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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 [...]

Regency Furniture At The Clarence House

Antique Chandeliers Clarence House

Clarence House is located in London in the city of Westminster. For over 50 years it was the residence of the Queen Mother and was also the official residence of H.R.H. Prince Charles and Camilla until 2009. The house was commissioned by William IV and built between 1825~ 1827 by John [...]

Regency Drum Tables

Regency Furniture- Walnut Drum Card Games Casino Roulette Table From Abbey Antiques Ebay

Abbey Antiques is selling a sensational burl walnut George III / George IV / Regency design games roulette table. The table stands on a very attractive burl walnut and carved gilt paw and wing foot tripod base with the paws with decorative Eros wings [...]

Thomas Hope - Regency Furniture Designer

Thomas Hope

We are familiar with the interiors and furniture of Thomas Hope chiefly through his 1807 book, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, and its exquisitely restrained plates composed of thin black outlines on white grounds, free of all shading, shadow, or color. And so, faced here with more than 400 color illustrations of the [...]

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 [...]

Decorating With Vintage Trunks

Don’t discount a vintage trunk the next time you run across one in an antique or second hand store. Decorating with trunks presents limitless opportunities around your home. Almost every decorating photograph involving trunks shows Louis Vuitton trunks, but you don’t have to limit yourself to name brand luggage. There has been countless times where [...]

White Painted Furniture

Regency Empire Furniture Ideas

Picture Credit The Enchanted House Blog

Often times when people think about decorating with a particular color, they automatically gravitate by painting the walls that hue and accessorizing with coordinating furniture.  There certainly isn’t anything wrong with that approach, although for many people who adore bold pops of color they tend to be [...]

Historical Paint Colors

Ralph Lauren is famous for his clothing, but perhaps just as well known for his home collection. Elle Decor featured pictures of the restoration project that took place at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello’s estate in which Ralph Lauren generously donated to complete the transformation. Located on a mountaintop outside Charlottesville, Virginia the dining room was repainted [...]

 
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