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The Best 9 Tips For Hollywood Regency Decorating

Orange Leather on leather on Klismos Chairs

Tommy Smythe- HGTV star, Sarah’s House co-host and Toronto has made over his historic home into a residence with glitz and glamour.  Hollywood Regency has been known to combine the high end elements such as polished marble, glossed walls, classic panelled cabinets, crown moulding and tufted furniture gussied up with  accents of brass silver and [...]

Buscot Park's Regency Furniture

Buscot Park Hall- Pair of Ebonised Gilt chairs From The Thomas Hope Suite

Buscot Park is a glorious example of the Regency style. The estate was built by Edward Loveden Loveden between 1779 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. The house was inspired by the architecture of the great Renaissance architect, Andrea Palladio.  Most of [...]

High Quality Antique Reproductions

ANTIQUE SCHOFIELD STERLING SILVER REPOUSSE FOOTED BOWL

Stancil’s Antiques Unlimited has been in the antiques business for over ten years specializing in antique furniture, glass, jewelry, silver, porcelain and lighting. They also have a reproduction shop, selling high quality reproductions and lighting. They carry such names as Wildwood, Chapman,Chelsea House, Frederick Cooper.  Accessorize with Stancils [...]

Regency Wall Decorating

Elle Decor Regency Decorating

 The cover of the July /August Issue of Elle Decor featured a dramatic room with a wall covered in framed antique map prints. Most people have plain walls, not because they choose to, but rather because coordinating art prints can be challenging at times. If you enjoy the finer elements in [...]

Mary McDonald's Regency Styled Interiors

If you love Regency and Hollywood Regency styled homes, then you must study Mary McDonald’s interiors. She is ranked one of House Beautiful “Top 100 Designers” and has been featured in publications including Veranda, Town & Country, Domino, House Beautiful, House & Garden and International Vogue.  McDonald is a little different than the up and [...]

English Park Style Gardens

Design 2 Share features the gardens of a 1660 summer villa outside of Parma, Italy has been the home of royalty for centuries, from the Bourbons to the Farnese. Marie Louise of Austria changed the original formal French-style gardens to the present-day informal English park style. Join us as we roam the grounds of the [...]

Albert Hadley's Brass Front Door American Eagle

Albert Hadley's Brass Eagle Door

Albert Hadley creates a classic design in a small 1820s Colonial home in New Jersey featured in Home Beautiful  Your front door can speak volumes from the street.  Albert Hadley posts an American eagle on the Colonial homes brightly painted finish.

Legendary interior designer Albert Hadley is well known in the interior [...]

Hollywood Regency Color Ideas

People are often connected with colors, but they are afraid something bolder on their walls. The people who have a harder time are those people who are contemporary, and usually after sophisticated looks, but long for that color in their rooms.  Here are some quick steps to adding color into your life……….

First, always choose color [...]