1700s home decor

Tour Chateau-sur-Mer in Newport, RI

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Today I've been trawling through my collection of ancient magazines and in bound copies of House and Garden from 1985 I found pictures of rooms Geoffrey Bennison created in Paris for Princess Firyal of Jordan. During the 1980s, the height of the English Country House style, decorating seemed awash is chintz, so today it came as a pleasure to find an interior as complex as any other done at the time, though without chintz, that did not repel in its sneeze-inducing mustiness or need a damned…

This post about elegant colonial interiors was like a trip down memory lane. In my early 20's I was in love with primitive colonial decor. My Bible was a magazine called Colonial Homes. In fact I bought a beautiful corner cupboard with the first pay check from my first job. I put it on lay away and paid the antique store monthly until I had it paid off. I was blessed to find an old two story colonial home to restore and fill with my obsession. I had some beautiful pieces, did the stenciling…

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