The Chinoiserie Dining Room

Brannan Geary - Southern Living

 

This is a lovely classic dining room in a New Orleans home. The hand painted mural on the four walls combines palms and tropical plants in muted greens and browns. The ruby Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a perfect match for the bronze tones in the room like the dramatic silk curtains. 

The Blue and White Dining Room

Bunny Williams

 A lovely dining room with robin's egg blue walls and blue and white Chinese porcelain. Lots of warm browns keep it sophisticated. I love the idea of a large ginger jar (here a blue and white Chinese porcelain vase) on a pedestal. I had resisted doing it because I was living with a very clumsy person. No more! I can do this. I like the idea of a lucite one with a huge blue and white ginger jar. I should have grabbed one when Wisteria was going out of business. Darn.

Brown and White Chinoiserie

Miles Redd - Architectural Digest

Thanksgiving Series - The Chinoiserie Dining Room

Alessandra Branca - House Beautiful

Chocolate brown Chinoiserie wallpaper by Fromental, Louis XVI style dining chairs, and a mahogany dining table combine in this winter garden.

Clarence House - The Vase

Meg Braff

A Bold Chinoiserie Powder Room

Here is a wonderful powder room using the iconic Clarence House The Vase by David Hicks wallpaper in the brown colorway.

Brown Background Wallpaper

I won on eBay 10 unopened rolls of this beautiful Dorothy Draper & Company wallpaper called Birch Trees Brown. The labels say it is "A Carleton Varney Rose Cottage Design 1996." The 10 rolls were $65.00 including shipping. Crazy cheap. I had saved these pictures of rooms with brown background wallpapers that I really liked. I thought my wallpaper would be great in my downstairs hallway that does not have much natural light, but has lots of crisp white doors and woodwork. My paper reminds me a bit of this by Tom Scheerer room below although mine is obviously on a smaller scale. I am going to call my wallpaper hanger to get on his schedule and I will take some before and after shots. I'll be on the lookout for a mirror too. This wallpaper will be a change for me as all my other wallpapers have a white or off white ground.

Tom Scheerer

2013 Hampton Designer Showhouse

Palmer Weiss

Miles Redd

The ceiling is wallpapered too

Saturday Inspiration - Autumn and Chinoiserie

I love the autumn colors of the triple gourd lamp in orange and the small brown turtle shell.

The Pink Chinoiserie Desk

I mentioned in my post on Thursday that when I redo my office, I am thinking about painting my Chinese Chippendale desk pink like Julia's (from Pawleys Island Posh) wonderful coral pink desk in her One Room Challenge. I originally got the idea of a pink desk from this Mary McDonald office above.

Mary McDonald says that she brazenly painted the Chinese desk hot pink and gave it a European style studded linen velvet upholstered top. The room also includes aqua Chinese garden stools and antique turquoise Chinese lamps, as well as lots of Chinese porcelain pieces and foo dogs on the desk. l love the pink and chocolate brown color combination with pops of blue.

The Chinoiserie Bedroom

Lauren Guarcello

A lovely Chinoiserie bedroom with a palette of chocolate brown, orange, white, and blue. Even the trim has been painted a dark brown. A perfect color scheme for a master bedroom - bold and beautiful, but definitely not too feminine. The Chinoiserie toile is Quadrille/China Seas Lyford Print in Blue on Tint.

Brown Walls and Chinoiserie

I came across this photo above and it reminded me of how well brown walls, whether painted or papered, work with Chinoiserie. I love the contrast of the dark brown against white Chinese Chippendale furniture or blue and white Chinese porcelain. I also like it when brown is combined with pink, coral, or orange.

Mary McDonald

Mary McDonald

Mary McDonald

Alessandra Branca

Marsina Stubbs

Jeffers Design Group

Miles Redd

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer 

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer

Coastal Living

Tom Scheerer

Joe Nye

Brown and Chinoiserie

Alessandra Branca

Alessandra Branca

Alessandra Branca

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer

Southern Accents

Southern Accents

Joe Nye

Jay Jeffers Group

Foo Dogs

Marsina Stubbs

Miles Redd

Miles Redd

Miles Redd

Mary McDonald

Mary McDonald

Lonny

Coastal Living

Quadrille China Seas Lyford Background

Thibaut Tea House Fabric and Wallpaper

Judy Cormier