White Frenchness and Brocante Lighting

"Burlap Luxe Home"

My new old thrift find; I am enamored with this find.

For centuries France has produced, safe to say the best lighting but, along with that is their pricey tags.

You can often find reproductions and antiques that hold great tag sales as well as, estate sales and antique dealers but, when a great old reproduction comes along you might have to upstyle its dated look as I did here.

GoodWill find $7.00 in a garishly dated 1970's Lime Green &Yellow paint finish. It had the right shape and a surprise to being wood it allowed me to strip it down and add a chippy wash of white to it.

Having the right subtle and harmonious colour adds to the atmosphere of any rustic

French home.

I am pleased with the paint treatment I gave it, the little splits in the wood add the right kind of rightness to its age.

I never undervalue lighting when a piece can pull off that rustic French role

it will play in a room.

Inspiring white Frenchness with a hint of lavender.

Français et Rustique

Burlap Luxe Home

Clippings from my shrubs offer a calm placed in a French floral can filled with

chalky white and grey patina. 

Peacefully old and pure

Tarnished up against white

Gentle and relaxed

New To My Etsy Shop...

French Address Numbers

Les numéros d'adresse français

I have become the keeper of treasured finds and share the extras. Inspired by vintage galvanized zinc I created French address numbers some time ago on these steal plaques that have taken on a soulfully aged grey patina. I could not leave well enough alone and have now added my zinc numbers to salvaged vintage mahogany creating a harmonious mix of recreating old world French.

             The zinc plate is not screwed to the wood base but, nailed with vintage in style,

zinc nail heads.

Inspired to recreate French European house address numbers on vintage zinc galvanized steel plaques added to vintage reclaimed mahogany wood 7"x 6" They have aged zinc nails filling in the holes on all four corners that couldn't have been more perfect for what they were to become. A tinted worn black paint finish made for painting on the surfaces of galvanized metal by (Val-Spar) and a matte hand rubbed sealer for heirloom quality. I became enamored with the charm of their outcome!

              There is enormous charm in decorating with French house numbers,

adding romance and European flea market country living to your collected style.

www.etsy.com/shop/BurlapLuxe

Inspiring French address numbers ready to hang. Found in my peaceful etsy!



Pieces I Wake To

Burlap Luxe Home Kitchen

Pieces I wake-up to fill my home with patina. Rose cuttings will just lie freely.

Flowers in the home do not always have to share a vase of water, yet ones that lie

add gatherings that inspire.

A beautiful old galvanized funnel

Tucked away wire baskets and buckets of galvanize.

Good and Pure

A French spot in my front room whispers to me daily with the light of day.

Touches of old add grace and beauty to each room.

Cages imagine a song from the wild.

A friend knew the top of a garden stake would charm when she gifted this piece to me. Patina filled chair with garden French fare.

bisous

xx

Doré

Pieces That Speak To Me

Burlap Luxe, Home living room

Inspiring darker shades of white.

The chest was a dark piece that beckoned to be finished in a darker shade of white.

I stripped off its darkness to paint a new future for it. The sideboard chest was a local thrift find for twenty two dollars, I knew I had a treasured find.

Maker; Century furniture.

It's now a soothing piece that adds soul to my gathered and collected home.

Thank you Kim, White Whispers To You for the beautiful gifting of the French paperback books that rest on my chest of greyness.

An Ethan Allen, French chair was given to me from a developer that I design his model homes. His wife, a friend, no longer liked it, nor the pink and blue fabric. I stripped it down and painted it in shades that blended to then upholster it in natural linen. Take notice of the arm where arm pads would have been, I loved the contour of its naked~arm and decided to leave it as is nail holes and all.

Thanking my dear friend Kim Kelly, from Bella Rustica who shares my passion for linen. Kim gifted me some of her beautiful textiles where I have been sewing up tattered linen dinning napkins. Nothing says relaxed dinning like tattered French linens.

Adding beauty to pieces that speak to me, nothing is meant to be perfect but, it is.

Casual Grace And Published

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Holding onto the casual grace with pieces that inspire a home.

I find grace and beauty in pieces that hold little value standing alone...

Yet when grouped together the rustic soul of each piece tell's a story poetically.

An awkward little shippers box hold's savoring of small brocante tin and tarnished silver.

"Not quite valued, but not quite worthless."

Adding French Country Soul.

I have been published

To my surprise I received an email from the Assistant Senior Managing Editor

Jennifer Jackson Taylor, of Artful Blogging Magazine

BANNERS we love.

Summer issue 2013

May/June/July

Long before I blogged I was enamored with this magazine that read like a book.

The talented bloggers that were featured drew you in hanging onto every inspiring word they wrote as well as the photos of their hobbies, talents in designs, the adventures taken that brought them to this beautiful place of artfully blogging it all left me feeling as if I could relate. Never would I have imagined that someday I would be blogging my many thoughts on designs, flea market finds and my passion for making time to create in an artful way.

Thank you Artful Blogging Editor Jennifer Jackson Taylor, If you have never visited her blog then do so, you will be charmed with her artful blog at....

                                            http://www.jennifertaylorart.com/  

                                    Thank you Jennifer, for taking notice of me!

By publishing my Burlap Luxe... Banners we love.

bisous

xx

Doré Callaway

Living With Patinée Frenchness

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Quietly listening to the French language of this room.

There's a French word that describes this room:

doux. It means gentle. Living with French country cottage rustic there can be

enormous charm in a small sleepy cottage awaken with French in pale design.

I stripped off the old paint from a dark French vanilla khaki in colour to then repaint and
distress my iron bed in white with aged grey, giving it a naturally aged rural rustic look.

A French country bed is likely to be metal or wood, plain or embellished.

Unlikely to be dark-stained and polished, rather it would be aged with a wash of age or painted-pale than dark and brooding.

What goes on a French bed is equally important. Real linen-may be new or old; embroidered is a joy to find and usually white and sometimes blue will intrude with a thin stripe or two of blue. Never a field of flowery floral’s adorns a French bed. White linen sheets and quilts are the more commonly used choice in France. A single piece of linen fabric quilted or a patchwork taken from indienne or toile designs.

Mirrors are used everywhere in a French country home reflecting light by adding elegance to rural rustic beauty.

Oak rods washed with a patina of grey slid into a hand forged eyelet bracket with a rustic charm of old, adding linen sheets puddling to the floor to finish the look and feel with understated country French splendor.

I like things distressed and a little patinée kiss to the hardware with Frenchness. 

Taking this French chest of drawers from its polished dark stain to a darker shade of white completed an old French look. French room's are not all about colour, but very much so as to a lack of colour giving this piece a voice placed at the foot of the bed.

A rustic side table

Relaxing in French country comfort tucked in linen,

a bowl of lemon cheesecake ice cream and...

Fifi O'Neill's new French Country Style magazine.

On your magazine stands now. Displayed until July 29 2013

Thank you Fifi for the beauty and grace you have added to a French life style with a très chic refind rustic take on French country style.

I am French charmed with this beautifully styled magazine and so will you.

Baisers françaises à vous Fifi

Inspiring all things French