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Upcycled Chandelier for New Restaurant
Follow the honey! A new restaurant called Tupelo Honey Cafe opened last month in Greenville, SC, and we helped them out with an unusual addition to their interior decor: an upcycled chandelier! Tupelo Honey Cafe started out in Asheville, NC, and it has a couple of locations in Tennessee, but the Downtown Greenville restaurant is the first South Carolina location. ...
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Things We Love Right Now – July 2013
We hope that when our customers buy fine antique furniture, vintage home decor accents, and high-quality reproductions from EuroLuxHome.com, those treasures will become family heirlooms! Heirloom pieces always have a story to tell, and they add so much character to a home. Greg's parents John and Kathy have been hunting out their own family heirlooms to share with us. John...
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Best of June 2013: Summer Celebrations
This beautiful month of June has been all about enjoying celebrations! Father's Day was a highlight, and as we're a family business we were inspired to go on a family photograph treasure hunt for our post dedicated to dads. I also mentioned some gift ideas for fathers in that post. (They'd be great gifts for the favorite men in your...
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Lighten Up! Summer Solstice and Chandelier Lighting
At the summer solstice, we're all enjoying the light for the longest day of the year! Different cultures and countries celebrate the solstice in different ways. In England, crowds gather to watch the sun rise over Stonehenge. In France, they light bonfires for Feux de la Saint-Jean celebrations. But whatever the party, it's all about the light! Source: ewedding.com via...
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Antique Furniture at Historic Tudor Place, Washington, DC
If you love antique furniture and you're planning a trip to Washington, DC this summer (or maybe even over Memorial Day weekend) head to Tudor Place in Georgetown. The National Historic Landmark was built by Martha Washington's granddaughter in 1816, and was home to six generations of Washington's descendents. Now it's open for the public to tour the house and...
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Hand-Crafted Home: Heavily Carved Antique Furniture
It was no surprise to me when I saw a design expert in an issue of Oprah magazine talk about the home decor trend for mixing heavily carved antique furniture with contemporary furnishings. I guess it's no surprise to our customers either! Carved wood buffets, tables, chairs, and other home decor accents are among the most popular items at EuroLuxHome.com...
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Vintage French Sideboard at Home in Maryland
I fall in love with all the antique and vintage furniture that Greg and I select for EuroLuxHome.com. We carefully choose these beautiful pieces from France and elsewhere in Europe, and then (even more carefully!) bring them back to America to share with our customers. Sometimes I want to keep every piece of vintage furniture for myself! Of course I...
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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...
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Color in Your Interior Design
In thinking about interior design colors for the 1920s bungalow we're restoring, I came across this great article at Freshome Design & Architecture: Room Color and How it Affects Your Mood. And then, in a moment of serendipity, an email newsletter from Traditional Home magazine landed in my inbox. The newsletter contains three links to slideshows: Beautiful Rooms Decorated in...
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Best of the Month: November 2012
As November winds down, I thought I'd round up the most popular blog posts of the month, items from our Facebook page, and stuff we loved around the web. Enjoy! Cheap Magazines If you love to read about decorating, you might be interested in this offer from Hearst Magazines (which we originally ran on our Facebook page). Through December 13...
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