💭 My Favourite Word Starts with “F” (what do you think it is & why?) PS: write your comments below…my answer will be the last “F” word on my other Favourite “F” word list… 🤍Family 🤍Fresh 🤍Fabulous 🤍Functional 🤍Flawless 🤍Frugal 🤍Friendly 🤍Funny 🤍Focused 🤍Fair 🤍Fierce 🤍France 🤍Feeling My favourite “F” word of them all is FEELING…what “good kind of feeling” can I create for others in my Life my Home my Store my Cafe’ & it’s my number one Interior Design Focus…for me it’s all about evoking a feeling 🤍
💭 Mrs. & Mr. Dressing Room Porcelain Reproduction Pulls, Knobs & Hooks (mostly used during the Depression period on pie safes, dry sinks & country cupboards)
💭 My passion for Interior Design, Decorating & Antiquing started at a very young age. I recall vividly walking home from kindergarten & spotting two pieces of framed art leaning against a garbage can in the back lane near my home. One was an abstract modern piece and the other was a small plaster art picture of a young girl in a cream dress. Of course these pieces came home with me. All the other children walked by and didn’t even notice them. My first Vintage Find which today would be a wonderful addition to one’s Gallery Wall 🖼️ As a young Mennonite girl I’d say my first attempt at creating a living space was on my Grandparents Farm in Starbuck, Manitoba. Attached to the old weathered red barn was a lean to of sorts which housed the farm cats. After a tradition roasted chicken Sunday dinner I was given the job of taking the greasy roaster out to the lean-to-shed for the farm cats. While I waited for the cats to lap up the chicken grease I though…I should make this cat house much nicer. So I commenced to do so moving about a bunch of old wooden crates & furniture. I have shared these childhood memories on this @worldinteriordesign day as I wish to celebrate all those young children who have become or one day will become an Interior Designer & Decorator. PS: I only have a few photos of me as a child…my sister…us two middle children had matching two piece bathing suits my Mom made…cute right?🤍 @frieda2533
💭 It’s not all Pretty But for me… This is Fun!!! (lots of dust & mess & hard work before it’s done and if you don’t like the journey than you shouldn’t build)
💭 The colour of French Porcelain🤍 ▫️slipper satin @farrowandball ▫️continental w bead door style @oldworldkitchens ▫️honed marble countertops @blackpearlgraniteinc ▫️brass knobs @le_bhv_marais ▫️French porcelain cups @littlewhitehouseco ▫️interior design @stephaniejeandesign @littlewhitemanor
💭 I left this morning around 8:30 and happily waved to the finishing guy and his crew. I had a beautiful out & about kinda day planned so I was very much looking forward to that but also to come home to see what all got completed today. I never tire of turning the corner and then driving down my quiet country road until I spot my little manor. Lookkk…she now has a second story railing🤍
💭 Good Nite Baby Barn Good Nite (gardening strong all weekend long & tonight we rest…sad the long weekend is over…do you feel the same?) PS: so thankful for the rain today as we reseeded patchy grass spots, weeded, dug the remaining 72 Hydrangeas holes & planted 20 some, designed my Country Colonial front & side porch islands and trimmed as much as time would allow 🤍
💭 Soon… I’ll be Sitting On my big Old Front Porch With a glass of Lemonade The shutters will be Hung The porch swing will Set The wicker chairs in Place And I’ll be Home Sweet Home 🤍 (may your long weekend be made of all things Home Sweet Home Charming🤍)
💭 I’d say… My Hood Fan Is Kinda Big… (not to worry…the stove is kinda big too…it will work…I promise 🤍)