A French Bedroom...Simplicity In Rustic Elegance

 Burlap Luxe Living

In French style.

A country bedroom should feel airy with open space.

Giving this small French style bedroom a paleness

of touch.

A French bedroom is always distinctive of its simplicity.

An important piece in a French bedroom is the bed, never

allowing it to take over the room.

 

The French mirror plays a role in opening up the size

of the rooms small space. 

Placed over a favorite chest of drawers to reflect the

bed and the accented decorative pieces.

 

Mirrors are used in every room reflecting the light into 

its space adding an open airy feel to a room. 

In the case with my smaller room.

  

vintage Sawhorse 

I turned an old carpenters sawhorse into

a bedside table by adding a planked surface and 

trimming if off for rustic rural country feel.  

The French use of pieces once used with another

 function are often never discarded in a French

home.

When and item loses its usefulness,

its again admired as decorative.

Inspiring

 Spaces. 

Innocent In French Style

Burlap Luxe Home Designs

The French often design as they go-nor do they ever consider a room finished.
A small space I take rest in knowing its imaginatively designed for
its small space. And it all looks effortless, as if it has its small space under control.

A chandelier will soon be added to the comfort of this French sleeping room.
I never look for pieces to fill a space, I wait for the piece to find me with
an emotional attachment to its, French flea market charm.

Column serves as a night-table adding a sense of innocent in
country French.
An antique pitcher filled with fresh clippings embraces a room that
feels put together.

Piles of misplaced pillows add to a relaxed luxe.

Cotton quilts, mattelasse, and linen, a favorite in a gathered rustic
French room of rest.

1. Mattelasse european imported fabric by Taylor Scott
2. Lauren, by Ralph Lauren european sham natural linen stripe
3.French linen lumbar pillow sham sewn by Dore Burlap Luxe

In a French bed-room linen drapes or curtain panels are generously flounced.

Sharply defined cypress trees painted in oils add richly in its shapely aged
gold frame. A favorite surprise in a room of aged whites.

A tattered cotten hem adds to the feeling of less care, rustic in every way. Yet softens the
harder edges of bold iron feet and scalloped footboard.

A casual distressing in French rural cottage style.
Thank you for visiting my small cottage bedroom.

xx
bisous
Dore

It Had-Another Life

"click on photos to enlarge details"
Hand painted and aged with a feel of history to it, signed by myself Dore Callaway 2/2011 Stripped down in the raw, painting than with a soulful brush.

As an artist with a French gypsy brocante style I will paint on almost anything. My favorite works of art seem to create themselves on objects when an item loses its usefulness, it can than be admired for its decorative piece. I love when a piece has acquired age, making it a perfect broncante piece "not quite valued, not quite junk." I invite a piece of brocante into my hands ones that are less than perfect, showing a history of its travels, it than stops it journey once it reaches me. With a paint brush in my bite, and one in my hand I begin my work, remembering to never paint for someone else, but for myself giving it a lightness of touch.


Imagining this piece in a French Boulangerie (BAKERY SHOP) while fashioning decadent creations. Could you see this antique foot board restyled from a beautiful full size bed, and now romancing a life given back to it as a featured piece over a counter of service where beautiful cupcakes, French cheesecakes, macaroons, beautifully displayed truffles, and wedding cakes are created. A fine BAKERY SHOP where only the finest touch your taste buds, Oh my, I have talked myself into it, I think I will open my own bakery, only the best for everyone who enters. They will be greeted with a style that's fashioned with love in mind for all things romantic.


The art of French living fulfills so many different roles in an understated and elegant way, adding pieces to a space that is also an integral important part of the home. The soul and spirit of this antique foot board gives a home its individuality knowing it was first made with another function in its design. Manteling a piece like this over a white fireplace adds artful drama to the staging of French farmhouse in euro chic cottage style, while endulging "Les Details" of your own homes style.


An unlikely cast off foot board turned into a French entry wall panel ready to hang... "Adding style and grace that carries your heart." yours in my etsy!!