Thursday, June 30, 2011

Contemplating Green








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. 

Look at Tory {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?

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...

image 1 - via frolic, image 2 - via peak of chic, image 3 - anna spiro

Painted panelling and bookcases

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!

Today I have chosen to post some pictures of painted panelling and bookcases of earlier projects.

The pictures are all of the portfolio of our company LEFEVRE INTERIORS.

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Talk to you soon!

Love for Belgian Linen

Last week I had an appointment with the representative of LIBECO, 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.

I am always surprised about all these beautiful, different textures and range of colors ! I just love the natural touch of our Belgian linen.

Since Axel Vervoordt introduced us to the linen slipcovers for seats and chairs, a lot of designers started to work with linen.

In Belgian interiors you will see linen used for draperies and blinds, for seating upholstery, table, bed and bath linen.

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.

But if you want to know more about the flax’ history you will find a lot to read at the LIBECO website HERE.

Diane Dorrans Seaks of the Style Saloniste blog wrote a very interesting blogpost about Belgian linen HERE ! It is a most interesting article to read!

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Click on LIBECO logo to visit the website.

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Growing up in the Belgian area, known for the linen industry, will definitely explain my love for linen.

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Our orangery where I used linen for the draperies and the slipcovered seats.

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Our living room with linen upholstered seats.

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I really love the combination of natural materials as here in our library, a combination of an oak woodpaneling and a linen upholstered seat.

There is a wide range of colors and textures available in linen fabrics.

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!!!

So, linen can be used for all your window treatment.

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Just love the color of the draperies matching the oak parquetry floor. Beautiful!

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Linen blinds.

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Seat and chair upholstery.

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Window treatment with linen and velvet chair upholstery and table cloth. A perfect combination at this living room.

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Table linen.

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Here you see a sample card of the Libeco Napoli Vintage linen. Beautiful texture and colors for your table linen.

38 Linen sample card LIBECO

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One of my favorite colors is celadon. Libeco offers a lot of shades of celadon linen. The Garnier’s sofa with a celadon slipcover.

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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.

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Linen slipcovers for chairs.

I love the mix of these kitchen chairs at the castle of Axel Vervoordt.

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Again a sample card of beautiful ‘ready made’ Libeco table linen

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A linen skirt for this desk.

Bedlinen.

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This is the sample card of the bedlinen of the picture here above.

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Linen wear

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Libeco linen wear sample card.

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And maybe you will find your perfect Christmas present, as this embroidered napkin, browsing through the LIBECO HOME catalogue.

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To browse through the LIBECO Home Catalogue, click on cover.

Catalogue

And finally I want to introduce you to a very beautiful blog about linen, ‘LINENS by didriks, where you will find a lot of interesting information about Belgian linen!

I hope you enjoyed my post of today!