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Paris In The Fall
Paris in the Fall is always a good idea. to paraphrase Audry Hepburn. 2020 has been a bad year for travelers like myself. Now as Europe and England go into another lockdown and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere settles into our long winter's nap I have become...
Happy Holidays With Efex
Happy Holidays Twas two weeks before Christmas and…I had failed to set up the tree. Ouch… sounding a little like the grinch instead of Santa Clause here. Every year we try to do something different with our holiday decor. However, the lead up towards the holidays has...
Dreaming of Normandy
I have always dreamed of finding an old run-down house or in this case, an abandoned stable and turning it into a manor home? This week on our Instagram feed, we are traveling to Normandy, a trip we did last year with @Sharonsantoni of My French Country Home. While...
Elegant Furniture
Adding Elegance to Your Furniture is Easy Have you ever watched a movie or dreamed of living in a period drama? As you swoon over the elegance of cinematography do you sublimely wish you could add a little more elegance around you in your everyday life? I think we...
Milk Paint Makes a Chippy Little End Table
Milk Paint is great for getting the chippy look and it was perfect for this little end table. But I am getting ahead of the story When our studio was at Maine Country Home we loved playing around in the studio. It gets this creative, buzzing energy flowing around...
Hand Made In The USA
Bespoke - Hand Made For You Did you know that all Efex are handmade in the USA and New Zealand? It's not just a marketing slogan we actually pour, trim and package every piece that goes out the door. In every piece of Efex is a maker dreaming of something. I am...
5 Great Movies….
........Where the house stole the show! The actual home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire Chatsworth almost needs no introduction. Chatsworth House is renowned for the quality of its art, landscape and hospitality, and it has evolved...
Stacey’s Patina Tour
We mentioned in our post "Doorway Patina" earlier this week that our friend Stacey Christensen, of Faux Studio Designs, was headed to Florence to study patina. Well, Stacey has landed, and the first stop on the patina tour has brought her to Milan. Home of high...
A Coup d’état in Sweden…
Gustavian Style Gustavian Style began with King Gustave III. He only reigned for 20 years (1772 - 1792) yet his patronage of the arts started a major design style. After visiting the French courts of Versailles in 1771 he returned home as King, staged a quick coup...
