French Nordic And Grey Spring

 Burlap Luxe Home

Natural nature, where a grey garden has spring in waiting.

 What is it about assorted shapes of glass that welcomes the beauty of spring.

 Awaiting the tight buds awakenings.

 Optimism, " If you have a garden filled with birds, 

You have everything."

 "On a quiet day, I hear them sing sounds of spring."

~Dore

I never doubt the thoughtfulness of spring.

 Nature never disappoints.

 Old French

Rustic~Living, inside and out.

Mixing vintage and nature; rich, neutral woods embrace French country

living.

Nordic French Noel

Burlap Luxe Adorned

Beautiful winter in the spirit of the season.
Stickly bare tree with a quirky French ornament tag. Little Afghan pine trees fill our
rural rustic home suited perfectly.

These sweet peaceful trees give off a wintery glow to a Norwegian cottage but,
inspired here by all its French designs.

Nothing adorns the tree but, a single torn French book page as an
ornament tag reminding us of a simple winters solstice; rooted deep
in the gentleness of the reason.

I like the feeling of a simple celebration of "Goodwill" in the peaceful heart
of our home.

A vintage Noel adorns a French garden antique planter box with
pine trees under a lighted window. It adds a cozy feeling to the kitchen by adding
something rustic, and beautiful.

A Merry weathered holiday in all its rustic charm.

Tis the time of
GOODWILL
and red boots.

Salvaging Time With Creating It

Burlap Luxe Home... 2014

Burlap Luxe is bringing in the New Year, and leaving the Old Year lost to all.

Time brings all things to pass, a minute in time.

I am altering time, creating with salvage parts from old clock boxes
where I take the old and create.

It is a beautiful reminder in stopping time.

How time flies, 2013-2014



Packing up last year, and making room for this year.
Inspiring a guest to every heart's desire in all its newness.

A Curious Christmas

Source, Burlap Luxe... click on photos to enlarge.

Hands that create Christmas, and you can visit Dore's Burlap Luxe etsy shop for new holiday arrivals as well as Trinidad at Atelier de Campagne Antiques for the new Christmas book by Nina Hartmann. Are you not curious in what exciting hoilday photos of inspiration are in Nina's new book, just look at the cover.

Vintage by Nina

Christmas in October 2012
After the success with the book Vintage by Nina, sold in three runs and three different languages, Nina Hartmann and Maria-Isabel Hansson now publish the sequel.
Once again the readers are invited to a guided journey into the universe of the interior stylist and antique dealer Nina Hartmann. Her shop filled with beautiful, odd, charming and unique treasures found in flea markets around the world. The book is filled with decorated trees, candles, flowers, hearts, angels, santas sweets, table settings, sacred figurines and Christmas ornaments made of fabric, glass, paper, wax and tinsel.

This time Nina and the interior photographer Maria-Isabel Hansson also visit five unique vintage-homes in Denmark and Sweden beautifully decorated for Christmas. The book Vintage by Nina Christmas is a MUST HAVE All in the true spirit of Christmas. This is Nina Hartmann´s and Maria-Isabel Hansson´s second book with true, and time honored vintage as well as antiques.

Title: Vintage by Nina Christmas
Language: Danish and English
Pages: 200 pages
Dimensions: 254x215 mm
More than 300 colour photographs

Release date: October 2012
This book can be reserved, and purchased at our good friends at...Here
Atelier de Campagne Antiques


"click on photos to enlarge details"

Chritsmas Stockings designed and hand sewn by Dore Callaway Burlap Luxe.
Hands that create holiday stories embrace things gathered and collected that need not be perfect, yet soulfully celebrates the outcome of getting back to basic's with gifting handmade, turning a holiday into a French-Nordic Noël, simple, and calm with a gentle spirit.

Stockings purchased in limited fabric's in my etsy shop here...Burlap Luxe

Mattelasse White: 26" in length 5" at widest point of cuff with zinc ring to hang them from.



Hannah's Nordic Grey: Holding the gift of holiday, pure and good by choosing vintage, handmade over new or mass produced.



Limited due to fabric, inspiring handmade with hands that create.

Living With... And Loving The Find

"Click on photos to enlarge detail"

Having a soulful hand in what we live with making it informal, cozy you don't have to worry about making it perfect. What inspires most about country living is the pieces and colour we surround ourselves with. My kind of country, rural French living and loving the find. French country has always been a influence across Europe soulfully living with pieces that encourage and influence a French country life. I never look at the surface of what it is, I find the hidden depth in the piece while taking and redefining its use reflecting a passion for all things aged with history.


I try not to be sentimental about a new find, "I've let go of many beautiful soulful pieces over the years in my interior design business and shop that's just the nature of this business. Sometimes there is just that one inspiring piece that pulls you in questioning that it just may have to live with you for awhile. This galvanized zinc drawer that made no sense to someone else, made all the sense in the world to me.

I love the find that adds to an atmosphere for lost pieces that get over looked in what it is, to what it can become. Most important arranging them as though someone lives among them, adding truly a beauty to its life.

If a zinc galvanized drawer or crusty wire baskets and buckets inspire you then let it find its way into your home decor. I was inspired by this drawer and instantly knew it had to come home with me using it with a whole new function holding useful objects of interest reflecting the passion of its owner giving it a gathered and collected European flea market feel seeing the full potential of the piece.


Flea Montreuil-Bellay they have my kind of French country.

Letting all things galvanize inspire what I love most.