Outside cold – Inside warmth

“King Winter” is ruling over Belgium at this moment! This weekend he treated us again with lots of snow! I know, I know,.. a lot of traffic misery… but on the other hand, gorgeous picturesque scenery!

We were fortunate to be at home this weekend and enjoyed winter time mostly from inside the house.

We tried to hang some Christmas decoration around the house, but we didn’t atteint that far.

Yesterday afternoon we went Christmas “snow” shopping. In Belgium, this time of the year, shops are open on Sundays.

I want to share with you some pictures I took this weekend from inside our home.

View to our outbuilding.

Again the outbuilding and surrounded garden.

Do you see the whirling snowflakes?

Here on below you can see the Christmas wreaths we hung at the balcony fence and at the entrance gate.

The wreaths are covered with snow! You can hardly see them.

Last week I decorated inside the house.

Here you can see the Christmas decoration in our orangerie.

This year our Christmas tree is standing in the living room.

To warm you up (especially to my readers who live in countries where it is very cold and where it is snowing), I treat you with some pictures of interiors with a warm color palette.

Enjoy!

source : Victoria Hagan via 1dibs

source : unknown

source : Katie Leede

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source : Katie Leede

source : Scot Meacham Wood

source : Study room of Valorie from the blog Visual Vamp

source : Guadarte

source : Valckenborgh

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source : Mires

source : Ray Coggins

source : Mires

source : Decoration Empire

Aren’t they all beautiful and warm?!

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Summer in our garden!

 

Here in Belgium it will be a wonderful long weekend! The weather will be great!!

So I am in the mood for relaxing in our garden !

And…time for a barbecue party!!!

This morning sunshine was early and I couldn’t resist taking some sunny pictures of our garden.

In earlier posts I told you about the landscaping of our garden we started last year and on which we were further working in spring this year.

 

As you can notice we are not finished yet!!!  In the picture above you see the spaces were we have to plant flowers. On the right site I would love to have a lot of old French roses, because roses make me happy! They do! And on the right site, close to the outbuilding I want something else. I am still looking to find the right flowers of plants.

 

We are so happy with the plane-trees we planted last year. Look at them now! They are still very young but won’t they be beautiful within a few years?

Now you can see where we will spend our weekend.

  I asked my friend Trish from TROUVAIS some information about roses because she is a rose lady and she knows a lot about antique French roses. You really should visit her post ANTIQUE FRENCH GARDEN ! Beautiful!

She was so nice mailing me a few of her favorite roses that I posted here beyond.

Thank you so much Trish!

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Trish her favorite is Madame Isaac Pereire, a pink Bourbon rose from the late 19th century. c. 1881

 

Madame Ernest Calvat. c.1888

Or white roses as

Tea Noisette Gloire de Dijon. c.1853

Or

Frau Karl Druschki

So I will think about all these beauties and I will post you later about my choice!

Have a wonderful sunny weekend!

xx

Lefèvre Interiors featured in latest issue of Beta-Plus books

In november 2009 I did a post (here) about the photo-shoot that was taken at my home and I promised to show you the published photos of this shoot. So the shoot and related article of my home is now published in the latest issue of the Beta-Plus books, Contemporary Living with Antiques!!!

Cover of this issue of the Beta-Plus books.

The book is published in Dutch, French and English.

First there is the article about my home and second there is a reportage of the home of a client of our company Lefèvre Interiors.

My home

A Lefèvre Interiors’ client’s home

WWW.LEFEVRE.BE

I am wondering what you will think about it?

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Greet

The outbuilding in our garden

Following my previous post about orangeries, and because some of my readers were interested in the evolution of the outbuilding we started to build the previous year, I decided to give you a glimpse into our garden. I have to say that we started to the garden landscaping in october the passed year, so we (especially my skilful husband!) had done a lot of work the previous weeks and we have to do a lot of work in the coming weeks!!

Honestly, I was planning to show you some pictures of the building within a few weeks, when I would have been ready with the finishing touch of the decoration, but because of the demand of my readers, I couldn’t resist to post a few pictures of how it looks at this moment.

I promise you to post more pictures within a few weeks where you also will see the evolution in our garden.

For those of you who haven’t read my earlier posts about our outbuilding, you can go to see it here, here and here.

Maybe you will remember these pictures of last summer.

 

The start in July 2009 !

 

  My husband is preparing the roof , ready to be thatched.

 

The thatching is going on (September 2009).

The outbuilding as it is today.

 

The planters will need a beautiful tree, maybe an old olive tree??

 

Do you remember the oak table that Jan made for me?

Here she is!!!

The oak is beautifuly weathered, because the table has wintered outside.

 

An old sink of Belgian bluestone.

 

Within a few weeks when the weather is better, I will put the cushions in the chairs (show you pictures of it later).

For the lanterns I was inspired by…

…this image I found at Côte Maison,

And for the wicker chairs I was inspired by…

this image in Veranda.

 

The following pictures are all of the gardening we did the passed weeks.

 

You see that everywhere we have to put flowers and plants now!!

This very old boxwood plant was coming over last week from my mother’s garden! I hope this old lady (?) will enjoy living with us now!

 

The hydrangeas and the oleander are ready for summer!

And this last picture I posted especially for my neighbours Marie-Jeanne and Serge, who are helping us wherever they can with some good advice to gardening! This is their horse, named Carol, and she is grazing in the grazing land next to our home!

She is my favorite!!!

 

Well my friends , if you are wondering why there maybe are lacking a few posts of me in the coming weeks… you will understand… I will be gardening!!!!

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Greet