Category: Our Apartment in Paris
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Rough Luxe Patchwork
18th century silk textile fragments. Intricately hand embroidery with gold threads. Most likely made for a church altar piece… The torn pieces I found years ago, are not bigger that my hand. My Belle Mere and I…
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How is it with your Mother in Law?
French brocante finds… sorry Mat. Found a pair of sconces, my Belle Mere rewired them. Rubbing my hands happily, I saw a whole new world opening up… I went through a few of brocante boxes finding other light fixtures that…
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French Mother in Law in Town
My oh so chic French mother in law is in town. Everyone thinks she is my sister. My Belle Mere (Mother in Law, in English. Though literally Belle Mere means: Beautiful Mother.) She is. We went shopping for the Paris…
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Remodeling an Apartment in Paris
With notebook, pencil, and tape measure in hand I went to every shop I knew that dealt with building, remolding and design only to discover more shops and more ideas. Tile shops, flooring shops, bathroom shops, kitchen shops, shops…