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 !

xx

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

For the love of Linen – Belgian Libeco Linen Rugs

 

I can’t hide I do have a preference for linen !  I love to use linen in clients projects, as in this living room I nearly finished.

I might think that our renowned Belgian decorator & antiques dealer Axel Vervoordt has influenced a lot of us, designers, to bring in linen fabrics in our projects. He introduced us, in particularly, to the world of the slipcovered seats. And I have to admit, I wasn’t immune to this gorgeous new look !

For my client’s living room here, I have chosen linen fabrics for the window treatment as well as for the seat upholstery. Linen provides a full range of colors. You can be sure to find that subtle shade you are looking for. As to notice here in this living room, I was looking for a particular color shade for the bergère upholstery to have a match with the old rose marble color of the antique chimney piece. And I found this lilac shade of Belgian linen in the collection of our Belgian company LF-Trading.

 

I am currently looking for a linen rug to bring in here.

Interior design Greet Lefèvre for Lefèvre Interiors - Paneling & seating furniture Lefèvre Interiors - Window treatment Natalie Haegeman Interiors - Linen fabric for curtains and blinds C&C Milano - Belgian linen for seat upholstery Lf-Trading  (Photo by me)

 

Today, I would love to introduce you to the beautiful 100% Belgian linen rugs by the Belgian linen company LIBECO.

This Libeco linen carpet, has a more rustic look, combining old green with chalk, old red and blue.

This Penny Lane rug could work in this room up here !

Libeco Penny Lane rug 100% Belgian linen

 

 

Belgian architect Frederique Glorieux

This Libeco Big Wave rug could be an alternative to bring into the room above. The design of this rug is inspired by vintage surf boards.

Libeco Big Wave rug 100% Belgian linen

 

 

Living room in a Belgian country house.  Source Homes & Gardens Magazine FB Page - Photo credit Mark Luscombe-Whyte

Linen rugs in neutral colors work beautifully in nearly every room in the house. My personal choice of rug for this living room up here : Libeco Portobello Road carpet, in flax or gray.

Libeco Portobello Road rug 100% linen

 

 

Interior design Greet Lefèvre for Lefèvre Interiors - Seating furniture Lefèvre Interiors - Belgian linen for seat upholstery Lf-Trading -  Belgian Libeco linen for curtains - Kelim cushions Natalie Haegeman Interiors  (Photo credit Montse Garriga)

This fall I would love to see the Libeco Cambridge rug on the floor of our orangery. One of the Cambridge rug’s colors will certainly match the linen upholstery and Kelim cushions.

Libeco Cambridge rug 100% linen

 

For more information about all LIBECO rugs, please visit the LIBECO website HERE.

Or browse the latest LIBECO CATALOGUE HERE.

 

LIBECO catalogue

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LEFEVRE INTERIORS for more information, contact info@lefevre.be

NATALIE HAEGEMAN INTERIORS for more information, contact info@nataliehaegeman-interiors.be 

LF-TRADING for more information, contact info@lftrading.be

LIBECO for more information, consumer contact here ; wholesale contact here

 

 

xx

Greet

Three designers with their own kind of lamp shades

 

The interiors of Walda Pairon, Pam Pierce and Natalie Haegeman are trademarked with their personal  lamp shade design.

Paying attention to the design of lamp shades is probably a distinctive mark of female designers.

 

Belgian interior designer Walda Pairon loves to work with trapezium shaped lamp shades.

Walda Pairon

Walda Pairon  Photo credit Claude Smekens

Walda Pairon  Picture by me

Walda Pairon  Picture by me

Walda Pairon  Picture by me

 

Rectangular shades are noticed in the interiors of American designer Pam Pierce.

Pam Pierce  Photo credit Peter Vitale

Pam Pierce  Photo credit Peter Vitale

Pam Pierce  Photo credit Peter Vitale

Pam Pierce  Photo credit Peter Vitale

Pam Pierce  Photo credit Laura Resen for Veranda

 

Pleated, handsewn lamp shades are the trademark of Belgian designer Natalie Haegeman.

Natalie Haegeman

Natalie Haegeman

Natalie Haegeman

Natalie Haegeman

Natalie Haegeman

What is your favorite kind of lamp shade?

 

Enjoy the weekend!

xx

Greet

French oak library

 

About a year ago I posted about a custom made library (HERE) that was designed by Natalie Haegeman of Natalie Haegeman Interiors and realized by our company Lefèvre Interiors.

Although the library is installed since more than half a year, we hadn’t yet found the time to take some photographs of this project.

The library is recently photographed to appear in a Belgian interior design magazine. Although these pictures here today aren’t the ones of the magazine’s professional photographer, they already give you a sneak peek into the library room.

Library in French non-treated oak

 

One of the built in bureau-desks

 

Detail and view towards the living room

All pictures by Natalie Haegeman

I am pleased and honored to tell you that this library project will be seen in one of the next issues of the leading Belgian interior design magazine ‘TIJDLOOS’.

I definitely will let you know when the issue is out !

Cover of the current issue of TIJDLOOS (N° 27 - april 2013)

 

For more information, please contact

info@lefevre.be

WWW.LEFEVRE.BE

info@nataliehaegeman-interiors.be

WWW. NATALIEHAEGEMAN-INTERIORS.BE

 

Talk to you soon !

Greet

 

If you would like us to help designing and manufacturing your library, feel free to contact us at info@lefevre.be

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

White Rooms in Bruges

 

 

The past weekend the charming guesthouse ‘White Rooms in Bruges’ opened its doors.

My friend Natalie Haegeman of Natalie Haegeman Interiors is the lady behind this gorgeous brand new guesthouse in Bruges, the most romantic city of Belgium.

Combining her passion for interior design with her fascination for historic buildings, Natalie restored this typical Bruges house, respecting the original features, and created a uniquely charming environment that she wanted to share with her guests.

White Rooms in Bruges

 

Bruges by night

As an interior designer Natalie has decorated the rooms of her guesthouse in the most wonderful way. She made of White Rooms the most cosiest guesthouse of Bruges, decorated in the typical Belgian style.

Let us take a look inside the house.

The living room with an open fire place and original oak floor. As you can see Natalie’s dog Billie definitely feels at home!

Who wouldn’t love to sit here, curled up with a good book, having a glass of wine, after an inspiring walk in the city of Bruges?

 

The kitchen, with its Belgian limestone floor, is completely decorated in the Belgian style.

Even a small Aga cooker is at your disposal!

Beautiful kitchen table and table lamp.

Natalie is renown for her hand made lampshades. She offers a wide range of hand made lampshades, for sale in her webshop here.

Notice the beautiful pottery and wicker baskets.

 

I so love this view from the living room towards the kitchen.

 

The guesthouse has a small terrace that Natalie decorated with garden pots and wooden barrels.

 

The living room is decorated with antique furniture and objects. Paintings are of the artist Jean-Marc Louis, for sale in Natalie’s webshop here.

 

Let’s go upstairs to see the bedrooms of the guesthouse.

The house can accomodate 4 people who will be torn between choices of these 2 beautiful decorated bedrooms!

Both rooms are painted white and decorated with accents of celadon.

First bedroom

 

 

What a gorgeous idea to hang this group of wicker trays above the bed here!

 

Second bedroom

 

All bed linen available at Natalie Haegeman Interiors.

 

Love this bathroom with the marble topped bath, placed in an alcove.

 

As no other Natalie knows exactly how to choose the right fabrics for every single room.

 

A Suzani tablecloth on the table in the dining room.

 

‘White’ flowers, of course!

 

Not to forget to mention that a bike is at your disposal.

If you are planning to visit Bruges and if you want to know how it feels to live in a house completely decorated in the Belgian style, then WHITE ROOMS IN BRUGES is your place to be!

Or maybe you might think about surprising friends or family with a weekend stay in Bruges… ? WHITE ROOMS will offer them a memorable stay.

 

For online reservations click HERE.

www.white-rooms.be

Niewe Gentweg 94

8000 BRUGGE

Belgium

info@white-rooms.be

 

Next to all the historic monuments, gardens and picturesque streets that the medieval city of Bruges has to offer, this guesthouse really is a fine acquisition!

 

White Rooms in Bruges, guesthouse by Natalie Haegeman 

www.white-rooms.be

www.nataliehaegeman-interiors.be

 

I wish you a wonderful stay!!!

xx

Greet

 

Images with permission of Natalie Haegeman