD9G3lFs8teZpsQrVRWotHV8w_nLqeMF48GJZiMsJbIWsXGZUp_2bP6j7IUPWueQxbJ7I6NZ0UjqZv7WuwsoShxBv7rrquQEgIm6/s1600/Modern-Sectional-Sofa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzAilkJ9WL2M_NrmMEc-Rku1Y9XAZvHWrcTjBGL7imLD9G3lFs8teZpsQrVRWotHV8w_nLqeMF48GJZiMsJbIWsXGZUp_2bP6j7IUPWueQxbJ7I6NZ0UjqZv7WuwsoShxBv7rrquQEgIm6/s1600/Modern-Sectional-Sofa.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-17535544666163438842011-06-24T20:06:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:19:04.556-07:00Discount sofas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J0Xs5LntqRI/TgRcbMWKxcI/AAAAAAAADCo/9XNphpmpPgo/s400/167-petite-salle-a-manger-attenante-a-la-651x0-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621719857105651138" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bzITAsJTurc/TgRcaVQa3JI/AAAAAAAADCg/2dY7kx-oM_w/s1600/168-le-cuisine-ikea-beneficie-dyu-meme-651x0-3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bzITAsJTurc/TgRcaVQa3JI/AAAAAAAADCg/2dY7kx-oM_w/s400/168-le-cuisine-ikea-beneficie-dyu-meme-651x0-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621719842317589650" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ny_24IUxkU/TgRcZyqHVPI/AAAAAAAADCY/93Jn4ml41f0/s1600/170-la-chambre-principale-qui-integre-la-651x0-3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ny_24IUxkU/TgRcZyqHVPI/AAAAAAAADCY/93Jn4ml41f0/s400/170-la-chambre-principale-qui-integre-la-651x0-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621719833030120690" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RmwDUOA0rpA/TgRcZgTHGyI/AAAAAAAADCQ/8vWDHbTjXeM/s1600/171-salle-de-bain-651x0-3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RmwDUOA0rpA/TgRcZgTHGyI/AAAAAAAADCQ/8vWDHbTjXeM/s400/171-salle-de-bain-651x0-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621719828101798690" /></a>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-45195433698475921522011-06-24T02:30:00.000-07:002011-06-30T06:19:04.556-07:00Two Kinds of SalvageOriginally this post was going to be all about our night at <a href="http://www.salvageone.com/home.php">Salvage One</a> for a charity event called 3H (Home Help and Hope) benefiting a great organization called <a href="http://ffchicago.org/">Facing Forward to End Homelessness</a>. One of my dearest and oldest friends, Courtney, is on their board and always organizes a great event. The organization helps homeless women and children truly transform their lives.<br /><br />Salvage One is a 60,000 square foot old loft building on the city's west side. They literally save architectural elements ... fireplace mantels, staircases. corbels, bathtubs, bars, church pews, you name it ... from the wrecking ball ... giving them new life in creative ways. They also have become a very <em>avante garde</em> event space, especially for weddings with an urban edge. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheeS0UavX8AuhVVm4RSkSSEe_0dMLqXVlHo-stq5K-OyISEM4Y9ZgBATDE6zAgOeN8vFtLhm28c1-IOBAW80r7Fz0tqoSdsgoNmJ_8hS57O4dfr34LDRH2dC5nS0aZ3kiQ_LUATRduCEK_/s1600/Downers+Grove-20110621-00161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheeS0UavX8AuhVVm4RSkSSEe_0dMLqXVlHo-stq5K-OyISEM4Y9ZgBATDE6zAgOeN8vFtLhm28c1-IOBAW80r7Fz0tqoSdsgoNmJ_8hS57O4dfr34LDRH2dC5nS0aZ3kiQ_LUATRduCEK_/s400/Downers+Grove-20110621-00161.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><br />Of course, once we got there, I was kicking myself that I hadn't brought my real camera ... so my iPhone photos will have to do, even though camera phones and low-lighting do not generally like each other. <br /><br />I grabbed a few photos from their website to give you a general idea ...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KPWqoLUpoWGJ0oGinXbklv20vswOM_2UfZL0KhD5Q3bfswgNeT9HlHr2abEXYcHSFCOKin0b-OAR-g0OQsL83aG3avAFNKh0qDYiYNZijmWSRD1iUz4J-B9GNKWTH6NQU149zbrmJV30/s1600/CharlotteAndrew022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KPWqoLUpoWGJ0oGinXbklv20vswOM_2UfZL0KhD5Q3bfswgNeT9HlHr2abEXYcHSFCOKin0b-OAR-g0OQsL83aG3avAFNKh0qDYiYNZijmWSRD1iUz4J-B9GNKWTH6NQU149zbrmJV30/s400/CharlotteAndrew022.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-7KWwQUuxVFVQKz8vO6LT53fLkjLvOrqGtEtT7mBkzTiMx-r1PlvVY_xB7C-Fiwaqajh9OLc2kQUmNUzwwyQnLrnj33AJDhZ_MEz3RlD2DWbcayOcUkSC49tCXXNczQeNrF00q2pYEr6/s1600/CharlotteAndrew045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-7KWwQUuxVFVQKz8vO6LT53fLkjLvOrqGtEtT7mBkzTiMx-r1PlvVY_xB7C-Fiwaqajh9OLc2kQUmNUzwwyQnLrnj33AJDhZ_MEz3RlD2DWbcayOcUkSC49tCXXNczQeNrF00q2pYEr6/s400/CharlotteAndrew045.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSdL4qNOY1tVuapVpJuH9__c-tIsf4AcFjnHzQXZPIHUSp3alaX-vSecOHX6weXiEvdo9MiBfmRKbBQf8nSPUJV2E5-eY7UNlsX3-1UlbMJyTlNqoi4o5dUUYCWHG5Umnw4KdauTXfhUOx/s1600/vrai_margaretbrian_163_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSdL4qNOY1tVuapVpJuH9__c-tIsf4AcFjnHzQXZPIHUSp3alaX-vSecOHX6weXiEvdo9MiBfmRKbBQf8nSPUJV2E5-eY7UNlsX3-1UlbMJyTlNqoi4o5dUUYCWHG5Umnw4KdauTXfhUOx/s400/vrai_margaretbrian_163_resize.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />See those price tags? Yes, everything's for sale.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ3zWrPaXFjpZyCtrbpdM5vY9QqOuJWhCQE6jYt5LdJC93eDChVkfczoOnRDXGS-Ollqi4hAjLjKN4vxfefSj2y6a_Cuor-GY8IR2QWWQUK_MhCVhbaJBjdGSSsTdiIc-pIA723TLuapS/s1600/CharlotteAndrew046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ3zWrPaXFjpZyCtrbpdM5vY9QqOuJWhCQE6jYt5LdJC93eDChVkfczoOnRDXGS-Ollqi4hAjLjKN4vxfefSj2y6a_Cuor-GY8IR2QWWQUK_MhCVhbaJBjdGSSsTdiIc-pIA723TLuapS/s400/CharlotteAndrew046.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mean seriously, how cool would it be to have wedding here ?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FjPCviD-p9furaOd1TMQqUFVm4HeQ1AE-Cl2KIKCo50IlGhH0NCxrJbvaQnEy0kUjHG3F-3e-2LAZvb-Py52kapwnXfEUvZZkr6il9Ms9UNTNnxFl6ARNUn_VOvNQw21OyImpTDwC_T6/s1600/110122_Courtney_Omar_wedding_0159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FjPCviD-p9furaOd1TMQqUFVm4HeQ1AE-Cl2KIKCo50IlGhH0NCxrJbvaQnEy0kUjHG3F-3e-2LAZvb-Py52kapwnXfEUvZZkr6il9Ms9UNTNnxFl6ARNUn_VOvNQw21OyImpTDwC_T6/s400/110122_Courtney_Omar_wedding_0159.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhtQ2A1jv-82hc5FHFGMtEhjWUOCgTeDRUZU0T3FeI_2VGe5hHm8yrIewNZAoD_N3n84llmfy6tHS2zyNVPx7y57h5fqydS1HmjKJ2t8u6ZnxREQtITCz2GZ1BeuhfqozKBlm6Zvu54nn/s1600/aaronsphotog2013_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhtQ2A1jv-82hc5FHFGMtEhjWUOCgTeDRUZU0T3FeI_2VGe5hHm8yrIewNZAoD_N3n84llmfy6tHS2zyNVPx7y57h5fqydS1HmjKJ2t8u6ZnxREQtITCz2GZ1BeuhfqozKBlm6Zvu54nn/s400/aaronsphotog2013_resize.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDG8FDL-wQHFexNEqmEgOqsjBteeRidhwQtu5pAnScUknkiCj_rgjLIf1l95BNmi8ccnnwVP2jBZI5aE-OB2X0Fq0F32ZF4BX3pcGNe83a88WHloHtPJDbWABwfcn51m8resq029GP3Hwn/s1600/JKPhotography022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDG8FDL-wQHFexNEqmEgOqsjBteeRidhwQtu5pAnScUknkiCj_rgjLIf1l95BNmi8ccnnwVP2jBZI5aE-OB2X0Fq0F32ZF4BX3pcGNe83a88WHloHtPJDbWABwfcn51m8resq029GP3Hwn/s400/JKPhotography022.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QW1C__QXRcVFxi7F3XSSZP8hoL9aFiQHsB-FMgoXC3tmJbDwz_CKJ24EliYnYOkYAHKOrXO6RDYqjT_n62w4P0XelB2yCnHeY_mV2T3Qnszr9g9-aEj_7-TDbGxylyBuVd6Qy3g7pB9-/s1600/i-wXgRWZp-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QW1C__QXRcVFxi7F3XSSZP8hoL9aFiQHsB-FMgoXC3tmJbDwz_CKJ24EliYnYOkYAHKOrXO6RDYqjT_n62w4P0XelB2yCnHeY_mV2T3Qnszr9g9-aEj_7-TDbGxylyBuVd6Qy3g7pB9-/s400/i-wXgRWZp-M.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihocSUJ6CVcFoFKxhV8xY7YRxiABSvxku3o0yG2K1Uch2cLU4a38xhZ5Kzq8gZuFeJdJupjQWxnf6qJc7VZSxvKsh0ihDelhu5q12LCG82Nc2MEP2ChCcWKWEkX-cpK95qUQZC0a83TKYZ/s1600/JKPhotography044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihocSUJ6CVcFoFKxhV8xY7YRxiABSvxku3o0yG2K1Uch2cLU4a38xhZ5Kzq8gZuFeJdJupjQWxnf6qJc7VZSxvKsh0ihDelhu5q12LCG82Nc2MEP2ChCcWKWEkX-cpK95qUQZC0a83TKYZ/s400/JKPhotography044.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All of these photos are from a <a href="http://www.salvageone.com/weddings.php">gallery</a> on their website featuring the various photographers who have done weddings there. Definitely check it out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, my grainy pictures pale in comparison, but I did snap a few of some of the more interesting pieces we encountered.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUlGuLnpd5GlkPdtO0QrkBHnKYcYqYbJkyyRKRXpfu-CTev3GJ5MLJEVAODG8iCn0e_luQZ9VejxjL6fC2rFECt3lOaCIBnmrjfP5Dke4FcbGtea5RDHJkKRynsZCUrpKMU3AnXSq9VqAd/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00137.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUlGuLnpd5GlkPdtO0QrkBHnKYcYqYbJkyyRKRXpfu-CTev3GJ5MLJEVAODG8iCn0e_luQZ9VejxjL6fC2rFECt3lOaCIBnmrjfP5Dke4FcbGtea5RDHJkKRynsZCUrpKMU3AnXSq9VqAd/s400/Chicago-20110621-00137.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's Dan and I trying to do serious faces outside in the back "garden." (I can NEVER manage a serious photo face, I always end up smirking.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And yes, that is a bathtub-turned-fountain behind us.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8bpVyH4flXdnhAzTHEJcMAYODO-Tz2Qv3hxlPqfjBTOSoSopZBD2ciV79IGth56ukAlaAxKBGRj63xxne6u9Gj0Grw3VLPKjCAXmJ7AddM0Vw6rTclu8f9efingsLIXNyaxjZdyI8iTl/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00141.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8bpVyH4flXdnhAzTHEJcMAYODO-Tz2Qv3hxlPqfjBTOSoSopZBD2ciV79IGth56ukAlaAxKBGRj63xxne6u9Gj0Grw3VLPKjCAXmJ7AddM0Vw6rTclu8f9efingsLIXNyaxjZdyI8iTl/s400/Chicago-20110621-00141.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think if I were building a house, it would be so cool to come here and pick out an old fireplace mantel to bring in a little history.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFivq2DVhkJA2MYI_tvLRAQAaOi3qndrwPiAK2g9K7jtQja8OLCsDaJgxSMD4BFg8O122nkH3UxEW7QyCT90b9KZP-EmCnipbfjmVc8jVgQWnf9N6WE09G9mLr8v93H_mUHmwsjhPI3Tq/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFivq2DVhkJA2MYI_tvLRAQAaOi3qndrwPiAK2g9K7jtQja8OLCsDaJgxSMD4BFg8O122nkH3UxEW7QyCT90b9KZP-EmCnipbfjmVc8jVgQWnf9N6WE09G9mLr8v93H_mUHmwsjhPI3Tq/s400/Chicago-20110621-00143.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><br />What kind of bar is more your style? There's old-school bar ...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpwBkFc4lnq-biCXQl4VHzGIBqb9gfiPWvCx5C5dMjKjVNiTk85NUOGMwThyEBVFJO6rwYkogk-1_a_3qahYAsT8rWpWAw9ZB48c5mpIhUrkQrFr9qg1dsx7YhF6ZrpjqCTqyZ4Xc3Lap/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpwBkFc4lnq-biCXQl4VHzGIBqb9gfiPWvCx5C5dMjKjVNiTk85NUOGMwThyEBVFJO6rwYkogk-1_a_3qahYAsT8rWpWAw9ZB48c5mpIhUrkQrFr9qg1dsx7YhF6ZrpjqCTqyZ4Xc3Lap/s400/Chicago-20110621-00153.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or swingin' disco bar ...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNalqiDup5rLkMaVGosWYl97O5OeLtkhnDRYj_qhuOv_CMLwvvwVMYyaUxe1zEaa92e96iJZLrIRQGa5iE-8GMivEktx0XGdSP3Sdh9SV-BeDq-DAsCH9KMK_1mjXhtweHe7qHOF8NjWY/s1600/Downers+Grove-20110621-00158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNalqiDup5rLkMaVGosWYl97O5OeLtkhnDRYj_qhuOv_CMLwvvwVMYyaUxe1zEaa92e96iJZLrIRQGa5iE-8GMivEktx0XGdSP3Sdh9SV-BeDq-DAsCH9KMK_1mjXhtweHe7qHOF8NjWY/s320/Downers+Grove-20110621-00158.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">LOVE this mirror ...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzECF5y6aYtVA-_TLaIQelpIbQeD0gDurY46sspw6m0FvRQYqyAcdan3M-mNYCv3TGeBNJ8oh64JljQCXFn9lIkVeKXa0geqYG1snwP6u8Gtx8L92uA2R71WkAyKqvpeCdtjqTyp8D7I8I/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzECF5y6aYtVA-_TLaIQelpIbQeD0gDurY46sspw6m0FvRQYqyAcdan3M-mNYCv3TGeBNJ8oh64JljQCXFn9lIkVeKXa0geqYG1snwP6u8Gtx8L92uA2R71WkAyKqvpeCdtjqTyp8D7I8I/s400/Chicago-20110621-00154.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this industrial table and sign ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSMSgopzETdQpl8dnmyqoYRZXNt4aIv90eV22TeMs5AvmDGIGhTvJpYd5rZRO7o4cYG_FsA6BQhOJvD4hClPxczCPjdY9VicLQC0Tkk4II6gj4O4ZGKfdDMJc2t8fg4X-cM7JJiMU1Zsy/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00142.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSMSgopzETdQpl8dnmyqoYRZXNt4aIv90eV22TeMs5AvmDGIGhTvJpYd5rZRO7o4cYG_FsA6BQhOJvD4hClPxczCPjdY9VicLQC0Tkk4II6gj4O4ZGKfdDMJc2t8fg4X-cM7JJiMU1Zsy/s400/Chicago-20110621-00142.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you imagine having a house big enough to hold these babies ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAn7nBfsPxwQNvgS1_qJQVwmmudpOz87Y8nsYbJgh4eRM_Laq8BOh40qjAEcDSPXrrFmhvf0DtRzKKqDFgS3QbYhTJUzvp4ZCffR6zZCWvtT-vdYh5lVmB3Z4S_Qp-00U9MOFspOgq2yL/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAn7nBfsPxwQNvgS1_qJQVwmmudpOz87Y8nsYbJgh4eRM_Laq8BOh40qjAEcDSPXrrFmhvf0DtRzKKqDFgS3QbYhTJUzvp4ZCffR6zZCWvtT-vdYh5lVmB3Z4S_Qp-00U9MOFspOgq2yL/s400/Chicago-20110621-00151.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or these ...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexm5OTDYYrpzL6NcXtn0qqk7Dfl3otcu3ccAhyiGCZwTImRX9WKCETlI-iZbBHmvCPKIKkcZfAVAMYnvyLwAYkuSDKGVnmqqimJkOWI4VFPbTXb1cUQOVvp51eVn_bznaso_lOfjHSoqn/s1600/Chicago-20110621-00147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexm5OTDYYrpzL6NcXtn0qqk7Dfl3otcu3ccAhyiGCZwTImRX9WKCETlI-iZbBHmvCPKIKkcZfAVAMYnvyLwAYkuSDKGVnmqqimJkOWI4VFPbTXb1cUQOVvp51eVn_bznaso_lOfjHSoqn/s400/Chicago-20110621-00147.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or a phone booth?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Another great way to add some history to a new house ... I loved these old knobs and doorknobs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNbDVzn9LBtmB_V3ALyZzXmru1hMi1Lq97E0IcvLuqyopqrCVDwrSv53Vid-sA8SfxuAJkLMKCArZgKhO8iOdzkMyiT9vZQgQSNwFVlF9MsnKABovfgkh-NSVCgvmYFS61b-R-ONOPVJa/s1600/Downers+Grove-20110621-00156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNbDVzn9LBtmB_V3ALyZzXmru1hMi1Lq97E0IcvLuqyopqrCVDwrSv53Vid-sA8SfxuAJkLMKCArZgKhO8iOdzkMyiT9vZQgQSNwFVlF9MsnKABovfgkh-NSVCgvmYFS61b-R-ONOPVJa/s400/Downers+Grove-20110621-00156.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4Xbgfx82gpTGIf-mjRe8xL_BXyqpnr85mIH2ryRxHvn7f7dTp3TOKFHPi673Ly0WIC_cepZC735drdd9Xonbs3GTuvk5FnRZ9m21vnI9s22HGcNl3c29UIdD_k0A5ZhOTOztYOndHHO5/s1600/Downers+Grove-20110621-00157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4Xbgfx82gpTGIf-mjRe8xL_BXyqpnr85mIH2ryRxHvn7f7dTp3TOKFHPi673Ly0WIC_cepZC735drdd9Xonbs3GTuvk5FnRZ9m21vnI9s22HGcNl3c29UIdD_k0A5ZhOTOztYOndHHO5/s400/Downers+Grove-20110621-00157.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I would have loved to take this guy home ... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJpTe8dy7jlXTj9xJ_4pXN5w1_iJmEFVygL-qGu6qjYXRC2djCgrZXTr5jQZq-b9odIP3HRMtWA6IH6GD1Rtxvv_7ILeElITUSSw4Iirp_Qa4VMzhOk9Tq5D5r5K73x1uKHXRLZCeZRXI/s1600/Downers+Grove-20110621-00159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJpTe8dy7jlXTj9xJ_4pXN5w1_iJmEFVygL-qGu6qjYXRC2djCgrZXTr5jQZq-b9odIP3HRMtWA6IH6GD1Rtxvv_7ILeElITUSSw4Iirp_Qa4VMzhOk9Tq5D5r5K73x1uKHXRLZCeZRXI/s320/Downers+Grove-20110621-00159.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's an old aviators globe that you can write on with chalk. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Still thinking about him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, that's where the fun ends. We drove home happily until we exited the expressway and with each block we drove, it began to dawn on us that something had gone terribly wrong. The streets were a war zone, fallen trees at every turn. What had looked like just heavy rain out the windows of Salvage One was apparently an almost tornado that passed through our town. We began to frantically zigzag towards our house to find my wonderful, unflappable niece who was babysitting and wasn't able to get through to us on our phones sitting in the dark with her Dad, (my terrific brother-in-law) and my 7 year old who was awake but thankfully calm. My 4 year old apparently conked out right at the beginning of the storm and slept straight through. We also discovered our neighbor's tree laying on our roof.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipFJuFBVgTAJlxevABqlTJmssoKRjJFJhgcnV_Ie_VGdMRquA9xyNZvPsjacgcOSc6MZVWNCOu9i6Iqf9C9XvlRwuus90rdDOsMVzt06MQZBqJbXn5-PM29hnaaot3ik5IV_6-Gx4dVzuF/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipFJuFBVgTAJlxevABqlTJmssoKRjJFJhgcnV_Ie_VGdMRquA9xyNZvPsjacgcOSc6MZVWNCOu9i6Iqf9C9XvlRwuus90rdDOsMVzt06MQZBqJbXn5-PM29hnaaot3ik5IV_6-Gx4dVzuF/s400/photo.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And as I type this it still sits there. Unfortunately, there are so many trees and huge branches down around town and many of the trees can't be salvaged. Now, the tree removal trucks have been so swamped that we still haven't been able to get this one off our roof. Supposedly they will be here in the morning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were without power for about 20 hours. Today I just soaked in the coziness of my house with its coffeepot brewing, its TV's humming and its lamps aglow. Nothing like a long power outage to make you appreciate the comforts of electricity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A friend suggested I should title a blog post "What To Do When a Tree Falls on your House."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, we still don't know yet, but stay tuned.</div>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-20907139648507086402011-06-22T23:08:00.000-07:002011-06-30T07:15:38.987-07:00A warm welcome to Brooke and her family !<p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">Only 2 days to go…!!! Next Saturday I will finally meet my blogfriend Brooke and her lovely family! I know that a lot of you do know quite a while that Brooke of the blog <a href="http://brookegiannetti.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><u>Velvet & Linen</u></a> is coming to visit us! And I am so excited!</p> <p align="center">Jan, Anthony and me are so looking forward to welcome this family at our home!!</p> <p align="center">I met Brooke through blogging almost 2 years ago! She introduced me to the blogging community in August 2009. You can read the post she wrote about me and my blog <a href="http://brookegiannetti.typepad.com/velvet_and_linen/2009/08/greet-lefevre.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I am still most grateful to her for this! Since that day Brooke and I started getting to know each other better and better and I do have to tell that it felt as we have known each other since a long time! We have so much in commun.</p> <p align="center">Some months ago Brooke wrote me that she and Steve planned to visit Europe with their family. And they definitely wanted to visit Belgium to get inspired by the Belgian architectural and interior design style as Brooke and Steve are preparing to built a new home with the beautiful name ‘Patina Farm’. They would love to bring in some European architectural elements.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="1" border="0" alt="1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uFkNWGSBDgs/TgLX_1irVAI/AAAAAAAAKbo/J88JjAdK4bk/1_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="600" height="358">Brooke, Steve and their children Charlie, Nick and Leila</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-p7qfV7WlMME/TgLYAX9-8UI/AAAAAAAAKbs/werphyjhWxo/s1600-h/214.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="21" border="0" alt="21" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LH9yThZcqAA/TgLYAxY209I/AAAAAAAAKbw/vN7U5IuUYLQ/21_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="197"></a>A 3 dimensions model of their new home ‘Patina Farm’.</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ecLOLMPOU08/TgLYBQNNv4I/AAAAAAAAKb0/0WwW6PWmL80/s1600-h/204.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="20" border="0" alt="20" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MYus-fOd1Eg/TgLYCLw3UjI/AAAAAAAAKb4/N3pr2uwpA9M/20_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="252"></a> The gorgeous site in Ojai, California where Brooke and Steve will built their dream house!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">So I might think that Brooke and Steve will definitely be inspired by this kind of houses and reclaimed architectural materials here in Belgium</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9ueM9zWJnPg/TgLYChkwvhI/AAAAAAAAKb8/Dsjp7rR2FDw/s1600-h/224.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="22" border="0" alt="22" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FPSR6UweMMo/TgLYCw2TzrI/AAAAAAAAKcA/4UYpbh_8uG8/22_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="232"></a> A typical Belgian styled house with a combination of a thatched and tiled roof.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Atv7djCCJMI/TgLYDVgfBKI/AAAAAAAAKcE/2hKSfi7EiBQ/s1600-h/234.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="23" border="0" alt="23" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5qqq_X3zjM4/TgLYEJ4imFI/AAAAAAAAKcI/6n33Hw9EmTk/23_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="543"></a> Oak façade and steel windows.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RxBn2omxdxA/TgLYEdZFc8I/AAAAAAAAKcM/HN_D9SZVd_8/s1600-h/184.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="18" border="0" alt="18" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4DuqxpuZ-H8/TgLYE4hHg5I/AAAAAAAAKcQ/gEjTy_w13-8/18_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="640"></a> Oak beamed ceiling, brick floor and again the steel windows.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Piu55vvrFhI/TgLYFsCEi-I/AAAAAAAAKcU/25KN2JHSfaw/s1600-h/174.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="17" border="0" alt="17" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-35l7NyRBuCg/TgLYF5HqBZI/AAAAAAAAKcY/dGOQqT-p62k/17_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="344"></a> Reclaimed doors.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-kGvjO81WVJU/TgLYGZDrtgI/AAAAAAAAKcc/gJ6ZdZaDRz8/s1600-h/244.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="24" border="0" alt="24" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qJqTZ_zzLz0/TgLYGxYU5RI/AAAAAAAAKcg/Dtmu22THev0/24_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="533"></a> Oak door executed by my company <a href="http://www.lefevre.be" target="_blank">Lefèvre Interiors.</a></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">So the Giannetti family will hopefully arrive before noon!</p> <p align="center">And we will of course open a bottle of champagne to celebrate our long awaited meeting!!</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wj2E2KFL2bg/TgLYHPw_f8I/AAAAAAAAKck/LL8QmwwunlQ/s1600-h/195.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="19" border="0" alt="19" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mwmK_NGEnyM/TgLYHyGv3BI/AAAAAAAAKco/HU9J73QCrw4/19_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="500" height="559"></a> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">If the weather conditions will allow us, we will definitely take the apero in our outbuilding that Brooke is looking forward to see.</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tw_ArfiApCU/TgLYIuh3ksI/AAAAAAAAKcs/JLV47pULKjs/s1600-h/53.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="5" border="0" alt="5" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2edSaZuECcY/TgLYJEJykZI/AAAAAAAAKcw/qerqE_LS00M/5_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="300"></a></p> <p align="center">Can you see us yet sipping a glass of champagne here…?!</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qD_4b9d0AI8/TgLYJhIC4pI/AAAAAAAAKc0/7mD4UKy5EXw/s1600-h/63.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="6" border="0" alt="6" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-cCNeghGtDmM/TgLYKd16SdI/AAAAAAAAKc4/2TwtbymYoWw/6_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="533"></a> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">If it is too chilly, I will ask Brooke if she would prefer to take place ....</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0RhocPqPGgU/TgLYKud2TCI/AAAAAAAAKc8/VxwFbZ9rCp4/s1600-h/73.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="7" border="0" alt="7" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ayP6K4BlhLs/TgLYLF2ixNI/AAAAAAAAKdA/rlVi1nAEVls/7_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="533"></a> in our orangery or…</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Z19dUJq352A/TgLYLokML3I/AAAAAAAAKdE/G6tr6GyNFpU/s1600-h/83.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="8" border="0" alt="8" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-MvYmUyUN2BE/TgLYMPRNSQI/AAAAAAAAKdI/5Fbga-wT5vM/8_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="265"></a>…. if she would love to have the apero in our sitting area.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">And after talking and discussing about…, oh my gosh,… so many things, we will invite Steven, Brooke, Charlie, Nick and Leila to have lunch with us.</p> <p align="center"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="3" border="0" alt="3" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0MEaSglVzi4/TgLYMe1biHI/AAAAAAAAKdM/f4eYXf453NM/3_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="267"> I have to prepare the table setting in my dining room tomorrow!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Q5HjYQhH__A/TgLYM0a80FI/AAAAAAAAKdQ/ylXsd_0N7o4/s1600-h/163.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="16" border="0" alt="16" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0OfYYpqJJrQ/TgLYNWYV9nI/AAAAAAAAKdU/KP2GUcf-nWI/16_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="267"></a> I might think that Steve and Jan will go down to our wine cellar to choose a bottle of wine !</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">I won’t tell you the menu yet but I will share some pictures of the courses. Maybe you will be able to guess?!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-exbsnvHCxo0/TgLYNm_vTfI/AAAAAAAAKdY/XfXZDIRoM58/s1600-h/93.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="9" border="0" alt="9" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4TwtGriFWJc/TgLYON3btbI/AAAAAAAAKdc/yyDGyWlQY5U/9_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="271"></a> This typical Flemish course as a starter.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-168U95h62j0/TgLYOu_QBII/AAAAAAAAKdg/cYWiIoS_Hpw/s1600-h/103.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="10" border="0" alt="10" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ZET16CDRY0Q/TgLYPUvugzI/AAAAAAAAKdk/sAuE6R65tnU/10_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="267"></a>Typical Belgian main course.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-RdYK80uJI2o/TgLYPh1qHoI/AAAAAAAAKdo/G8Tna6WlqSg/s1600-h/143.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="14" border="0" alt="14" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1kwJX7IacBw/TgLYQOec4SI/AAAAAAAAKds/_FQ9ENzCySA/14_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="400" height="299"></a> An Italian dessert.</p> <p align="center">I will till you more about the lunch in a next post!! It has to be a surprise for Brooke and her family!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">We are so excited to meet the Giannetti family! I do hope that they will have a safe trip to Europe!</p> <p align="center">And I will tell you more about our meeting next week!</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5C7r4-REnfc/TgLYQqfUqaI/AAAAAAAAKdw/acbaKxslFlw/s1600-h/254.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="25" border="0" alt="25" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-WxV8o6FUQTI/TgLYReDMifI/AAAAAAAAKd0/TlsUfZckORI/25_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="450" height="600"></a> </p> <p align="center"> <strong>TO BE CONTINUED…</strong></p> <p align="center">I wish everyone a wonderful weekend!</p> <p align="center">xx</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CLUdJKSlQAg/TgLYRu-sbpI/AAAAAAAAKd4/qxMkEPaf3I4/s1600-h/Signature2.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Signature" border="0" alt="Signature" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-KVDUZAhcN4Q/TgLYR7l1B9I/AAAAAAAAKd8/SQjxYLhEkhg/Signature_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="76" height="45"></a></p> narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-8322023680356598752011-06-22T21:51:00.000-07:002011-07-01T10:13:17.336-07:00Exciting News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0fiYmgTq6sRDhsbq7haOFVo-hCNoK14WIdMX_WVYOVVhYcjdGH7IyMWxlqBzJbIn84d3AuHk9_rtKUU7bX0AZC_hzKxByK13keq0buFDJ2DAtHfWBJmgvleYrZ2godFd1vdgjQ-v9OEc/s1600/Absolutely+Beautiful+Things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="432" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0fiYmgTq6sRDhsbq7haOFVo-hCNoK14WIdMX_WVYOVVhYcjdGH7IyMWxlqBzJbIn84d3AuHk9_rtKUU7bX0AZC_hzKxByK13keq0buFDJ2DAtHfWBJmgvleYrZ2godFd1vdgjQ-v9OEc/s640/Absolutely+Beautiful+Things.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>I am delighted to share some very exciting news with you all. It has been a long time coming but I am always of the opinion that it takes lots of time, lots of thought and lots of planning to do something properly. So here goes....</i></div><br /><i>At the end of July/beginning of August 2011 {just over 1 month away} we will be launching our very exciting online store which will be called - Anna Spiro's Absolutely Beautiful Things. Because I always like to be different, it won't be like a normal online store. It is a unique concept which I have had in my mind for over 2 years and now it is finally going to come to fruition.</i><br /><br /><i>I will be keeping you all updated over the next few weeks as to when it will actually go live. All I can say at this point is that once we go live you will have to be quick as the early bird catches the worm!!</i><br /><br /><i>Exciting times ahead.</i><br /><br /><i>The site address is - </i><a href="http://www.absolutelybeautifulthings.com.au/"><i>www.absolutelybeautifulthings.com.au</i></a><i> </i><br /><br /><i>xoxo<br />Anna</i><br /><br /><em>PS. There will definitely be some 'Signature Spiro' things available to purchase like our beautiful pink cockatoo lamps which are made in the pink exclusively for us!!</em><br /><br /><em>Stay tuned....</em>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537567681251900663.post-32894054607957246722011-06-21T19:55:00.000-07:002011-07-01T10:13:17.337-07:00Fresh Tulips Fresh Window<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfziPhXbh8iJh6UwriKULys3vP0IGvzIyPXD3FsVF_lOD728LxvdpKD5-pP_fizOHSQsN8SC1-NrhNqHtfoZxpD78a09mgOHXvMhwSKqqCdeTMHASo-0h3yRvmAECzitdmHLuMGL0Femw/s1600/black+%2526+spiro+-+june+2011-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfziPhXbh8iJh6UwriKULys3vP0IGvzIyPXD3FsVF_lOD728LxvdpKD5-pP_fizOHSQsN8SC1-NrhNqHtfoZxpD78a09mgOHXvMhwSKqqCdeTMHASo-0h3yRvmAECzitdmHLuMGL0Femw/s640/black+%2526+spiro+-+june+2011-1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>It's always like a breath of fresh air when we install a new window display at Black & Spiro. To celebrate our new window I bought some pretty fresh tulips which we have placed into one of a pair of blue and white vases we have on the table with a beautiful pair of lamps. Good old Chiang Mai in blue and white makes a big appearance in the background. I will try to post a picture from the outside of the shop too as the antique table which you can't really see in this photo is absolutely divine!!</i></div>narutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15877561950749989275noreply@blogger.com