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

The Gravity Of White Pulls Me In

Burlap Luxe Home

Where an artisan designs around natural materials.

A rare bit of colour blends in seamlessly with the use of pale stripes.
( Ralph Lauren Linen )
Adding to my French country home of bleached linens.

Does this antique brass lamp count as colour?
It was a great find at my local thrift shop. I studied it and looked it over charmed
by it's shape, but best was its rich patina of age and the way I knew it would anchor
my room with a beautiful rustic effect.
Can you believe I paid $9.00 for it!

I love how tall it is...
34" 1/2 in height

I gently cleaned it carfully to not disturb the patina that almost looks like
aged copper that takes on that rich zinc patina.
I am not a big fan of brass, but this lamp was like none-other, and
oh so intriguing enough to count as a bit of colour with ease and rural rustic elegance.

I also happened to have loved the off and on switch on the base, tugging at my
heart with memories of my grandparents prairie farmhouse being filled with lamps
with these kind of switches; funny that would mean something to me.

A lamp with a base switch added memories and comfort to my home.

Another great find was 3 of these.
( Yard sale $5.00 for all 3)
I could not resist bringing one inside and one out on the porch and the
3rd one to a dear friend.

Made of cement, and used on block wall columns decoratively topping them off.
I love it sitting on the floor in my sitting room

I have been busy creating new pieces for my etsy shop.
Peaceful birds, artist created unique in as much as not being a mass market pattern or
product, yet created with my signature style.

They hang gently on the wall from a wire hook, aged with grey and vintage
ephemera book words with a poetic message.

The French queen of her garden carries her crown in flight.
( Wire crown created by me )

New to my etsy is my wire art pieces,
( Crowns )
I have been busy bending and twisting at request of when I will be creating more?
More to come to my etsy.

Aged and decayed with a crusty coating, and a patina of tarnished grey and touches of gold.

After a long May of creating I took and made some time to return to painting.
I did not realize how I missed it so until the first stroke of paint hit the square piece
of paneling board.

A work in progress, and will share it when it is framed.

Shown with light on it so you can see the aging of gold added.

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
~Pablo Picasso

Good And Pure Prairie

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Good and Pure Prairie Style.

When imagining a prairie life one might invision dusty lands with tumbling tumbleweeds.
"weathered homes buried under layers of milk paint, and sagging stained of tea
colored wallpapers."
Farmhouses that have barely been touched in what seemed like decades of
authentic history.

fifi O'Neill
The Romance Of The Prairie Is Back.

Prairie Style Magazine, May 2014
Has returned with the unspoiled charm of living in Prairie Style.

The most appealing approach to this magazine is it's many homes original to their natural
rustic textures.
Prairie Style Magazine is unveiling it's raw beauty of what's new in prairie style living.
144 pages of beauty photographed stories and 9 fabulous homes
coast to coast and Canada.

Pre-order a single issue or bulk.
(Bulk orders are 10 copies or more at $4.99 each rather than
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Watch for your copy at your local retailing book stores magazine racks
and retailing magazine stands.

Table of contents
"Places In The Heart" Stories

"Modern Pioneers" Section

"Special events and DIY"

9 Homes Featured...
Sure to inspire.

Let's take a country walk with
fifi O'Neill
editor.author.stylist

In supporting May's 2014 issue in the return of...
PRAIRIE STYLE magazine.

xox
Thank you fifi darling,
so excited.