Showing posts with label French Country. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Country. Show all posts

March 17, 2017

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. 

January 10, 2015

Each Piece Is A Find...And Nordic Knits

Burlap Luxe Home Living Rustic French

Each piece is a salvaged find. The latest being the vintage 10 window pane
door, and it has me thinking.
This setting is the backdrop to my entryway.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look
undesirable.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Authentic history hides behind the truth, in creating what one believes to be beautiful.
~ Dore Callaway

My New Knit Line Hand Made by Dore Callaway, BurlapLuxe.
Soon in my etsy shop I will be adding my knits.
This Lumbar knit with a feather down insert is
28" x 14" 1/2
and ties with knit at its opening.
"Nordic Knits" and "Prairie Knits"
by hand
I have been creating with wools since the age of 8 where my
Nordic grandmother on my moms side sat with me late nights
teaching me how to hold the needles, and hooks.

Its been so inspiring to me to see the strong come-back in knit home decor,
and the Nordic French strong influence and character the knits add
to a rural rustic home.

Inspiring a natural home.

June 02, 2014

Little Area's Of Usefulness

Burlap Luxe Home Designs

Much of what has been handed down takes over this space.
(office)

When I aquire a piece from a market place be it a flea market, thrift shop or tag sale I
alway's think of them as pieces handed down with my instant connection to them;
as if the piece has always belonged.


I adore creating little areas of usefulness, along with dried aged flowers they
add that Frenchness as favored in faded toile French textiles.

A small find at my local thrift shop was part of this lighting attached to a hanging tiffany swag light.
I took the lamp and glass shade apart and with pieces left over from other lamps I was able to create
and marriage pieces to create this chandelier in the works. I paid $5.00 for the chandelier, and spare
parts I had on hand. I am excited to wire it and get it hung; embellishing it with something different,
and creative.




A draped French textile piece are much in evidence in French rural interiors.
No piece to small or of insignificant to be used somewhere.

Little Area's of usefulness.

November 19, 2013

French Kitchen and Hand-Made Wire Crowns

Photos Taken by Dore BurlapLuxe

Burlap Luxe French country kitchen where creating is known to take place.
The holidays here in our home entertain rustic French style where the pleasures of
the table will be set in rural French elegance.

The French bread-boards will be put to use.


I imagine my surroundings to be exactly what I need it to be; layers of white neutrals
that feeds my rustic soul.


I have been busy creating with my love for wire and gathered
vintage ephemera book words.

I let my free spirit imagine what I will create with salvaged wires and
a vision for what it wants to become.
Seeing is half the beauty of the end results.

I create little wire charms backed with a papering of paper mache, then
dressed with a word of meaning. On the other side of Royal the word
Queen appears.

Adding then a finish with a technique artist created where layers of old
crustiness covers it rustically; where the stained washed of whites
take on the right kind of rightness, this is when I know the piece
is completed.

You will find them listed in my etsy shop.
Along with custom orders.

Tattered and aged golden silk will embellish as well.
They are 4" 1/2 round and 2" in height
with little gem like stones on the tips aged as if time got the best of them.

www.etsy.com/shop/BurlapLuxe

My Wire Crowns can be used on your holiday tree as a tree topper or
as a meaningful tree ornament.
A perfect holiday gifting of One-Of-A-Kinds
each one uniquely created by my hands.
~ Dore Callaway

Looking forward to sharing the holidays with all my blog friends and
the relationships that add grace and beauty to our lives.

September 16, 2013

French Country Living...Living Rural French


Burlap Luxe Home Photos Dore Callaway

Good influences surround me in my country kitchen where French style is inspired by
the French countryside.


Brocante pieces fill the cubbies in a piece that was meant to be.

I have often wanted to change out the dark farmhouse chairs yet the rural
style adds visual to the rooms soft patina.


Galvanize, zinc and pewter are part of the good that influenced the interior
style of no set of rules yet loving in the way objects are used.


French antique galvanized have been added to vintage mahogany wood with a
typography number painted to it adds a bit more French to the rooms decor.

They can be found in my etsy shop at

www.etsy.com/shop/BurlapLuxe

Also will be featured in Fifi O'Neill's new book Prairie Style Weddings due out
in spring 2014

What's important in a French country home is the way objects are used
and pieces are arranged.




A piece that was meant to be is everything you feel from it.


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