As promised, amongst this transportation service I conduct maintain shown several rooms from my home. We conduct maintain both been overwhelmed at the answer in addition to issue of visits. Nearly 4,000 of you lot conduct maintain been sort plenty to come upwardly each fourth dimension a room is added to the tour. Thank you lot for visiting!!!!!
Our sitting/family room is the concluding on the tour. No pictures allowed of Tim's ii room homo cave upwardly stairs. I honey it but am non successful at talking him into it. For this room nosotros wanted an Old World French/English feel.......pretty but leaning towards the masculine. When Zach comes to see I am a chip outnumbered. Actually it's my gustatory modality too. As I conduct maintain said before, I similar Versailles improve when it was a hunting lodge in addition to non thence fru fru.
Anyway hither it is, hope you lot enjoy. Again I apologize for my photography in addition to lighting problems. You tin larn to all the other rooms through links at the bottom of this transportation service if you lot want to see them.
Lisa Farmer-
This room that nosotros role equally a identify unit of measurement surface area was originally the dining room of this sometime house. Since it is towards the dorsum of the house, where in that location is to a greater extent than privacy, nosotros role it equally a sitting room in addition to I moved the dining room to the front, across the hall from the living room. The wall color is a unclean aqua in addition to is genuinely truer here, but without the flash the motion prototype is likewise dark....so the walls expect a chip greener inwards most of the pictures.
Lisa Farmer-
A chip brighter! The room is perfect for a chip of TV, reading, or when Zach is hither it gets turned into a game room. We are large boardgamers. Not the sometime Sorry or Monopoly games, but the newer Euro board games that conduct maintain adventures in addition to mysteries that tin conduct maintain 3 to 4 hours to solve.
The left side of the room is pretty much dominated yesteryear the antique oak Welsh closet in addition to the tapestry (which for roughly argue looks brownish inwards this motion prototype but is genuinely green). The oak washstand is a identify unit of measurement slice that I know has been painted in addition to stripped ii dissimilar times during my lifetime. Painting article of furniture is sure enough non a novel trend. Next to it is an sometime demi john inwards it's original wooden crate.
The Welsh closet sits on a base of operations amongst a carved scalloped apron in addition to cabriole legs. I honey the Medieval experience of the closet amongst it's Gothic doors in addition to bully carving at the top. See how dark-green the tapestry is......that is what it genuinely looks like.
My Staffordshire collection. I only started collecting this summertime in addition to am falling inwards honey amongst these wonderful pieces of English linguistic communication pottery. Will shortly last publishing a spider web log transportation service nigh them in addition to their history. But hither is a chip of info. While the men tended to the higher terminate pottery in addition to porcelain, unskilled women in addition to children painted the Staffordshire figurines. That is why they conduct maintain that naive folk fine art charm to them.
Lisa Farmer-
Looking from the sitting room into the dorsum hall.
You tin meet this on the closet inwards a higher identify in addition to I want you lot could meet inwards person. I honey unique in addition to interesting things in addition to this is a large souvenir majority from Fountinbleu circa 1900. It is sage dark-green amongst gilded lettering that genuinely doesn't present upwardly well. I also conduct maintain the smaller ruby i you lot meet from Malmasion, in addition to i inwards my constituent from Versailles in addition to the Trianons.
It is 12 X nine in addition to has roughly beautiful drawings of the interior in addition to exterior. There are twenty-five inwards all on difficult postcard similar stock. Very detailed in addition to all written inwards French.
Lisa Farmer-
The beautiful candelabras amongst rose marble in addition to onyx bases came to me from a friend inwards France.
Lisa Farmer-
This tapestry is all inwards needlepoint amongst the figures existence done inwards petite point. For roughly argue their colorful costumes inwards muted pinks, blues, in addition to yellows don't come upwardly through. I took the pictures inwards every low-cal in addition to on every manner I could but withal no luck.
Lisa Farmer-
I honey stone oil paintings of landscapes, peculiarly ones involving castles. Also, the antique needlepoint tapestry over the drape contains a castle in addition to came from an estate auction. You'll meet close-ups afterwards thence you lot tin meet the colors better. This is the exclusively room that didn't conduct maintain a fireplace in addition to yet is the coolest room inwards the solid thence I bought the mistaken i amongst infinite heater to warm things upwardly a bit.
Some of the castle paintings.
My favorite is the i at night.
Lisa Farmer-
I institute a laid upwardly of these antique damask covered French chairs in addition to planned to role them inwards here. It's a chip likewise crowded amongst ii thence the other sits inwards my bedroom. There is a bath through that door but is long in addition to narrow in addition to difficult to photograph.
Lisa Farmer-
This was an antique wardrobe I institute this summertime on Craigslist. It was twice equally deep in addition to had mirrors inwards the front. I needed a bookcase (actually demand ii more) thence I had this cutting inwards two, shelves made from the excess, in addition to nosotros installed the glass. I am real pleased amongst the result.
This large mitt embroidered slice on overstep of the bookcase is i of my favorite treasures. I collect antique heraldry in addition to handmade textiles in addition to was delighted when I institute this at an auction.
Lisa Farmer -
You tin meet the stitches improve inwards this image.
The bookcase is for storing my antique books. My other reading books are inwards drawers all over the house, that's why a demand roughly other example for them. I conduct maintain collected books for years but non until this yr conduct maintain I started concentrating on French books.
I had to portion these in addition to the 3 on the left below that I institute at a Goodwill for $25.00......all from the 1800's in addition to all inwards French. Needless to say I was thrilled!
Lisa Farmer-
Lisa Farmer-
I also wanted you lot to meet this fiddling regal French prayer majority amongst brass edging in addition to plate amongst monogram.
Lisa Farmer-
This is an sometime desk I painted 3 years ago.
Lisa Farmer-
Next to it is an antique leather folding covert amongst stone oil paintings of flowers, swags, in addition to architectural elements that I institute at an estate auction.
Lisa Farmer-
You tin meet the prototype improve inwards this image. The sometime ruby painted breast was a yard sale find.
Lisa Farmer-
Lisa Farmer-
Lisa Farmer-
Close upwardly of the French clock. It is pastoral inwards pattern amongst a miss gathering wheat. Also the small-scale motion prototype beside it is needlepoint.
Lisa Farmer-Eye For Deign
Well, I jurist you lot conduct maintain to conduct maintain something modern.......but if I must, it has to sit down inwards front end of an sometime French tapestry. All the BIG amusement is upstairs inwards the Man Cave. Don't larn me wrong, I similar tech gadgets likewise in addition to patch I bask having Alexa playing music inwards every room.......I only don't desire to expect at her. I proceed all gadgets good hidden.
Lisa Farmer-
A couplet of views looking into the dining room
Lisa farmer-
Lisa Farmer-
There are ii wonderful pictures on the chip of wall equally you lot become into the dorsum hall. So lamentable for the bad lighting, I had to conduct maintain it.
Lisa Farmer-
I honey this antique stone oil prototype of a man child in addition to his mother. The impairment to his confront is hardly noticeable when in that location is no flash.
Lisa Farmer-
Also this sometime etching of a Renaissance interior is thence lovely in addition to detailed.
And of course of report it wouldn't last my solid without a feline...... or four. When these ii present upwardly inwards the eve the tapestry pillow gets moved in addition to they desire their blanket. They both came to us equally kittens....Chanel (on the right) get-go in addition to and then Buddy showed upwardly a calendar week later. We believe they are blood brother in addition to sister. They adore each other.
To see the Living Room click here
To see the Dining Room click here
https://maquiavelos.blogspot.com/2017/09/my-french-style-dining-room.html
https://maquiavelos.blogspot.com/2017/09/my-french-style-dining-room.html
To see the Kitchen click here
To see the Master Bedroom in addition to my Office click here
Click hither to meet the previous post
This spider web log transportation service was published yesteryear Lisa Farmer