Lefèvre Interiors & Natalie Haegeman Interiors featured in Belgian magazine

 

I am pleased and honored to announce that our work is featured in the latest issue of one of the leading Belgian interior design & lifestyle magazines : TIJDLOOS wonen !

About a year ago the Belgian interior designer Natalie Haegeman asked our company Lefèvre Interiors for help to realize a library project she designed for one of her clients. Both, Natalie and I, were enthusiastic about this project and now we are proud to show you the result of our teamwork.

The library is made of French oak, not treated, which will give the cabinetry a used, natural patina.

This is a picture of the finished library, decorated by Natalie ! This is one of the featured pictures in the latest issue of the magazine TIJDLOOS wonen.

Image source : Belgian Interior Design & Lifestyle Magazine TIJDLOOS wonen Nov-Dec-Jan 2013-2014 - Photography Claude Smekens

 

For more information :  WWW.LEFEVRE.BE       WWW.NATALIEHAEGEMAN-INTERIORS.BE

 

I would love to thank the entire team of the magazine TIJDLOOS wonen for this featuring. A special thank you to our renown Belgian photographer Claude Smekens for the gorgeous photos !

Cover Belgian magazine TIJDLOOS wonen Nov-Dec-Jan 2013-2014

This latest issue counts a lot of interesting articles with beautiful inspiring pictures as the featuring about the Christmas decorated home of our Belgian designer Walda Pairon.

The cover of this issue of TIJDLOOS wonen shows the Christmas decorated living room in Walda’s house.

Image source : Magazine TIJDLOOS wonen Nov-Dec-Jan 2013-2014 - Photography Claude Smekens.

 

This latest issue of the magazine TIJDLOOS wonen is now on the Belgian magazine stands !

I wish you all a wonderful fall weekend !

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Greet

If you would like us to help realizing your library project, feel free to contact us at info@lefevre.be

For more Lefèvre Interiors realisations visit our website at www.lefevre.be

A Family Affair

 

‘A Family Affair’  this is how the story about a Lefèvre Interiors project featured in the latest issue of the Belgian interior design & lifestyle magazine TIJDLOOS, is titled. The story tells about how my sister and I worked together to bring the interior design and decoration of her new build home to a good end.

I do know that a lot of you, my readers, will not be able to understand the Dutch written text. I am so sorry for that! But I do know that on the basis of the pictures, you will be able to follow the story.

 COVER OF THE BELGIAN INTERIOR & LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE TIJDLOOS , issue may-june-july 2012

 

I told you earlier about the photoshoot at my sisters’s home here, when I posted about our Belgian photographer Claude Smekens, who took all of the pictures for this report.

Today, I love to show you a few pages of the featuring.

The text above tells about my sister Inge and me (yes that’s us here) growing up in a family of which father managed an interior design business and of which mother had a wonderful eye for decorating the family home.

 ‘Sense for beauty and harmony sneaks into your blood, and that is something that Inge & Greet Lefèvre prove over and over again.’, is to read here.

Further on you can read that we both have a similar taste in interior design which I confirm by telling the story about a table I discovered in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in France a few years ago and of which I immediately knew that this was the table I wanted to bring into my sister’s home! I made a picture of the table with my cell phone and sent it to Inge. A few minutes later, the table was bought and only a few days later, the table was placed at her home.

 

Entry hall    Text here : ‘ Greet : The atmosphere here reminds me of that of a French country house, casual but always stylish and elegant.’

 

All kitchen cabinetry and furniture (even the kitchen island stools) are designed by me and all made at the ateliers of Lefèvre Interiors.

Don’t you love the Swedish chairs around the breakfast table? I found them at Swedish Antiques (Antwerp).The blue linen tablecloth is made to measure by Natalie Haegeman (Brasschaat).

 

Living room

 

All pictures in this featuring : CLAUDE SMEKENS FOTOGRAFIE http://www.claudesmekens.be

Interior design by LEFEVRE INTERIORS

 

A huge thank you to Ilse Merckx, the editor in chief of TIJDLOOS WONEN for featuring a Lefèvre Interiors’ project in this prestigious magazine; a special thank you to Martine Wauters for the appropriate text and also a huge thank you to the photographer Claude Smekens and his wife Magda for shooting the most gorgeous pictures. And last but not least, a huge thank you to my sister Inge and her husband Dominique for allowing us to do this photoshoot of their home.

 

The May-June-July issue is now for sale at your bookshop in Belgium and Holland. Click on logo of the magazine to find more information.

 

I hope you enjoyed this report of my sister’s home.

TO SEE THE FULL REPORT, CLICK HERE.

Enjoy this Sunday!

xx

Greet

Asking all my readers and friends for a favor ! I do need your help !

 

My dearest readers and friends, I would love to ask you for a favor ! I do need your help!!

The Belgian online magazine Knack Weekend is holding a contest in order to award the most popular Belgian blogs!

I would love to ask everyone of you who loves my blog BELGIAN PEARLS and who might think that my blog deserves a blog

award as one of the best Belgian blogs,  please visit the page of the Knack Weekend magazine HERE

and please answer only a few questions in order to nominate my blog for the Knack Weekend blog award !

It will only takes a few seconds of your time.

http://weekend.knack.be

Deadline is April 15 !

On April 23 the nominated blogs will be announced !

 

 

I know the announcement is written only in Dutch and in French but I will translate for you the questions that have to be answered.

Here we go!

Jouw voornaam = Your first name

Jouw naam = Your last name

Jouw e-mailadres = Your email address

Blog URL = blog URL of Belgian Pearls = http://belgianpearls.blogspot.com/

Twitteraccount : is an option (no need to fill in)

Waarover gaat deze blog = What about is this blog   =>  You only have to mark the field Deco/Design

Vertel ons waarom je deze blog leuk vindt =  Do tell us why you love this blog    => You try to explain why you love Belgian Pearls in a few words (only 250 characters)  

If you are done, you only have to click on VERSTUREN = SEND

 

Dutch written version  :   HERE

 

Pour mes lecteurs et amis francophones, vous pouvez vous addresser à la page écrite en français : ICI

French written version

 

So please, can I ask you to go to the Knack Weekend page : HERE (Dutch written page)  or  HERE (French written page).

I would be very gratefull to you all!!

Don’t forget : deadline April 15.

Thank you so much!!!!

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Beste lezers en vrienden, ik zou u heel graag om een dienst willen vragen! Ik heb jullie hulp nodig!!

Het Belgische online tijdschrift Knack Weekend organiseert een wedstrijd om de beste Belgische blogs te nomineren en een award toe te kennen.

Mag ik u vragen, indien u mijn blog graag leest en u vindt dat BELGIAN PEARLS een nominatie en ook een award toekomt, naar de online pagina te surfen en enkele gegevens te willen invullen.  Ik zou u allen zeer dankbaar zijn!

Link : HIER

Dank aan allen!!!!

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Chers lecteurs et amis, je voudrais vous demander un service ! J'ai besoin de votre aide!!

Le magazine belge Knack/le Vif Weekend en ligne organise un concours pour nominer les meilleurs blogs belges et de les accorder un award.

Puis-je vous demander, si vous aimez bien lire mon blog et si vous trouvez que BELGIAN PEARLS mérite une nomination et un award, veuillez

s’addresser à la page en ligne pour remplir les choses demandées.

Je serais très reconnaissante à vous tous !

Link : ICI

Merci à tous!!!!

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I do hope a lot of you will support me !!!

Thank you!

xx

Greet

An important appeal to all of my readers and friends!

Some of you will have discovered on my blog the article about my home that was featured in the Belgian Interior & Lifestyle Magazine Tijdloos, Spring issue 2010. As Jan and me have decided to advertise in the next issue of this magazine, issue Autumn 2011, I would love to ask for your advice!!

Yes my friends, this is very important to me because it is a paid ad!!

Today I tried to make a lay-out of the ad with the help of the photofiltre app on my PC.

As a lot of my interior design colleagues will know, it’s always so hard to choose the right pictures for an ad! Always discussion and different thoughts !

Which pictures are the most appropriate to present our company and do we have to choose for two or three or only one picture on the ad?!

That’s why I would love to ask for your advice!!

To give you any idea of the character and content of this Magazine, I would love to ask you to click on the image of the cover of this Belgian Magazine Tijdloos.

You will find out for what this magazine stands for.

And if you are interested in reading (so sorry it is written only in Dutch) or watching the pictures of the article about my home, click on the image on below.

Cover Belgian Interior & Lifestyle Magazine TIJDLOOS, Spring 2010.

Click on image above to discover the article featuring my home in the Magazine Tijdloos Spring issue 2010.

AD Lefèvre Interiors Magazine Tijdloos, Spring 2010

As there is a deadline to deliver the chosen pictures for this AD, I would love to ask you to look at the 12 options that I posted here and to let me know your choice before Sunday, the 10th of July, Midnight Central European Time!

Could you do that for me please?! This would be a big support and help! Believe me!

And there is more! If you let me know which option is the most appealing to you, by posting a comment on this post only (no emails, no facebook comments or twitters!! – I can’t organize it anymore!), you will have the chance to win one the 5 copies of the issue where we will add our AD.

By making your choice, it could be helpful to visit the website of my company LEFEVRE INTERIORS to learn more of my company’s work.

And please keep in mind that this AD will be published in the AUTUMN issue 2011.Your choice can definitely be influenced by considering this.

This issue is to find in the Belgian bookshops from August the 5th on.

So my dear friends, all you have to do is to choose one of the 12 options I posted here and to let me know which one could be your favorite!

All kind of criticism are welcome.

For my not Dutch speaking readers : The saying on the ad “Vakmanschap maakt meesterschap” =

“Craftsmanship makes mastership”

There you go!!

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Option 5

Option 6

Option 7

Option 8

Option 9

Option 10

Option 11

Option 12

Remember, all you have to do is posting a comment on this post (no emails, no facebook comments or twitters) before Sunday the 10th of July, Midnight Central European Time, and you will have the chance to win 1 of the 5 copies of this Belgian Interior & Lifestyle Magazine TIJDLOOS, issue Autumn 2011.

I do hope that even all of my Belgian readers will leave a comment because I am sure they all know this Belgian Magazine!

I would be very grateful to you all!

xx

Photo credits : Claude Smekens, Efie De Grande, Jo Pauwels,