Everyone feels like a movie star in a room featuring Hollywood Regency style furniture and decor! This cool, classic and classy style looks as good in today's homes as it did when it first emerged during Hollywood's heyday. It is closely related to the Art Deco style, as you can see in my Guide to Art Deco Style Furniture but it is a distinct decor style of its own.
Hollywood Regency is a luxurious look that sparkles with glitz, glamour, and opulence. This type of furniture piece features a focus on clean lines, geometric shapes, glossy surfaces, and opulent textiles. The dramatic style has a sense of the theatrical, creating a chic stage for people to socialize and look fabulous while doing so.
It is not surprising that Hollywood Regency style has an Art Deco feel as it developed during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, the same years when Art Deco was a major new trend in interior design.
Movie-goers across the country were star-struck by Hollywood's leading ladies and gentlemen, and were influenced by their opulent homes. Interior designers such as Dorothy Draper and actor-turned-designer William Haines were two of the taste-makers who established the look, which stayed popular through the 1950s. This photo of a foyer in the Greenbrier Hotel, designed by Dorothy Draper shows exactly why the style grabbed people's attention!
Typical features for Hollywood Regency style furniture and decor include:
Hollywood Regency style furniture and decor lets you bring out your creative side with an elegant but lighthearted look that puts people at center stage. This style doesn't take itself too seriously and you can go brave and bold. Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Have you taken a shine to Hollywood Regency Style furniture and decor? If you want to shop the look, browse our EuroLuxHome.com website for the perfect piece.
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 9 (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.
Our customers often tell us how much they love our eclectic range of furniture and home accents from our new supplier, Dovetail Furniture. If you enjoy classic furniture design, innovative updates on vintage styles, and showroom quality at reasonable pricing, then you will definitely want to check out this terrific brand. Every item in their great selection can bring a new feeling to your home. Whether you're looking for a dining chair, nightstand, headboards, or more, this brand has you covered.
For example, the Dovetail Francis arm chair shows just why Dovetail Furniture is so appreciated. This piece combines hand-craftsmanship, great design, and beautiful natural materials. Note how the woodworking complements the upholstery, with shades that are understated but beautiful. This gives a certain versatility, as this chair's product design allows it to fit in either a living room or dining room. Combining textiles with quality wood can be a tall order for many designers, but not for Dovetail Furniture.
This piece features a hand-carved wood frame and hand-woven rattan. The seat is upholstered in goat hide to add extra texture to your interior design scheme, as well as plenty of comfort! The striped linen pillow is also included, as the perfect finishing touch. Chairs like this one are the pinnacle of handmade furniture, and that's why furniture retailers like us love it.
They also offer bar furniture, including bar stools an bar carts. If accent furniture is your taste, they offer accent tables and accent chairs as well! These can be perfect as casual dining sets or as outdoor furniture.
Here's another example, with the charming new blue Dovetail Madrill side table. This wonderfully versatile piece features an unusual design adorned with carved appliques.
The side table or small chest is crafted in reclaimed old pine wood with a charming distressed blue finish, as well as lovely brass hardware on the two drawers. Not only is it an eye-catching piece, but it also features a drawer for extra storage space.
It's adorable from top to toe! So is this newly crafted Dovetail Furniture Percy bench. If you enjoy French Country Farmhouse style or French Provincial style, this bench might be what you need. Notice its pretty oak wood frame and comfy linen upholstery. This traditional beauty gives a delightfully welcoming look to a living room or foyer. It's also lovely as a bed bench in your bedroom.Your home office could benefit from their selection of console tables, table lamps, sideboards, and more. A bookcase could be the perfect piece for any reader, or maybe a coffee table or end table is the home furnishing you need. The point is, Dovetail's selection of home decor is immense.
Dovetail Furniture also makes lighting and home accessories such as mirrors. We love this Dovetail Sia Chandelier because it is full of exotic appeal. If you want a fresh take on a glamorous chandelier, this sumptuous beauty has your name on it. Crafted in polished nickel metal and glass, the Sia chandelier has a seductive double teardrop shape that looks as if it could have come out of a fairytale. Imagine how seductive the Sia chandelier or pendant light will look as it glows over your dining table or in your bedroom at night!
We're antique people, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate quality modern furniture. Dovetail Furniture has made its name by creating stunning furniture, lighting and home accessories for decades. There is plenty to choose from for every room in your house, with a wide range of items in the Traditional, Transitional, Updated Mid-Century Modern, Contemporary and Modern styles. From sofas to chairs, tables to chandeliers, or even a mattress, Dovetail Furniture probably has something to meet your specifications.
So, if you've enjoyed our little preview, we hope you have fun browsing our selection of Dovetail Furniture, lighting and home accessories. For information, help, or anything else, feel free to contact us using the info on our website!
We'd love to hear your feedback in the comment box. Tell us which of the Dovetail Furniture pieces you like the most!
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 connect with EuroLux on Google+. Or you can sign up here to receive this blog in your inbox.
Who doesn't wish they could live in a French Country house? If we can't actually move to France to live in the beautiful rolling countryside, then we can at least recreate this timeless and charming style in our home decor. The French Country look is elegant but still comfortable, welcoming and easy to live with. These recently published books explore what gives your home the French Country look and summon up the easy-going Country House style.
Allison includes antique furniture in her home... of course! Antiques and vintage pieces are important to this look to give the romantic aged effect of heirlooms and things collected over the years. Other key elements include a muted color palette and fixtures such as vintage door knobs. Allison also believes that every room should have a beautiful chandelier! We agree with you, Allison!
The dreamy color palettes, antique furniture, vintage styling and gorgeous details add up to a wonderful sense of visual delight and relaxed living, As well as interiors, the book explores the open-air lifestyle in French gardens too.
Sometimes it is the little things that make all the big difference in a room. Murphy's book is packed with inspiration for a relaxed and refined countrified space.
The Greek Key pattern is one of the most elegant designs in home decor and furniture. The pattern is a linear design that keeps folding back on itself in a pattern of right angles. The simplicity is very harmonious. It is very popular for any style of home, and it has remained popular for thousands of years!
The geometric pattern was frequently seen on ancient Greek architecture, tiles, vases and other objects - hence the name. The picture above shows the Greek Key in tiling on a contemporary bath in Los Angeles and the classic effect is lovely.
But despite the name, this motif has actually been seen in many other places, even before the ancient Greeks adopted it! It's popped up in ancient Egypt and China as well as some older South American cultures.
People probably weren't reading home decor blogs back in those days! So it seems that the geometric design has a natural appeal for many different people in different ages.
The original name for the Greek Key is a meander pattern, inspired by the very winding River Maeander in Turkey. It is often used as a border for tiling, ceramics, curtains, rugs, cushions and other textiles. But it can also be a filled pattern covering a complete surface. And of course it looks great on traditional architecture, like this fireplace.
There is a lot of Greek Key design and its variations in this photo: in the fireplace, the cushions, the mirror frame. Some might find it a little too much, but it shows how the geometric element can be used and combined in multiple ways. Also, the bold pattern cleverly pulls together an otherwise simple design scheme with a neutral palette.
The Greek Key design also looks terrific on furniture. We have several pieces of Greek Key furniture in our online store, including this terrific new Greek Key console table with a rustic pecan finish. It is also available in white and an antiqued walnut finish.
The meander motif is easy to add to your home with lighting or other smaller home accessories. This terrific new Currey & Company wall sconce offers an elegant interpretation of the design. With the sleek design and antiqued brass finish, a pair would look superb in a bathroom, powder room, bedroom or hallway.
The decorative and classic Greek Key design works for both more masculine or more feminine design schemes, whether contemporary or traditional. It is often seen in black on white, but any color combinations work, as do tone on tone variations like the sconce here where the raised key gives a textural effect.
What do you think of the Greek Key pattern? Do you have it in your home? Tell us about it in the comments box!
French vintage decor is always in style and it looks great in any kind of home. Whether you live in a city home or a country cottage, French vintage decor always looks comfortable and elegant and it lets you bring your own personal touch to your space. These new books are packed with inspiration to create a welcoming home with the charm of vintage French decor. Nothing like a vintage French bookcase! And don't forget that you can buy vintage French furniture and home accents on our website, too! Curl up with a croissant and a café au lait to get you in the mood, and enjoy!
Interior designer Carolyn Westbrook shows her love of French style and vintage charm in this new book. She takes us on a tour of ten homes with vintage French style, including a fabulous chateau, a Mid-Century Modern interpretation, and even her own family's Texan plantation home,
Mixing old and new is a basic element of making vintage style work successfully, and Westbrook also shows the reader how to combine and display your collections and precious items such as vintage store finds to inherited heirlooms.
We agree with every word! In her new book, Anita Joyce shows how to create the warm elegance of classic French style, including a tutorial for making Joyce's own French bedspread!
Jamie Lundstrom gives us even more Do It Yourself projects to decorate our homes in true French vintage decor style.
The 70 clever and beautiful tutorials with lots of photos include how to make dried flower ornaments or a flower garland or display plants in a mock 'cast iron' planter. Perhaps you'd like to know how to crochet pillows packed with French appeal or make a baguette bag with a drawstring? Decoupage, drippy candles, rusted frames.... the author has many tricks to help you create your own rustic and vintage style French decor and add a little "Je ne sais quoi" to your home.
A quality vintage French bookcase or bookshelf could also be a great way to enhance your living room or home office. Whether you choose an inlaid Louis Philippe piece, a Baroque or Napoleon III style creation, an Art Deco or French Country piece, or even a Louis XV style bookcase, you are bound to be impressed. The solid wood construction, combined with techniques such as inlays and marquetry, brings shabby chic in addition to storage space in your home. From oak bookcases with open shelves to Louis XVI rosewood pieces, you'll find that French furniture covers all the bases. Quality vintage shelving takes inspiration from antique French craftsmanship of the 19th century, with more modern touches such as adjustable shelves creating a perfect way to display your collectibles! You could even put one in your dining room for dinnerware.
If you or any of the people in your life are sailors, boat lovers, historians, military collectors or lovers of the sea, you will want to know about the hand-crafted model ships we now stock from Old Modern Handicrafts. This is the USS Constitution.... isn't she wonderful?
These high-quality Old Modern Handicrafts model ships are hand-built to scale using traditional techniques such as the old-school plank on frame or plank on bulk head methods. It can take the craftsmen hundreds of hours to build a ship. The Modern part of the Old Modern Handicrafts name is because, in combination with the hand-crafted methods, the company also uses the high technology of laser machines to replicate the ship details to the exact scale of the original. Some models are built to museum-quality level and some are exclusive editions with a unique serial number.
Here's a close up of the USS Constitution model ship, otherwise known as Old Ironsides. A legend in the War of 1812, the three-mast frigate had a hull that was 21 inches thick and Paul Revere forged the copper spikes and bolts that held the planks together. The Constitution is now a national landmark and museum, docked in Boston.
Here is a close up of the deck of the HMS Victory, including the metal cannons! Every detail is complete right down to the metal anchors and lanterns, a wooden rudder, and lifeboats.
Other model ships include The Titanic, The Cutty Sark, Chinese junk boats, sailing boats, motor boats, and all kinds of other famous ships from around the world. This is the Queen Mary, a very jaunty and decorative cruise ship indeed!
This 25-inch model packs a punch with its striped sail, rows of shields along both sides, wooden oars and brass nameplate. The Drakkar, or Viking Longships, had a maximal speed of around 15 knots, and they were also known as 'dragonships' due to the carved dragon-shaped bow, as you can see here.
The Old Modern Handicrafts hand-crafted model ships are built with woods including rosewood, mahogany, teak and Western red cedar, and the metal fittings and details feature chrome, brass or cast metal. They are very good value for money for this very high quality. Each model ship listing on our website includes many photos of the details so you can see just how intricate and true to life the replicas are.
If you have a coastal home or enjoy a nautical interior design scheme, the model ships are also a fabulous choice as decoration, as well as a great conversation starter when you have visitors. Find all the Old Modern Handicrafts model ships and other nautical accessories on our website. Ship ahoy!
We've added a lot of new Pinterest home decor and stylish living boards covering all kinds of areas including Antique and Vintage for the Home, to showcase some of the best antiques from our store but also ways to live with antique furniture.
For example, this fabulous image of stylish heiress Ann Getty's home in San Francisco. This emerald green room is packed with antique furniture and treasures, as featured in HarpersBazaar.com
Some of our boards are dedicated to specific spaces in the home. We have boards on beautiful bedrooms, stunning bathrooms, impressive and inviting hallways and entryways, vintage kitchens, home bars, and traditional offices.
We also have boards full of fabulous images of specific styles of antique furniture and the most popular home decor styles.
For example, Rococo furniture and decor, antique French Brittany furniture, antique French Hunting style, Louis XV furniture and decor, VIctorian Style, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern.
Whatever your taste, you will find a style board to follow! This is an image from the Country Farmhouse Furniture board, which makes us all want to sit down at that charming table and share a glass of French wine!
We hope that if you are Pinterest you will not only follow us but leave a message on one of our images to tell us you are a customer or blog reader.... then we can make sure we follow you back!
This buttery yellow formal living room works really well with the darker antique and paintings and the screen in the corner, and the paint color is Benjamin Moore HC-4 Hawthorne, if you would like to know!
We are keen gardeners, so we also have a board on beautiful gardens. This board shows some of our garden photos but mainly it is of gorgeous gardens around the world, and also great ideas for landscaping and making the garden even lovelier! This wheelbarrow planter makes me look forward to summer!
One of the most popular and versatile interior decor styles, the Transitional style is elegant and harmonious, drawing on the best of both traditional decor and contemporary looks. This school of design offers both the warmth and classic appeal of traditional homes, but updates the look with contemporary clean lines. Transitional furniture can be a great fit in your contemporary style living room. This style features clean lines that are sure to enhance your home decor. Transitional spaces are a sight to behold, so consider adding one to your interior design. Just imagine how lovely your transitional living room will look with some of these transitional design pieces.
Furniture such as chairs, tables and sideboards will feel familiar and comfortable. The profile, finishes and upholstery will be pared down to give that contemporary edge. This design style is the perfect blend of old and new, which is why we love the contemporary design of transitional decorating.
The furniture will create interest through the use of high-quality materials and crisp and strong design, like this Alden Parkes dining chair in our online store and the San Maria gray Transitional console below.
There are no fancy curlicues and frilly or ornate carvings and embellishments in the Transitional style!
The color palette tends to be neutral, including cream, taupes and browns, gray, and grayed out greens and blues. Monochromatic color schemes are tonally layered to create interest without visual clutter.
This bold red Jonathan Charles wine table is a perfect example of Transitional style.
Fabrics for upholstery and soft furnishings often combine textures including natural fabrics, slubbed linens and coarse weaves, and the mixture of matte and shiny surfaces. In this way, though the neutral colors might be the same, the effect is layered. This creates a lot of depth and an inviting mood.
This Furniture Classics bar stool with a chocolate brown weave is a perfect example of the textured neutral look.
Displays of ornaments and artwork treasures are usually fairly restrained, with a well-edited display of a few pieces that serve as focal points, rather than the more traditional approach of displaying a lot of pieces across many surfaces.
Strong, simple and serene are the watchwords for this light and easy Transitional decor style. We have many beautiful pieces of high-quality Transitional style furniture and home accessories in our online store, so browse around and get inspired!
Do you like Transitional style? Leave a comment in the comment box and tell us about your Transitional style decor! Traditional style decorating ideas bring some of the highest quality contemporary furniture on the market. Whether you're looking for chandeliers, coffee tables, dining tables, side tables and more, EuroLuxHome.com has you covered.
The rustic and comfortable Farmhouse style of decorating is always popular because it is so easy to live with and it looks beautiful. The emphasis is on natural materials, craftsmanship, a sense of harmony and space, and also vintage pieces and antique furniture that looks naturally well-worn and loved. These recently published books provide inspiration for decorating your home in this style, whether you like the traditional Farmhouse style or a more updated version.
The aim of the book is to cultivate a connection between family, home and nature and "bring the warmth and beauty of simpler times to your modern life naturally." I feel more serene already!
The book has suggestions for every room in the house as well as outdoor spaces, so readers can learn to “countrify” any area of the home to make it look "charming yet refined, homey yet chic."
The ideas show how to add the personal touch in ways that are easy and accessible for everyone.
The book includes Farmhouse paints, wallpapers and textiles as well as general decorating and styling tips. I love Leggett's statement that: "Designing your home is a lot like falling in love." That is so true!
I hope you enjoy the inspiration from these books and if you want to shop for some Farmhouse style, here are some Farmhouse pieces on our EuroLuxHome.com website! You can also learn more about a similar style, French Country Farmhouse, right here.
I recently wrote a blog about French Country Farmhouse furniture and decor because it is one of the most popular styles in our EuroLuxHome.com online furniture and home accessories store. French Country look is a timeless style that looks charming and is comfortable and easy to live with. These new books will give you more ideas for decorating your home in this style!
A peek inside these private residencies reveals the details that create the comfort and joie de vivre of Frech life, whether we're looking at traditional architecture like stone fireplaces or simple decor details like a row of gourds and earthenware jugs decorating the top of an old wooden kitchen buffet.
The book is arranged by season with sections including A Table in the Forest, Picnic by the River, Breakfast on the Terrace, Fireside Cooking and many more. Santoni actually grew up in England but she seems to have gone native over her years in France! I mentioned her book My Stylish French Girlfriends in a previous blog post on French Country Style and Decor.
The book is written by Leslie Linsley and she gives lots of inspiring ideas about how to decorate with salvaged and vintage items such as old windows, mailroom filing cabinets, wicker furniture, buckets and bathtubs to create very personal rooms filled with character.