The year and place: 1920's Paris
Time: The blue hour..........
Music: Mozart Lacrimosa
Mood: Anticipatory with a palpable sense of romance
Scent: The lightest hint of freesia wafting gently through the air rising from the vantines incense burner.
A conversation starts with the mundane details of the day, and as the air cools and it grows ever darker outside the talk turns to more important subjects.....Such as dreams.....and hopes...and the deepest desires of the soul.......
Tonight is a French dream to be remembered and savored......tomorrow.
Thank you for stopping by and letting me indulge in my French fantasy *winks*
I hope you'll come back next week for Flea Market Finds.
And please leave me a comment and I'll do the same.
I LOVE to hear from you!
Vanna
I'm joining Ann at On Sutton Place for:
And Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for:
Courtney at French Country Cottage:
Cindy at My Romantic Home for:
Honey at 2805 for:
47 comments:
Vanna,
I'm speechless!
Di :-)
X
WOW WOW WOW Love all your beautiful things and I want those peacocks!
Leeann x
Oh-la-la! So very French and so very beautiful! You have a wonderful collection of lovelies. Thanks for sharing your fabulous living room with us.
I love all of your decor...but I still can't get over th3e peacocks. They are so fun and elegant at the same time!
Hi Vanna,
Okay girl, I am ready to move in! I love, love, Love EVERYTHING!!!!
Seriously, you have amassed an outstanding collection,... beautiful!
Thank you for giving us a glimpse into your stunning home!
Big hugs,
Patti
Since finding your blog, it has very quickly become one of my absolute favorites. Each time I look at photos of your home, I find inspiration for my own humble house. Your living room is simply gorgeous. I could quite happily spend hours relaxing on the sofa and just drinking in the rich details of the room. I adore the peacocks!
All looks like a dream, and I get to be in it a little. I think your home must be magical. Every where you look, fun, and exciting and pretties to look at. I just am so glad you are sharing it with me. Richard from my Old Historic House.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful home with us !!
Vanna, so romantic and magical! Your homely is lovely, your pictures magazine worthy! Thank you for allowing us to come in and admire...
hugs ~lynne~
I agree Vanna!
Like Richard said... it is like a dream and I am so glad you even went with that theme and added the dream touch to your gorgeous photos!
Oh my heavens. I would love to talk through your timeless and priceless collections.
A museum of the most beautiful things!
So romantic.
Please stop by and answer the question I posted for bloggers today.
Would LOVE to hear what your answer would be!!
xoxox
Alison
Oh, my! Your taste is exquisite! These rooms are dripping with the details I love. It's all so beautiful!!
Nancy
SERIOUSLY!!!! Vanna, my heart can't take it! I don't know where to start. I know we agreed to lunch in your beautiful closet. lol Can we then just hang out forever in your incredible living room?
Whoa....I really have no words...your room is beyond incredible. I love your peacocks!!
This is so breathtaking!! i LOVE all! those peacocks are marvelous and time and place the 20´s is something so thrilling! i hope someday i got a home looking like this, its huge work but so worth of it- this is so full of BEAUTY!
thank you my friend for charing this one=)
hugs,
akissfromthepast.blogspot.com
Absolutely incredible! It takes my breath away!
Jennelise
Impeccable and beautiful my dear *winks* I love the french boy with cart..Breathtaking..Hugs and love Gloria
Beautiful fantasy - and you live there. I really want those peacocks, they will match my new peacock lamps. I really enjoyed the tour!
Oh Vanna what a delight! your home is so beautiful and romantic, I love it all. Where did you get the lovely peacocks? So cool. This is exactly how I would love to have my home look like. Thanks for the evening in Paris.
You my friend live in the wrong country in the wrong century, you have a lovely home! How in the world did you gets the edges of your images smokey? I want your cherub in the first image and thinks he needs a vaction in the country!
Hi Vanna...
Ohhh my goodness!!! Girlfriend, I have seen bits and pieces of your fabulous french living room before...but not to this extent! Thank you...thank you...THANK YOU!!! Your beautiful living room is certainly "dream" material for me! I just adore it! I even clicked on all of your photos so that I could see them larger yet...to drink in all the lovely details! Vanna, you have one of the most beautiful homes that I have ever seen! Each and every piece of furniture is sooo very beautiful! And...of course...I just swoon (the nice way of saying "drooled"...hehe!) when looking at all of those fabulous crystal candelabras..and chandeliers! I also really enjoyed seeing your art...GORGEOUS!!! Ohhh my...and then there are all of the beautiful statues! Girlfriend, your newest statue just looks fabulous in your living room...between the doors! Love, love, LOVE IT!!! I also love the statue in the first photo!
I do have a couple of questions for you..first of all, was wondering if that beautiful table that has all the inlaid wood patterns...if that style has a name? Second question...would love to hear more about your awesome piano.
Dear friend, thank you so much for sharing your fabulous french living room with us! It is truly one of the most beautiful rooms...and most romantic rooms that I've ever seen!
Ohhh yes...I do have a third question...when can I move in? wink! Hehe! Love you, dear friend!
Chari
PS...ohhh, I nearly forgot to mention those beautiful peacocks! Totally awesome, Girlfriend!!!
Vanna, (sigh) It is just lovely (sigh) I am in awe (sigh) I adore all the candleabras (drool) I will be adding these pictures to my inspiration file for my livingroom. Actually I think my LR will be part of Designers Challenge the first of next month so I am counting on you to help me get it looking like this with your suggestions (on knees begging)
Got a call from Wild Thing today! He is still in Costa Rica - they will fly back here next week and then he is planning on flying back there and working for a while! Will be good to see him for sure!
Bee blessed
mary
Oh My...loss for words..everyone wants the peacocks..save the child pushing the lovely cart with the Ivy for me please....beautiful..every picture is beautiful..
Enjoy time...
Gorgeous! Absoultely stunning! And the Peacocks, oh my goodness...over the top amazing!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Blessings,
Cindy
Your home is absolutely gorgeous!!
Wow, this is amazing! You definitely capture the mood of an evening in Paris. Beautiful!
Ah oui, c'est vraiment L'Heure Bleue, Chere Vanna!
It is such a pleasure to meet you! Thank you so much for your very kind comments on my blog. I'm very happy when someone finds a bit of inspiration! Well, let me tell you, as a lifelong Francophile, your blog is pure pleasure. Thanks to the wonderfully talented Jennelise, I have discovered your blog to my delight! What a gorgeous "petit chateau"!!! Just stunning. I love the piano corner...everything, the piano, the plant,the sparkles, the tasseled shawl, the PEACOCKS! Wow. Like stepping into a dream. Bravo!
I'm so looking forward to following your posts...Merci!
Blessings to you,
- Irina
You know I admire your eye for selecting treasures my dear Vanna, but my mind was more immersed in the mood and the words you selected to set the tone, the mood. You have a way with words and got me going on the fantasy. Then I went back and carefully, with a more keen eye, looked over all your treasures and relished that collection of incense burners and your light fixtures.
I think you're on too something here darling, I love it when you write and take us on a little "flight of fancy"
Your friend,
Trinidad
Vanna, this is not delusional, its fabulous! Your living room should be in a magazine or something. You really have a flair for decorating in this style. I can almost hear the music playing and smell the fragrance from the freesia in the room. Thanks for the fantasy.......
~Emily
The French Hutch
Vanna, I'm still drooling over your photos and the peacocks are just fabulous. I'm curious now...are they real peacocks that have been mounted? If so, where in the world did you ever find them?
I am in awe of you and your totally amazing living room. So many gorgeous items, so many details, so much romantic luxury...my heart is beating way too fast! But please, please feel free to indulge us at any time!
I am so pleased that you linked to Potpourri Friday. Your participation certainly makes the party more successful . I appreciate you, the most amazing Vanna! I hope you will make this one of your regular stops each week!
My favorite thing is the stunning piano. Thank you so much for sharing this with my Open House Party!
Your house is so Frenchy gorgeous, Vanna. I love how you arrange your furniture around.There is no chance for boredom anywhere in this room. All your stuff are so well picked and has the stunning "Vannaness" in them. Love them all!...Christine
Thank you for this tour of your beautiful home. The peacocks are amazing...such gorgeous furniture.
Oh Vanna, what beautiful, romantic Frenchiness. You have some of the most gorgeous lighting fixtures I've ever seen. I love everything in your home, but I know if I brought it all into my home, it would like as pretty. You have such a flair for displaying the romantic beauty of each piece. laurie
Just B E A U T I F U L.... you have created such a romantic flair.
Hugs,
Ellen
So Devine dear so Devine. I wouldn't have expected anything else from you after seeing your closet.
Oh Vanna I knew your house would be so can I say old luxury old ellegance. Meaning just fabulous !!
( I bought me a new LV) !!!!!!!!
made my trip to the city so devine
xoxo Janice
Wow Vanna, just stunning. The room is elegant, yet warm and inviting. Tres bon mon ami.
Paula
Oh Vanna,
I sooo love your home, inspiring to say the least! And I need your coffee table or one like it but with black marble, to go with some side tables I just got ( see my blog post for Friday). Hope you and Mike both well!
Linda
Vanna, Gorgeous!! I wish I could go shopping in your home.
Hugs,
Sherry
Vanna your Home is beyond fabulous... that Sofa & Pillows... the Piano area... and your Peacocks... *swooning* Everything looks so elegant and inviting... you Style so Beautifully my Friend.
Dawn... The Bohemian
I can't believe I am so late in visiting you amazing living room. I was on vacation last week and really neglected reading my favorite blogs. Your living room is perfection! I love, love, love it!
I adore your peacocks! I have some peacock feathers in matching vases, but would love real peacocks like yours! I have some small peacocks that I bought a few years ago to do a peacock Christmas tree and never did use them, but I am thinking maybe this is the year to do that tree!
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful home with us.
Michele
Hi Michele!
Awww thank you for your sweet comment. I hope you had a wonderful vacation! And yes this is the year for the peacocks *winks* so bring em out! Vanna
Vanna!! OMG!! Stunning beyond belief!!
Those peacocks are simply amazing!!
Hugs,
Debbie
Oooh soo gorgeous Vanna!!! So many drool worthy things... I don't know where to start!!! :) Sharing this at tonights party~ thanks for sharing it at FNF! :)
Your home is absolutely beautiful! I love how you have it decorated!
Oh I love how you've set the mood for this tour with the music and fragrance. I love your style! Lots of things to look at and study in this gorgeous room! You have so many beautiful pieces. I just love the little boy with the cart on your table and all of your grouped collections. This is just stunning! I'd love to come and sit for a long time and peruse.
Nancy
Dahlin', you simply must get your boo-tay to Virginie, as you and I are sisters separated at birth. We fancy the same frou-frou, and there's much to be had 'round these parts. Ponder it for a bit, okey doke?
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