May 30, 2013

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

May 23, 2013

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.

May 10, 2013

Casual Grace And Published

All Photos Burlap Luxe Home

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