French Country House Style is Very Dashionable Today
posted on 6 January 2012 | posted in
Home and Garden
French country house style is very fashionable at the moment.
I recently visited a lovely small chateau in France which had some great examples of French country house style.
The basement kitchen was full of marvellous, antique copper pans, displayed on an impressive carved oak buffet. In the granite fireplace was a traditional French cast iron range with a cast iron kettle and cast iron cookpots.
Upstairs, the reception rooms had wonderful, traditional French furniture with a stylish grandfather banjo-cased clock in the hallway. The oak fireplace held two large brass candlesticks with a very impressive cast iron firegrate beneath.
Upstairs, in the many bedrooms, were some fabulous cast iron and brass French beds, covered in fine French linen. In the garden were some wonderful granite troughs and copper planters and pretty galvanised pots in the vegetable garden.
It was a wonderful day out and was a great example of the traditional French country house style.
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