Sea Shells and French Style
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 2:58PM
A few Months ago while surfing my favorite blogs I came across an entry on the wonderful blog Boxwood Terrace. Deborah was pulling out her Sea Shell collection and was asking for some display suggestions. Her post is Here. I had just finished some sea shell displays for a client and e-mailed a few pictures off. Deborah was gracious enough to post a few of my pictures on here follow up post. Here. To say that it was an honor is an understatement. Thank you Deborah!
She also hinted that she would love to see more of this house. So now that the house is almost completed I thought I would show you a few more ways we used Shells in this French Home.
This Home is one of the most amazing projects I have ever been privileged to work on. This was a full remodel with most of the house being taken down to the foundation. It is really quite a story and took almost 5 years to complete. In the process the Owners have become some of our closest friends. Their vision and wonderful eye for detail made it a perfect collaboration. I will follow with more post of this Home and some of it's story.
Also , living at the beach I do a lot of designing with shells and other natural objects. I will be showing some of those in future posts.
So what do you think. Most people think of Sea Shells for only Beach Style. Do you think it works with French?
Sue
I am linking this post to Vignette Fridays over at Color Outside the Lines.
Boxwood Terrace, french, sea shells
Reader Comments (12)
Hi Sue - I enjoyed see more of this beautiful house on your new blog. The combination of the wall color and gray furniture is so soothing. Thank you too for the nice comments about my blog and link--I am honored. Welcome to the blog world!
Deborah
BoxwoodTerrace.blogspot.com
Thank you Deborah, for your kind words. You are my very first comment ever!!! Sue
Hi. Just stumbled across your lovely blog... love these images, will be back!
Hi Sue! Oh, what a beautiful home and your work looks gorgeous! How wonderful to be able to work your magic here! I do love the shells and I think they work just fine with Frenchiness!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Hey Sue! I think that it's lovely in French decor. I absolutely love those vignettes - and what an amazing project! Great work! :) Thanks so much for linking up to Vignette Friday! I really appreciate it! Hope to see you again next week! :) Artie
What a beautiful house. I think the shells fit great into the decor of the home. Beautiful vignettes in a very lovely home.
Thank you all so Much for Visiting!! Artie I will definitely be back. Sue Murphy
GORGEOUS! Oh my, there are no words to describe what a feast for the eyes that was! Has it been featured in a magazine recently? It looked somewhat familiar to me. You are incredibly talented and I'm so glad I clicked on your Vignette Friday post!
Vanessa
http://southerninmyheart.blogspot.com
This is an incredible masterpiece... Incorporating shells into any decor can be achieved with taste and style and a bit of imagination... I have a library that looks like it stepped out of a Dickens novel, YET the section of "Sea Novels" has some beautiful shells that I have collected over time tucked in and it looks fabulous... I KNOW you can use them and you are SO TALENTED, I LOVE your work and want to see it all...
Donna@Conghaile Cottage
website is
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My website is http://www.cobbledcottages.com
Sorry for making that mistake on my above post...
Once again, I LOVE your work...
Have a Wonderful Day,
Donna
This is an incredible masterpiece... Incorporating shells into any decor can be achieved with taste and style and a bit of imagination... I have a library that looks like it stepped out of a Dickens novel, YET the section of "Sea Novels" has some beautiful shells that I have collected over time tucked in and it looks fabulous... I KNOW you can use them and you are SO TALENTED, I LOVE your work and want to see it all...
Donna@Conghaile Cottage
website @
http://www.cobbledcottages.com
Brilliant....I love the style.
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