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What a surprise!!!

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I was so surprised, but oh so pleased when my friend Céline, of the French blog Céline Chollet Aquarelles, emailed me that she had a surprise for me and that I had to visit her blog to discover what the surprise was!

Céline had to make some aquarels for a new exhibition in the Musée d'Art Naïf de Noyers-sur-Serein (http://www.noyers-et-tourisme.com) and she decided to make an aquarel of my orangery because the warm color palette and the sober character of the Belgian interiors inspired her, she told on her blog.

Can you imagine how surprised I was landing at her blogpage and discovering this most beautiful aquarel of my orangery?!!

Can you believe Céline realised her aquarel using only a few pictures of my orangery of which I posted some pictures once?!

Here you see some of the pictures Céline had filed on her computer.

Céline behind her desk, working at the aquarel of my orangery.

And this is the finished aquarel of our orangery!!! Isn’t it amazing??!! I just love it!!

To read Céline’s post about the aquarel, click on logo of Céline Chollet Aquarelles.

If you don’t know Céline yet, you really should visit Céline’s beautiful blog and discover her most amazing aquarels at http://wwwboitedaquarelles.blogspot.com/

So I am a lucky person to have a friend as Céline! And I do hope to meet her in person one day!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH CELINE !!! You are a wonderful friend!

Wish you all a wonderful and happy weekend!

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Placards & a quick garden update

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French Provencal style

Gardens

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placards

First of al I want to thank you my readers for the nice comments on my garden post! I am so pleased with your interest in the evolution of our garden. So nice to read your thoughts about it! Thank you! I so appreciate it!

We really enjoyed spending this long weekend in our garden and Jan has created the steps I loved to have since a long time, he added more gravel on the paths and started to prepare our future vegetable garden. Here are some pictures I took yesterday.

Now we have to plant some more of the hedges on both sides of the steps.

Adding gravel.

Preparing our future vegetable garden.

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And now over to the “placard” post.

A “placard” is a cupboard or wardrobe attached to the wall, or even built in in the masonry. I have always loved to see a placard in a room, especially the French provencal style placard.

New-made or antique placards, both can be beautiful and can be used in different rooms.

Love the way of displaying the china here in both sitting areas. Notice the led lighting inside!

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source : Tim Clinch

Cupboard placard in this dining room.

source : here photo credit Francis Peyrat

Even used as a bookcase. Love that!!

source : Magazine Riant Wonen, issue 2002, Renoveren in Stijl. Renovation company Renoplan.

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Love the old patina of the placard doors here in both pictures.

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This placard is placed in one of my favorite Belgian restaurants “Onder de Toren”. They serve very delicious food and it is a very charming and cosy place to be! (check their website : here).

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source : here photo credit Patrick Smith

A placard is not only used in dining or living rooms! It is a wonderful piece of furniture brought into the kitchen!

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A corner cupboard placard!

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I love the mix of wooden and painted placard doors in this kitchen.

source : Magazine MTC , issue 2010-5

Oak placards in this very Belgian styled kitchen.

source : here photo credit Jo Pauwels for Beta Plus Publishing

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One of my favorite pictures! If I had to redo my kitchen, I definitely would go for this kind of kitchen by Pamela Pierce. source : here photo credit Peter Vitale

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Placards used as wardrobe in a bedroom.

source : here photo credit Patrice Binet

So very French and romantic!

source : here photo credit Alexandre Réty

Shutter doors used here!

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A placard with mirrored doors in an entry hall.

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Placard de vestiaire in the entry hall of my home. Photo credit Efie De Grande

I found an interesting address in the south of France where you will discover gorgeous antique placards and all kinds of beautiful doors :

PORTES ANCIENNES

These (images of website Portes Anciennes) are a few of the range of antique placards they offer.

Beautiful walnut armoire de chasse placard.

Bow-fronted walnut placard.

Placard in pine.

Placard of shutters.

Click on logo to visit the Portes Anciennes website.

So for those who travel to the Provence this summer, this company is definitely worth a visit!

I wish you all a fresh start of this new week.

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A long weekend in our garden!

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Flowers

Gardens

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As we have a long weekend here in Belgium and the weather forecast is very promising, we certainly will enjoy our garden!

Tomorrow Jan will finish some jobs that have to be done in our garden. He wil lay bricks for a flight of steps, add some gravel to the paths and will start the lay out of our vegetable garden! But that’s for tomorrow! Today we will relax and enjoy our garden.

So I decided to share with you some pictures of our garden I took the passed weeks.

We moved in our house 4 years ago (June 2007) and we are very pleased to watch growing all the flowers, plants and trees we planted the passed years.