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19th century antiques, Aqua silk, Blue silk, Flower crystal chandelier, French settee, Painted French desk, Pale Blue, Sothebys ceiling fixture, Vietri Sorbetto aqua
On a family trip to Italy years ago…I fell in love with the
most beautiful shade of blue on a piece of Vietri
pottery…took a piece to our local paint store to match it,
and painted, then glazed the dining room ceiling
several gradations of the blue to match my plates…
Vieti’s aqua Sorbetto charger…
preferred the size and wide, flat rim to use as dinner plates…
I grayed the paint a bit to make it less bright, used the same
color for the inside of the cream kitchen cabinets…
The subtle blue is beautiful when the sun reaches around the
top of the house and slants between the oak tree’s huge limbs
to infuse the dining room with afternoon light, or at night when
the crystal petaled flowers of the chandelier dance about
the ceiling…
A settee upholstered in Peau de soie (aka Duchess Satin)…
gorgeous, but delicate …the color beautiful with shades
of aquas and greens…though I now wish I had used
Belgian linen…
A little archaeological treasure from Sothebys… part of the
house when we bought it and graciously left for me by the previous
owner whose daughter worked there. It presides over my
inherited dressing room with it multi paneled closet doors…
Everyone that visits loves the allure of a dressing room…
the former owner merely seized a departing child’s
room and made it her own. I painted the bifold door’s
trim shades of blue and aqua, with random bits of gilt…
This is the hallway between the dressing room, master bedroom
and bath that I painted aqua. I do my own painting because
I change my mind so often..such a curse…
I’m waiting until the dead of winter to decide whether
I should paint the bedroom gray…
More beautiful shades of blue and aqua via
Carolyn Quartermaine…
Has a color ever entranced you to go, object in a hand,
to the local paint store for a match?
And a little 19th century painted treasure
sold at Artfact auctions…
Photographing my home reminds me of how
many projects I have left to do…