NEED MORE DESIGN HELP? One month FREE! RU-vid viewers can join my OLD WORLD DESIGN SOCIETY free! Click here: old-world-design-society.circle.so/checkout/youtube-special-offer Today I'll get you up to date on the kitchen floor project. We've begun to tear out the kitchen floors and I've started hanging my Monet tile above the range! We're diving into this podcast-style talk about your home and exactly how to source and incorporate these ideas. You're going to LOVE it. READ TODAY'S BLOG: www.parisiennefarmgirl.com/5-ways-to-add-old-world-charm-to-your-home and for the blogs delivered right to you, make sure you're on my list, darling! parisienne-farmgirl.ck.page/profile
I am subscribed to Cabana magazine and World of Interiors and I often compare their articles to American interiors that are too new and perfect. My sofa is over 100 years old, I had it redone and am making a slip cover but friends suggest a 'new' sofa, no way! Drapes are important, generous ones with trim. Old worn rugs are great and I have a lot of those ! Old lamps and handmade shades using old Indian saris make a great statement. My china is all mismatched and my saucepans old copper that I had retinned. Pillows made from scraps of old embroidery or offcuts of gorgeous fabric. Odd chairs around an old table with seat pads in scrap fabric. I used old tiles patchworked behind my copper pans and sink. I am moving again into a much smaller house so I drew up a grid and cut out grid shapes of my essentiel furniture to 'fit' them into the rooms before moving. I buy old frames and do my own framing, sometimes painting them like old ebony. I recently took to painting and patinating furniture in an antique Italian style, great fun. I worked in couture in Paris for many years but it's interior design that really is my passion.
I was just gifted a 20 year old leather chair...Oh it is beautiful!! 99 % of my 1880 apartment is furnished with antiques and nothing I have was paid for by me...all given to me because people wanted "New". I just love them all!!
Too much narration and not enough examples. Have you thought about doing more ''voice overs'' so we can see the objects being described? I found myself advancing the cursor to get to what you were describing, continually.
Thank you Angela. May you be encouraged in your identity in Christ. Your ideas are so beautiful and I've used many in my home. May you be encouraged and continue to bless your family and home with the beauty of the Lord. Blessings
Angela, I agree with another commenter, you always look gorgeous and your make-up is stunnig! Would you, please, consider giving a tutorial on how you do your make-up?
I think your fantastic and I come to watch your content becomes you add value to my life. You inspire me to do better at adding beauty to myself and my family. I know it takes effort and I want to make that effort after watching and listening to you. Please don't listen to anyone who is not giving you that same treatment. You are a treasure and that's what you should be holding onto after reading your comment section ❤
Love this. I bought old door hinges - specifically, old victorian eastlake hinges and replaced those on the doors that are left open most of the time. They are so pretty - like jewelry for my house!
I've got 12-over-8 hand blown wavy/bubbly original colonial windows that make me so happy. But, on the flip side, upstairs is a full-on 1940 art deco hexagonal chrome-palooza, floor-to-ceiling white 4"x4" tile, pistachio suite bathroom. That whiplash juxtaposition is truly the nature of old homes. These are great design ideas to help create a bridge between design eras!! We can't afford to do a full reno on anything right now; and it can be overwhelming to have 7' ceilings with horsehair plaster walls- it can feel limiting. This talk really expands affordable design concept insight for my old house!! Thank you Angela!!❤
I really like watching your videos. They're very inspiring. I've been on a mission of acquiring antique furniture. I have a French chair that was my aunt's. It's been slow, but extremely rewarding. Everything has either been off of Marketplace or an antique store. My next mission is to acquire some copper pots & pans. I'm not really sure how to go about that right now. Would you know where I would need to look?
Thanks Angela for an informative video. I love French country and focus my dining room in that design. To make one wall look like plaster I took crumpled tissue paper and then applied it with the paint on the wall . It WAS easily overlapped to meld into the crinkles that made the plaster appearance. I m tempted to do whole room but at 74my little ailments hold me back. Thank you for sharing your home and ideas.
I love a home that looks lived in , not one that is staged. decorating videos and tik tok all look alike cause they get all their stuff from pottery barn or magnolia etc. even if they thrift they still try to mimic the look. i don't like a carbon copy of my things. one reason i like to buy art from garage sales and thrift stores, you know not everyone else is going to have the same thing.
You’re such an inspiration! Thank you for this course! I started hand painting Monet tiles for my kitchen and all the way around the wall the leads to my back patio. I hope to join your society in the summer when we are done with homeschooling for the year. 🎉
Excellent, we'd love to have you. I just finished the tile above the range late last night - just the motivation I needed to keep painting the hundreds I need for the rest of the kitchen. So glad I didn't wait to install them all at once.
@@ParisienneFarmgirl I’m going to have to do the same, my space is small, but holy moly, it’s still a lot of work. Every tile painted, I have to have a pep talk, let go of perfection… ahhh 😆
Angela I’ve been trying to join the old world society but I have a circle membership because of shea …so when I put in my membership information it tells me I need a email address where my name is….if I do it the other way it says I already am a member???
🎉hi, should this say- before the end of the free month? "Your first month is free. While we want you to stay and enjoy the Society, cancellation must occur before the end of the free week to avoid charges."
Your channel was recommended to me today and you gave a lot of really great suggestions. Prior to 2020 my husband and I travelled to Europe regularly, to this day…. if it wasn’t for our family… I would move there in a heartbeat. I’m fortunate to have a weekend country home a few hours north of Manhattan that is older, and has many of the things you are suggesting. I have one big pet peeve and that is non functioning outdoor shutters. I have been looking high, and low, and scouring every Architectural salvage place to find the shutters used in Italy/France/England. I have seen them all over Europe at markets, salvage, and antique shops, but can’t find anything in the US. I guess when I make it to Europe again I’ll have to buy them there, and ship them home😂. I look forward to watching more of your videos 😊.
I love watching you and I think your home is beautiful but I’ve had old world design my whole life. My background and then living in a 100 year old house for close to 30 years I love my small new house for retirement. I feel like it’s not cookie cutter but I like having everything new for cleaning etc. I guess I’ll get out some of my old hand me downs linens,quilts etc and drape them around.
Those chandeliers, you showed, are beautiful! All your ideas are spectacular because of the vintage vibe and your suggestions. Thank you for your videos.
In the attic of the early 1900’s home I grew up in was an oak door still in its brown paper wrapping. It had never been used! I have wished through the years that I could have had that old thing.
Love this! Listening brought to mind a fabulous salvage store in Ft Worth we used to visit. I love stainglass over newer windows. My 1960 home has horizontal bedroom windows. I hung an old hand embroidered linen piece over a window using clip on rings. . I think the piece was originally made for a fireplasce mantel but it's living it's best life now as a widow covering. Vintage linens grace my utility room door as well. Shelves around kitchen display vintage finds.
This is the link - are you referencing maybe the link at the top of my newsletters? All the links on this page go here and it says 30 days. old-world-design-society.circle.so/checkout/youtube-special-offer ---- unless I missed one. I'll go double check.
We bought a 1990s house it looks cottagey it has a few lovely gables and metal roof. It needed renovating as it had been stripped of anything metal,wiring and even doors ..We used to have an antique shop and had a salvage pile .We used a lot of stuff from the pile .cast iron triple bowl sink and a metal sink unit ,doors ,pieces of granite my husband made counter tops from ,we also sold concrete statuary so we used a lot of odds and ends in the garden .We havnt Bought anything new except for bedding .
Gosh I live in a very old home. Originally this home didn't have a indoor kitchen or bathroom. When additions were built on the water pipes are on the inside of the walls. There are pros and cons to it, heating being one of them. Angelia is right, doors and windows can make a room, after all a room is a ceiling, floor and four walls. I love the old doors in England with the ornate black iron straps on them. My husband is going to build the doors for our home. FYI; Wave glass can be purchased for windows that make them look old.
Loving this content angela!! I have a flipped home where all the character was stripped and everything was gray and white to make it more "appealing" to buyers. You and shaye have helped me so much over the years. From style, homemaking, and makeup you are the BEST ❤❤❤
It is a pity that here in Portugal so many old houses are being demolished to give place to modern ones...it is just a great pity. I am very pleased that someone so far away appreciates the beauty of the old world. God bless you Angela.❤
If you were going to design a home and build it exactly to your old world dreams, what would be on your priority list? Not really the decor, but the floor plan and types of spaces
Nooks and crannies. INTEREST. A large alcove/fireplace for the range (like mine only cooler:), transoms, ground level french doors that open to the outside, a true English basement, wine cellar, I'd use ONLY old doors and old cupboard doors for built ins, PLENTY of outlets for lamps, because lamps are such a key to a cozy space, hidden appliances, old tubs, living finish brass everywhere, wooden windows (NO VINYL) interesting ceilings, a library, ...
I used joint compound skip trowel it but super thin in multi directions it made the walls gave the texture of Venetian plaster. Then used a semi gloss paint so the texture a showed better. I actually wish I had done it with bothe semi gloss and mat . But when tge light hits it its soooo great looking. Also I made t g e corners imperfect so hey look hand plastered.
Excellent! I used to Venetian plaster everything. In this house we have the skip trowel but it's so boring for some reason. All the homes up here have it.
Oh boy - I filmed this class about two years ago for my design society so it's hard to say. It's probably Lipsense Fly Girl topped with Red Wine by Toups and Co.
I also bought an electric log fire insert and am looking forward to building an 'antique' chimney piece to surround it as the main room has no real fireplace although the bedrooms each have one ! I live in France of course.
