I´ve been working on the Orangerie yesterday. I´ve made a table out of an old top, used some chopsticks for legs and then patinated it quite much, but I like the result. I still haven´t decided what to do with the chairs (there are 4 of them), I don´t want it to be too much of the same, but not too messy on the other side though...maybe I´ll make them grey with a slight of light blue. And then I need to make the floor, and the stained glass, and the candelier, and the panels, and the second part of the house, and....
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Hi Susanne, that is my current favourite Chinoiserie wallpaper! It looks great, many pretty details. But where is the little bench that you made? The one that you have used in the blog photo.
ReplyDeleteI am really looking forward to see the end results.
Hi Lize, Thanks for your comments!
ReplyDeleteYou can find the wallpaper on this page http://www.mini1til12.dk/print8b.htm
Its the one, I used earlier as a headder on the blog, with little birds. It´s a danish site with a lot of free prints.
I think the bench will be placed in the twin part of the room. I´m planning to by one more orangerie, and turning it the orther way around to make the room double. In that part I want to have the more garden-like things, the water and earth-things, such as the bathtub, the birds bath, lots of pots and plants, seeds and so on.. ;-)
Du har godt nok været flittig :0) A lovely work you´ve done with the orangerie, you´ve already manage to capture that Toscany feeling... Mayby instead af painting the chairs, try sanding. The wood texture gives a bit of roughness to the painted. I immidiatly noticed the art nouveau mirror...Envy!
ReplyDeleteSorry...not mirror but picture :o)
ReplyDelete..Thanks Annie. I think you´re right about sanding the tables instead, because I like the the wood that matches the other dark wood furniture in the room, although these are too shiny. And yes, it´s not a mirror but a frame with a picture that matches the wallpaper. Don´t remember where I got it, I would have thought that you had one too ;-0
ReplyDeleteI love the old table, great how you made it...I would make the chairs white and then with sandpaper over it, to give them also an old look...
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle. It´s another good possibility, I´m thinking hard about it, but it will take me some time to decide ;-)
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