Minggu, 06 Mei 2012

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 Tijdloos Wonen mei-juni-juli 2012COVER 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.

2 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.

 

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

 

8 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).

 

9 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.

 

2012-05-06_102919The 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

Jumat, 04 Mei 2012

my week in Instagram

 Client awesome's house is coming along QUITE nicely!
New drapes are gonna get made...We got a SWEET new entry rug 
AND I am bout to put the smack down on some super radical dining chairs and a dining table...
Whoa ....serious stuff!

look how pretty!








Also here is a VERY VERY small smidgen of the newest member of the Amber Interiors client family

Client Super Sweets


this is just the backyard folks......the house is STUNNING to say the least!!!
It's gonna be one for the books!

Rabu, 02 Mei 2012

New Lease: Fabric Scheme Options

I'm torn about what to do with the sofa area of my new room. I want a white sofa (is this a dangerous idea?), but I need to decide on the fabric options for the upholstered bench and throw pillows. Here are the choices I'm toying with...
 Which do you prefer? The sunny and fun option or the calmer, more feminine scheme?
xox
Tiffany Leigh
Update: The boyfriend weighed in and likes number 1 the best

Pretty Paper

are these not the cutest things you eva did see???





I certainly think they are.....go HERE 

Garden update and beautiful outbuildings

 

Good morning my dear readers! How are you today?

This is my first day of the new working week as we enjoyed a long weekend here in Belgium! Unfortunately the weekend started with some bad weather, it was rather chilly and it rained a lot! We had planned to work in our garden for a few days and although the weather wasn’t excellent, Jan and Anthony started planting boxwood.

17Boxwood plants arrived last week.

 

15Jan and Anthony first planted boxwood hedges in order to become 4 compartments in which the boxwood balls had to be planted.

 

20 Boxwood hedges.

 

Unfortunately they had to wait to plant the boxwood, because the ground was too wet! It had rained too much the earlier days.

So Jan decided to finish some other jobs he had planned to do this weekend.

 

19 He planted small apple trees in the planters at our outbuilding.

 

16 Jan made the planters of oak wood that was left of the boarded oak used to build our garden outbuilding 3 years ago.

 

18 The apple tree in blossom. Isn’t it lovely?

 

We are all looking forward to summertime here in Belgium! We really need sunshine! It is still too cold for the time of the year!

I hope we will soon be able to enjoy our outbuilding!

 

Here are 2 pictures of our outbuilding, taken last year.

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Notice our planters without the apple trees.

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I posted a few favorite images of outbuildings and garden houses here today.

Enjoy!

2 Image source : Beatrix Kleuver

 

9 Image source : Desde My Ventana

 

10 Image source : here

 

6  Image source : here  Photo credit : Emannuel Barbe

 

5 Image source : here  Photo credit : Emannuel Barbe

 

12 Image source : Cottage & Garden via FB

 

4 Image source : here  Photo credit : Stephen Clément

 

11 Source :  here

 

Talk to you soon!

xx

Greet

Selasa, 01 Mei 2012

Discount Time!

So I got my shipment of these amazing runners, morroccan blankets, neon striped throws/tablecloths, and Kantha quilts

I would keep it all...but then I would be broke

So I am here to do two things for you today

1: 

tell you that I am giving away this beauty over on one of my fave blogs 

Gasp Gasp GO QUICK AND ENTER!!!!!


2:

I am giving you all a big fat DISCOUNT CODE!!!!

15% off up until Mother's Day!

enter FAB15 

Here are some of the goodies you could get your pretty little paws on





Spleee-DONK

Paaa-DOOSH

Ba-Ya-Ya-Ya-YOING!

New Lease: Planning the Layout

If you all saw yesterday's post, you know that today, I'm continuing to discuss my new rental!
Here are a few more details:
I move in in September.
I'm sharing a house with five other girls (none of whom I know yet!). We have a common living room, kitchen, dining area, laundry facility and backyard. While I'm sure I'll get along with everyone, I also like my personal space (and I'm not sure they will share my love of watching HGTV 24/7). That's why I'm happy that my room is big enough to create a studio style space that will include my bed area, office area, and own personal living room area.
Last night, I whipped up this floor plan quickly to track my ideas so far:
What do you guys think of this layout? Stay tuned because tomorrow, I'm going to show you my fabric scheme options!
xox Tiffany Leigh
ps. If you need help mapping out a floor plan, send me an e-mail at thedesignerlifestyle@gmail.com. I'd be happy to help!