Bookshelf: French Accents, Artful Decor, Heirloom Style

I always enjoy seeing how creative our customers are in combining antique and vintage furnishings into their artful decor, whether they live in a cottage, a townhouse, or an urban apartment. Everyone adds their own personal touch, often mingling different eras and styles. When you bring together pieces you love, no matter how eclectic your tastes, the love will always shine through. These new books are packed with inspiration to create a welcoming home that is utterly unique to your vision.

French Accents: At Home with Parisian Objects and Details

Oh yes, we're definitely at home with Parisian objects at EuroLuxHome.com! Author and stylist Erin Swift illustrates ways to add a dash of French charm and sophistication to your home, and I'm delighted that she mentions the popularity of antique furnishings in French interior design, even for hip youngsters and for homes with a more contemporary focus. As Swift writes: "Antiques aren't just for amateur historians, and art isn't just for collectors." We've seen this eclectic approach on our antiques buying trips in Europe, and maybe that's why French style enjoys a reputation for a certain "je ne sais quoi." Parisians have the design confidence to select the artful decor objects they love, combining styles and eras, and present their vision with a "voilà!" Our American customers enjoy that confident flair of individuality too, as you can see in our client spotlights.

Artful Decoration

Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman explore how to combine classic looks with whimsical details to create that extra oomph of originality in your home. I notice that many rooms photographed for the book feature stunning lighting features, from ornate chandeliers to eye-catching lamps. We're certainly fans of fabulous lighting and we always snap up our favorite chandeliers for EuroLuxHome.com, from Gothic to Rococo to Renaissance Revival to just "we thought this vintage piece was gorgeous, however you want to label it." Lighting sets the mood for any room, as I mentioned in my three tips to light a home beautifully.

Heirloom Modern: Homes filled with objects bought, bequeathed, beloved, and worth handing down

Author Hollister Hovey and her photographer sister Porter are clearly our soul mates in their passion for heirloom pieces and artful decor. They show how antique and vintage furniture and accents can be beautifully integrated into any style of home, to create a sense of history and reflect the unique personality of the home-owner. With so many different people's decor photographed for the book, I wonder if any of our customers are featured in it? I'll have to study all the photos and see if I can spot a treasure from EuroLuxHome.com!

Aimee owns EuroLuxHome.com with her husband and best friend, Greg.  Aimee sources amazing antique furniture, vintage lighting, & high-quality reproduction furniture to help her customers decorate their homes in a unique way. She loves her 8 (you read that right) fuzzy children and is renovating a 1920s bungalow in South Carolina. Find us on Facebook or you can sign up here to receive this blog in your inbox.