March 23, 2013

Nordic Grace

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New to Burlap Luxe homes peaceful etsy is our Nordic angel wings.
With design always a part of who we are as artists my daughter Hannah and I are gracefully addiing wings to our line of soulful handmade piece's created with salvage that adds to its beauty and grace.

"We are not human beings on a
spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings
on a human journey."

~Henry Miller

Built with salvaged woods and galvanized tins this angel wing shares its past
 with graceful beauty


Artfully encourages the pairing of rustic to refind.

"daughter Hannah's Dresser"
At my daughter Hannah's request...
one soon to be hanging on her bedroom wall next to the head of her bed.

She took the leap and built her wings on the way down.
(Celebrate her daring)

Angel wing
"Nordic-Grace"
Size 4 ft 10"
15"1/2 widest point
custom order sizes welcomed

You will find in my etsy



March 20, 2013

Another Purpose And Function

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Few things in beauty are discarded in our French brocante home. I am not bringing attention to the pale of our room, but the curtains, rods and brackets that were once used for another purpose and function until I opened my eyes to what I was looking at and what it could become.

Here you see a curtain rod that would be used as a closet pole to hang clothes from. I ordered them in oak from Home Depot and they will cut them for you to the length you need. I then washed them down with a damp rag filled with grey paint in a staining fashion to then add a top coat of white paint for a perfect patina that added a weathered look to them.

I deal with many contractors in the building and design trade and here is what next inspired my rod brackets. I salvaged an old steel fence post and had my iron fabrication guy cut the post into 3/4" inch rings to then weld a 2" rod post and weld it to a small face plate that I could then screw into the wall like an eyelet bracket giving my rods and brackets a rustic French feel to the room.

We all know what the purpose of painters canvases are used for and many of you have caught on to the trend of using them for so many projects. I washed the canvases and dried them, to then sew a rod pocket across the top and with a huge savings of not buying readymade curtains I had the look and feel this room needed to anchor its look.
I also added a couple of holes here and there to them before washing so when they were dry I would have that aged tattered rightness giving them an old rustic feel to them as if they were a great brocante textile find.

Like so many of you out there replacing chandeliers with pendant lighting I too have been crushing on them, but hating those huge retail marketed prices and in most cases lacking that true history of a great find in making one for so much less by using unique galvanized containers, olive bucket, wire baskets and just about any creative find. 

"Via Retail"
The rustic French-Nordic charm of a rustic pendant gets me all the time.

Seeeee where I am going with this and with another great find that had another function and purpose. 

My rustic find was a garden hanging pot aged with a patina to love.
$5.00 flea market find.

By turning it upside down I have found the perfect piece for my pendant light and off it will go to be wired for electric. I can't wait to share the outcome.

A piece of a tear down I salvage from the junk pile received a wash down and now it's a great piece of salvage when it lost its usefulness to now accessorizing my French cabinet with and object to admire.  


This French Hattian bird made from a salvage steel drum is now added to my etsy shop.

etsy Rustic Bird...Sold !
Inspiring pieces that had another purpose and function and what became of them.

March 03, 2013

Innocent Appeal To Its Placement With French Garden

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Spring is here with distressed grey and white.
An antique garden planter box is now cared for in my home as a piece of old artfully and soulfully placed under the kitchen window.

There is something so forgiving when life has not treated forgotten pieces well.
Designing with garden antiques is all about making them important, it's all about the blend of bringing them in from outside to inside a French country home easing them in making it a perfect fit of old.


A planter box left behind for me to find and it joyed my heart with its grace and beauty. It wore my heart down with its design and peeled aged of very little paint life to it with just enough white and grey washed over it as if it had plans of becoming garden driftwood.
Its small voice echoed, "Love me" and I did.

A yummy magazine that is more like a book, Jeanne d' Arc inspires the beauty of European homes with brocante designs, gracious and authentic. 

This planter box filled with innocent appeal to its placement was as if a decorator wasn't the least bit involved. 

A beautiful fragment we tore away from the bottom side of a vintage garden patio lantern and when set right-side up it became a beautiful crown on top of my vintage poetry books naked of their covers.

Thank you David of The Garden Shed & Co. for adding this brocante beauty to my inspiration 


A lantern crown that inspires garden out-doors lighting now lights up and inspires my kitchen desk. My corner muses inspirational ideas.


Thank you Stephanie of IL. for making a purchase of my two Théâtres lyriques français (French opera theatre's) built by Doré (me) from all things French and vintage from my Burlap Luxe etsy shop.

Congratulations to becoming a first time grandma, she will love that you have added a theatre of performance to her nursery where she will grow up performing song and dance.

Soon to arrive to my Burlap Luxe etsy more of my French theatres built and crafted by
Doré Callaway (Me)
Inspiring a passion for the art of all things French Opera.