French salon decor

Lately I have turned into the biggest vintage junky! You should see our condo - the walls are growing due to all the stuff I have collected for our new home. My husband struggles, he doesn't have a clue where anything is going - he thinks I'm buying just to buy! I keep reminding him we have done this before, every time we have sold a home the furniture went with it. I keep close track of every object and I know exactly where each piece is going. When I design a home I do it with the…

Discover the correct height to hang art and enhance your home decor. Learn expert tips on the ideal height for hanging artwork, pictures, and frames at the perfect eye level in various spaces. Find out how to position art for a visually appealing display.

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I have a great fondness for the linen and burlap upholstered French sofas and canapes that are associated with the simplistic "French Country" style of current decorating tastes. However, this blog post spotlights the style of upholstering these lovely French seats in tapestry. As building architecture improved, the need of using wall tapestries for essential warmth wasn't as necessary. Tapestry manufacturers now turned their attention to the production of tapestry material for upholstering…

When Flore de Brantes isn’t running her influential Brussels gallery, she and her family unwind at her ancestral home in France's Loire Valley

The gorgeous French Cabriole/Cabriolet sofa was popularized by Louis XV in the first half of the 1700's. Cabriolet (where our term cab comes from) is a term that was used to describe a carriage or a cab in the eighteenth century and this sofa mimics the carriage's seat that had a curved exposed wood back which swept into arms in one seamless line. They also stood proudly on sinuous curvy legs called cabriole legs. This style of sofa looks marvelous in a French Provincial, French Chateau, or…

If your Parisian apartment doesn’t have a fireplace, you should move, stupid. Sorry, but I’m a little grumpy today. All of my caregivers...