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Adding Touches of Spring to the Breakfast Room!

Believe it or not, I’m still figuring out where to put everything since our move to our temporary home. The only room that hasn’t been moved around a few times is the breakfast room.

Our breakfast room is a very small space off of the kitchen and it only has room for the farmhouse table and chairs, the French blue commode, and the French estanier…

French Country Fridays No. 9 ~ Louis XV Commode, Gardens, Elegant Family Room and More!

It’s French Country Friday! Welcome to French Country Fridays No. 9! This edition of our weekly series, French Country Fridays, is filled with so much beauty and inspiration! I know you are going to love visiting my francophile friends and soaking in all the beauty in their french style homes. I’m traveling to the Gulf Coast today to shop at my very favorite monthly estate sale in Mobile,…

Several months ago, hubby and I were visiting a local vintage market and one of the vendors was a floral designer. In her booth was a fabulous flower display of white faux orchids in an antique dough bowl, set among green moss balls. It took my breath away…..but unfortunately, so did the price! The owner was gracious enough to let me take a picture of it, and I decided that I was going to try my…

A Blue French Provincial Dresser

The one piece of furniture in our home that gets the most attention and comments has to be the blue French Provincial dresser in our kitchen/breakfast room. It was recently part of our feature in the French magazine Shabby Style. It made me smile when they described it as a “Louis XV commode”. It just proves that you can add french style to your home without spending hundreds, or even thousands…