This absolutely classy settee shows you how stunning a white piece of furniture can be in your home. We have recently upholstered our Louis XV settee with a brown and cream ticking, and it turned out terrific! We finished the carved details in gold using a gold leaf pen, and our settee looks the very best it has ever looked before.
White upholstery can be daunting with pets and kids, but there are ways around having white furniture without having it ruined in a months time. One practical way of having lighter colored fabrics in your home is to create an additional seat cover with the same fabric. When guests come, or your kids, animals and guests sit on your furniture, there is no anxiety that your upholstery will get stained. Your seat cover can easily be thrown in the wash every two weeks for keeping it fresh. White also is a great choice, because it can be bleached where as other fabrics would be faded with so many washes over time. When you order, order enough for two slip covers. Louis XV and Louis XVI settees are timeless compared to our modern sofas. This stunning white upholstered French Louis XV Settee was featured on the Bastion & Lark Blog
Decorology featured some captivating interiors bathed in white. The home features outstanding architectural details such as ornate ceiling moldings, and wall molding details. This home is painted all in white, except for the plywood chairs, a wood chest and the bookshelves which give a pop of color in a home that is mostly bright whites. The sofas are upholstered in white and the kitchen features a beautiful white painted oval table.
Tine K Home Spring Summer 2012 line featured a wonderful presentation of all white decorating schemes using beautiful rustic french furniture. If you are looking for photos that work with all whites, this has been one of the best I have seen. The interior seems to have a primitive feel, and combines the look of painted wood with absolutely stunning furniture. French furniture is some of the most beautiful furniture in the world, and seems to have a timeless appeal that lasts years.
You can see this in the all wood paneled walls, ceilings and primitive looking wood flooring. If you want an antique appearance, consider working with the bare bones of your home. Work with wood that can be painted and distressed. Include other raw elements such as metals, brass, and stone. White marble can look terrific with this combination. Consider liming your wood, or even painting it.
Perhaps this building was at one time a barn because the ceilings are so high. Most homes don't have wood paneling up to the ceiling, but you can see in these photos how amazing it can look.
The cabinet is simply outstanding and uniquely tall with paned glass doors. The inside of the cabinet looks to be painted a darker shade of gray compared to the exterior white paint.
If you look at some of the photos the white suggests to be a off gray, instead of a stark white. Having an off gray as apposed to white suggests an aged look.
Antique finishes tend to have more of a beige tone, or a slightly off gray tone. Distressing also goes a long way to suggest age, and the slight showing of the raw wood gives a room a bit more warmth as apposed to perfect painting without ware.
All White Decorating Ideas Using Raw Limed Wood Beautiful Silver and Primitive Textiles From Tine K Home Spring Summer 2012
If you look closely at the interior contents of this cabinet, they have displayed all white plates and platters, and antique silver cutlery, and tableware. The antique books with leather covers add a bit of color to the all white display.
If you are considering painting your dresser white, consider painting the inside a shade or two darker than the exterior color. You can see here the gray inside the cabinet is just outstanding. Adding brass will give your dresser some warmth as the books do here.
A Closer Look At A French Bench From Tine K Home's 2012 Spring Summer Collection
A close up view shows the beautiful french bench displaying rustic leather books. The bench with unfinished upholstery gives it a very rustic appearance.
A Closer Look At A French Settee From Tine K Home's 2012 Spring Summer Collection
As you can see a closer view of the settee featured in one of their pictures. The settee looks to be Gustavian in nature, and has a very rustic appeal, with the unfinished sides, and very primitive looking upholstery. Lots of blue throws work well in this setting, keeping the color scheme to just a few colors.
All White Decorating Ideas Using Raw Limed Wood Beautiful Silver and Primitive Textiles From Tine K Home Spring Summer 2012
You have to love the display they have in this picture. A antique looking silver cloche is paired with white plates, and a white antique looking candle on a rustic wood table. The overall look is outstanding.
Primitive Decorating Ideas- Kay Douglass via Atlanta Homes Magazines Featured on Twelve Chairs Boston Blog
Decorating using all white can be liberating for the mind. Having a crisp white palette to work with can open up a wide range of decorating possibilites. Living in Seattle where it rains the majority of the year, white decorating is almost essential in order to maintain a sane mind! Day after day, the sky is overcast, and having a dark interior makes everything that much more dark. In our log cabin, the wood walls would eat up all the light making lamps, and overhead lighting a priority.
Sometimes, white furniture isn't enough to bring in the light, that white walls are needed to maximize the light available. White walls can see very plain to most people, and there have been a few designers who have really rocked the look of white decorating. Atlanta Homes Magazines featured designer Kay Douglass Georgia who designed a lake house which included rustic white painted walls, and layered it with colors such as raspberry, plum canary yellow and pomegranate. Not only did the house look primitive, but it also had so many colorful modern elements.
What made her design so successful is the furniture maintained a country appearance in the rustwith modern upholstery colors. The house was based on white paint colors and white slip covers which really brought out a fresh crisp look. Of the entire home, in my opinion the white painted walls really was the best feature.
All White Decorating From Designer Kay Douglass via Atlanta Homes Magazines
Primitive Decorating Ideas- Kay Douglass via Atlanta Homes Magazines Featured on Belgian Pearls Blog
Here she worked with Primitive Architecture, and layered in neutral wing chairs, and sofas and added modern touches through throw pillows. The rustic wood doors and additional lighting gives this home a primitive touch. Again, like the picture above, she utilizes wood walls and wood flooring to get that primitive edge.
Crisp Modern Furniture From Klaussner
Klaussner has a few very beautiful white sofas, chairs and ottomans that would look lovely in an all white designed home.
White Designed Rooms - Decorating With White - A Paris Apartment Via The Aestate Blog, Seen on The Greige Design Blog
A slight gray always looks excellent against a stark white. As you can see in this picture the walls are painted an off white, almost a gray tone and the trim or moldings are painted a white. The ornate wall ornaments give this room a french touch. This room is designed around white, as white slipcovers are seen covering the furniture, and the fireplace and wood furniture is painted a white. Raw wood really is the designers secret to the success of this look. The raw wood gives some depth to this room among the painted finishes and is also there to give the eye a rest from the boldness that the white provides. This room is an excellent example of great white decorating.
MBW sells a stunning white collection called the Poplar collection in which they sell a stunning upright 5 drawer ornate dresser. In the collection a computer hutch, an 11 drawer white dresser, vanity and bed are available. This collection has a lot of beautiful french looks suitable for a young girls bedroom, but also just as nice for a women's bedroom. Some of the furniture has the lines of Louis XVI such as the vanity and vanity chair. Many of these pieces are simply stunning! The best thing about this furniture is the pieces are so high end, that it wouldn't be furniture that would have to be donated once the children leave the house. Many of these pieces look like very high end reproductions. Needless to say, this collection is very impressive.
MBW Furniture White Poplar Youth Twin Size Mansion Bed
