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

A Gatherer Of Words

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"Words form the thread on

which we string our experiences."

Inspired by words and experiences.

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 Simple beauty, "making something out of nothing"

I have collected odd and shapely dicarded salt & pepper shakers filling them with soul. 

While you may have an affinity for rosebuds and fresh picked flowers, note that there is beauty all around us. A simple wild garden weed growing with little life left in it will add passion, purpose, and creative living. These stems of weedy wildflowers gathered up from the weed filled garden beds of discarded cuttings adds special life to its beauty.  

"When one tuggs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached

to the rest of the world."

John Muir

Pieces of old and salvage share its past with a graceful blend.

A garden post French in style made it easy to achieve my

 found objects desired effect.