Ohhh... I love wood walls and the character they bring to a home!
Bead board. Board and Batten. Grooved knotty pine like we have in our cottage...
Love them.
There is something about walls that have details in their structure-
it brings so much character and charm to a space.
My absolute favorite type of wall is called
Boiserie.
Boiserie.
Those carved, appliqued, painted, detailed, gilded, oh my gosh over the top beautiful walls...
I LOVE them.
If you aren't familiar with Boiserie here are some examples:
(Images from Google)
From Wikipedia:
often used in the plural boiseries) is the term used to define ornate and intricately carved wood panelling.
Early examples of boiseries were unpainted, but later the raised mouldings were often painted or gilded.[citation needed]
Boiseries were popular in seventeenth and eighteenth century French interior design and the Palace of Versailles has many fine examples.[citation needed] The panels were not confined to just the walls of a room but were used to decorate doors, frames, cupboards and shelves also. Often pictures would be set into the boiseries, the carving framing the picture rather like a conventional frame.
So...
after I made that simple ribbons and bows accent the other day....
as I was photographing it on that little table...
an idea popped into my head.
An Inspired thought?
Maybe...
Or it might possibly simply be just another crazy wild woman project
:)
I have a beautiful antique French wardrobe armoire that was out in the little cottage before my oldest son
moved out there.
I had originally painted it pink and cream with gilding... beautiful but needless to say
Ryan didn't really want that big old pink armoire in his 'man cave.'
So it was disassembled and moved and stored
As I was photographing that appliqued piece... I thought about beautiful Boiserie panels...
& doors as backdrops and decoration
& the doors on that French Armoire came to mind.
They are subtly detailed. So simple but elegant.
hmmm...
I wondered...
I grabbed the 2 outer doors from the armoire and set them together
and set the appliqued piece on top.
The board actually fit perfectly atop the doors- strangely enough and so
I grabbed my paint brush and several different paints and painted away while dancing to Pink
I grabbed my paint brush and several different paints and painted away while dancing to Pink
Then I stood back to see how it turned out
&
sighed.
Ohhh...
A perfect frenchy backdrop for photographs
or for simply a leaning against a wall
or maybe even to bring a little french charm to
somewhere else I have in mind
;)
It's not as over the top knock your socks off gorgeous as real boiserie by far
but I think it turned out charming.
I'm kinda loving it.
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