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Antique Dufour, antique wallpaper, Antique Zuber, Chinoiserie, classical study, Grisaille, Michael S. Smith, Saladino
My almost 18 year old son is attempting to finish up several
mini-autobiographies and short stories, and witty insightful paragraphs…
all for his last few college applications. So while I hover for moral support,
in between editing breaks, I’m contemplating the projects I’d love to
pull off this year. Due to a deep and abiding love for classicism, grisaille,
and the 18th century…I have a spot just waiting for a bit of antique
Zuber or Dufour panorama wallpaper. Which I can’t afford.
Drama offsetting a pert Chelsea checked seat back…
House and Garden archives
Plan B would be Holly Alderman‘s reproductions…incredible, much less expensive.
Luckily this would be a small, but focal wall in my husband’s study, so it would have
maximum impact…and self-servingly in direct view across the way from my office.
In a perfect world I’d use this desk…
Torn out and tacked to my bulletin board for several years…
Love how it floats in the middle of the room..
Round and curvy in all the right places…
Subtly etched Chinoiserie
John Hall Designs table
Antique Zuber wallpaper screen in Saladino’s study in Villa
Click here for earlier “Desk Set” post
Might find a home for this little round mirror…
Just ruminating, collecting my thoughts, starting my design resolution list…
After almost 18 years in our 1939 fixer upper, I love my house, with
all it’s failings, and to-do lists. To paraphrase: If you can’t be with the
home you love, love the home you’re with.
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Top photo: Michael S. Smith, Elle Decor Nov. ’08, Henry Bourne photography
Have you discovered (in)Decorous Taste yet? She is sassy and smart (a Vassar girl) who with her mother does decorative painting. They painted a scene on canvas that is amazing. What would Grisaille look like on canvas? I think you could easily do the Chinoiserie. Stencils with drywall compound/gesso?
At my house, I am gutting a small bathroom (mine) taking out the only tub. The room was past due for assistance and thought at 60 I should be looking at 70. It’s a little industrial and a whole lot Dorothy Draper. It’s just that libra thing going on! The best of the new year to you.
dear trish
i have so enjoyed your blog and i wish you the most blessed new year… x pam
Hi Trish- Well you just happened to end your post with name of my blog! It’s my mantra and what i’m always telling friends and clients who are chronically unhappy with their less than magazine perfect homes. Love, it, work it, own it. Clean it, change it, rearrange it. Honor it, care for it, adorn it. It’s your own little corner of the world – live your fantasy!
Happy New Year…. Robin
I have loved that desk, also. It would never fit, though, in my house. But in my imagination is another thing.
Best New Year.
Hello Trish,
I’ve just recently discovered your blog…pure beauty. :0)
I so enjoy browsing your artful image selections.
Scatter Bliss,
Stephanie
Happy New Year, Trish to you and your family.
I have so enjoyed visiting you and seeing all the beauty you share.
Good luck with your Sons writing and all the projects you are working on.
Best wishes
Hugs
Carolyn
Trish, I am so glad to have met you and your wonderful blog. You offer a wealth of information (yes, I learn a lot from you!). You are so creative and talented but also so friendly and fun! I look forward to following you closely in 2010!
Much fondness, Monika
Hi Trish!
Beautiful papers! I can’t imagine how your place must have looked before you started tweaking it 18 years ago. Thanks for sharing all of your projects with us, it’s been inspiring, and fun to see. For that matter I could live with that desk too……But I also wanted to wish you a very happy new year full of fun blogging, and style, thanks for all your support on my blog as these last few months have been distracting….Onward and upward! Maryanne xo
Looking forward to following this project of yours in the New Year. Somehow I just know you will bring your great eye and magical touch to it and produce an outstanding result. So glad to hear the essays/applications are wrapped up and that you can take a deep breath and relax. All the best to you and your family in the New Year, Trish. I have so enjoyed getting to know you and getting to see glimpses of your creative world. Here’s to peace, joy, friendship, abundance and distant travels in 2010!
~jermaine~
Bonne Annee et bravo pour les voeux Magnifiques!!!
Trish, I hope you are not away for too long as I look at your blog first each evening after returning from the shop. You are a great inspiration to me and always stimulate me to think about my approach to the antique business. Have a wonderful 2010! I will be watching for you!!!
Thanks laura
I love all the beautiful pictures and thoughts! An inspiration.
How lovely!
Dearest Trish.
A lot of thanks for all your wonderful posts on my blog. Your blog is a Rolls Royce!
I want to wish you a sensuous and beautiful 2010, and hope that you never will disappear from my cyber life.
Lots of love
Agneta, the swedish one
I adore your last quote !!!