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The Best 9 Tips For Hollywood Regency Decorating

Admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:16:39 +0000

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 gold. Geometrical patterns are very popular in this style, and commonly implemented with stone floors, patterned rugs, painted or stone walls, tile and art work.

Borrow a Few Ideas From Smythe:

1 -In the few pictures of his home, you can see the house is not cluttered, which is a key to any design. You (Read More.....)

Buscot Park’s Regency Furniture

Admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:32:40 +0000

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 the furniture here is of the Regency period, and reflects the revival of interest in that style in the inter-war years.

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High Quality Antique Reproductions

Admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:51:01 +0000

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 unique reproductions and antique (Read More.....)

Regency Wall Decorating

Admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:45:42 +0000

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 life such as the sleekness of marble, the bright glitz of brass, and highly lacquered paint finishes, glass frames lining the wall will be right up your alley. Displaying antique prints in glass frames may be a way of adding that extra notch of dignified glamour to your home. World maps have a wide range of benefits that make them the perfect decorating solution compared to simple sketches and oil paintings. We give you three considerations that you cannot deny why framed maps make perfect sense for your (Read More.....)

Mary McDonald’s Regency Styled Interiors

Admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:35:54 +0000

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 coming designers in that (Read More.....)

Albert Hadley’s Brass Front Door American Eagle

Admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:47:51 +0000

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 design community, and has designed for former Vice President Albert Gore, Diane Sawyer, Babe Paley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the Astor and Getty families. Hadley is known for his Georgian decorating, bringing in elements of neoclassicism, and all areas of design which are historic. He says without a basic knowledge of the history, design often fails. "If we cannot have connoisseurship (Read More.....)

Hollywood Regency Color Ideas

Admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:49:41 +0000

Lacquered Sideboard By Henredon Seller Lawson Fenning

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 you are drawn to. Second, utilize the color wheel for professional results. For example if my favorite color is green, then I could have the options of working with darker shades of green and lighter (Read More.....)

Regency Style

Admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:33:08 +0000

"Regency Style" by By Steven Parissien is a comprehensive and stimulating book on everything to do with Regency Style. Parissien's book is a comprehensive survey of the Regency period (1780-1837), when the English interior decoration first emerged as a popular style for both the wealthy and the average house owner. Regency Style traces the history of British styles, as it combined influences of the technological innovations of the day.Parissien also does an excellent job at examining the Regency styled house of England and America. He doesn't miss the opportunity to investigate details of typical homes breaking down the architectural details, colour schemes and furniture for each room. Steven Parissien also pays highlight to key designers as John Soane and Thomas Hope. It is a book worth getting!

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