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Kindergarten crossing

Mariano Fortuny exhibit at Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum with @bububun on a hot summer day. We ended up matching~

I skipped all my other summer outfits, but since Laura just posted her own outfit, I thought now would be the best moment to post this one.

Annemarie is a set designer, event styler, and decorator. This is the entry hall- it’s her “homage to Versaille” and only a preview of the awesomeness to come. 

The sitting room. Annemarie likes to buy antiques from various places, including boot fairs. Great trompe l’oeil wallpaper.

This is The Snug next to the kitchen. The 1950′s bar was her grandma’s. She made the pillows herself.

How to completely redo a kitchen & pantry w/o renovating it. 

Floral wallpaper and bright blue in the main bath.

In the downstairs shower room, it took 3 days to decoupage the walls & ceiling with wallpaper samples and magazine pages.

The master has pop art pieces done by her friend, Tiff.

Guest room.

She did this bedroom for her granddaughter and made the mushrooms herself. Doris the cat looks a little uncertain, maybe she thinks this is a gnome home. 

That Warhol portrait of Jackie Kennedy has significance- her mother was nanny to Caroline Kennedy’s children. Every corner in the house tells a story.

And, this is how she decorated the beach hut she shares w/her friend, Tiff. This house makes me want to run to flea market!

https://priceless-magazines.com/

this bracelet came with the original letter 

addressed to ’ pet ‘ 

christmas 1884.

The real glo up is when you stop waiting to turn into some perfect hypothetical version of yourself and consciously enjoy being who you are in the present moment.

Il bagno nel bosco (The bathroom in the woods) by Augusto Corelli (Italian painter, 1853-1918)

This facelift begins with pastel blush for the walls. An old chest, painted with romantic flowers and ribbons, teams with a flowered sink and mirror for unabashed romance. The dressing table? It’s a junk store find clad in a lacy new “dress”.

The New Decorating Book, 1997

As opposed to that quote about “the horrifying ordeal of being known,” do y’all ever feel so positively UNKNOWN and UNSEEN that it frightens you? Like there’s a self that you feel on the inside, and you believe to be “you,” but it seems like nobody else sees that version of you? And they’re interacting with someone that isn’t you but a projection of their experience of you? What’s more, perhaps nobody will ever know your true essence and you will die without ever being fully realized????? I’m only two beers in honestly

Carla always wanted an “Addams Family House,” and when this 1874 Victorian  came on the market, she was discouraged to see that it was on “Millionaire’s Row,” in Danville, Virginia, but then she realized that a million was a lot less back then, so she and her husband were able to buy it.

This began a 15 yr., & counting, marathon restoration project. Carla didn’t want to keep the white paint on the outside and was eager to see what was underneath.

This was the front parlor in the 1880′s.

This is how they found it.

Carla cleaning it up- she said she doesn’t know what made her think she could take on a project this big.

The parlor under construction.

The elegant finished product.

This was the music room before.

The music room after.

The previous owners had remodeled the kitchen, but Carla wasn’t having it.

So, the kitchen was completely taken down to the studs.

And, look at how incredible it is, now. 

The fridge and freezer were hidden in this exquisite cabinet. 

The finished exterior. Magnificent. You can follow the project by clicking on the link below.

https://danvilleexperience.blogspot.com/