Chinoiserie Guest Towels

Trellis Home Design

 

The chinoiserie guest towel can make such an impact in a guest bath/powder room, even in a room like this above with a very dramatic wallpaper. I would love to hear your fave sources for chinoiserie guest towels - monogrammed/embroidered/appliqued. Etsy has many wonderful choices. Here is another great example below.

R Titus Designs

This Week at CCC

Amanda Lindroth

Lots on tap this week. Yesterday I bought a bunch of gorgeous pink bromeliads just like these for the garden. Aren't they pretty? I am planting them this morning.

Pink bromeliads

I did lots in the garden over the weekend and it is looking wonderful.

Hopefully my wallpaper hanger will appear later this week. Sarasota and Venice are hot real estate markets and trades-people are very busy which is a good thing in these uncertain economic times, so I will be patient. But I am super excited about finishing the laundry room and guest bath soon.

The new sink and counter in the guest bath

Amanda Lindroth wicker tray in guest bath

I am starting to put together the guest bedroom this week. It is my staging area for all of the art waiting to be hung, so I won't be able to finish it, but I'll make some progress. I love the Amanda Lindroth bedroom at the top of the post - especially all the orchids. I have a beautiful silver bar cart I am using in there as a bedside table and might style it with orchids. I love all the wicker and rattan - mine will have some, but alas not this fabulous canopy bed.

The Guest Bath and Update

Amy Berry

I made progress this week on my new home on so many fronts. I posted yesterday on plans for the guest bathroom. I stopped by Benjamin Moore for orange paint samples yesterday. There are many that look great with my wallpaper. I will order several samples from Samplize to bring over to the new house to try.

The vanity will be lacquered in orange like the wainscoting. I will change out the counter and sink. I love the looks of this counter above. Does this look dark green or black and does it look like marble or granite? The combination with the orange wallpaper is killer. I want this. I Also love the rectangular sink. I have two beautiful gold mirrors from my previous home that I will try out and see if they might work. I would love to find spots for one or both. The wallpaper pictured here is Coral Monkey Business by Bob Collins and Sons. OMG - is the toilet seat lid actually up in a photo shoot????

Here is another shot - I love the art.

Gray Malin - Mykonos Blue and Orange Umbrellas

Well, I am going on all cylinders here. This week I -

1. Ordered a chandelier for the breakfast room
2. Received the Dana Gibson fixture for the foyer
3. Hired the movers
4. Decided on home insurance
5. Chose the canvas palm tree with all your help
6. Received the gray Samplize paint samples and made a likely choice
7. Chose a sofa for the great room
8. Chose a sofa for the study
9. Decided on lighting for my un dining room
10. Found a couple great items at HomeGoods
11. Figured out how to have a television in the master bedroom and hide it
12. Hunted down two out of stock items from Williams Sonoma that I will pick up today
13. Ordered a really fun rattan piece from Urban Outfitters

I will post on some of these coming up. Let me know if you are interested in seeing any of these and would love your thoughts on the vanity counter above. I hope you all know how much I appreciate and am enjoying all of your comments. It is making this journey more fun and more successful. Thank you.

Chinoiserie Repurposed and Finding the Perfect Orange

Some of you may remember my story from 2010, when a follower of Chinoiserie Chic gave me a head's up that an Etsy seller was selling 15 rolls of Clarence House Chinoiserie Baroque wallpaper for $150.00. A very expensive and discontinued wallpaper BTW. I snatched it up - what a steal!!!!!!!!! and had it hung in my dining room.

I am thrilled to have enough left to do my guest bathroom in the new home.

I  am redoing the lighting and the vanity but that is for another post. Today, the dilemma is I want to keep the wainscoting and have my painter lacquer it in high gloss orange that will go with my wallpaper to be hung above. I need to choose a paint color as they will be starting on July 9th.

Why about Benjamin Moore Racing Orange?

BM Racing Orange 2169 - 10

Or Benjamin Moore 14 Carrots?

BM 14 Carrots CSP - 1110 

Benjamin Moore Orange Blossom?

BM Orange Blossom 2168 - 30

Benjamin Moore Orange Parrot?

BM Orange Parrot 2169 - 20

Benjamin Moore Pumpkin Cream

BM Pumpkin Cream 2168 - 20

This cabinet is lacquered in Pumpkin Cream to give you the idea of the look I am going for.

BD Home and Design

Benjamin Moore Topaz

BM Topaz 070

Here is Topaz in a room. Beautiful!

Ellen Hamilton

The Benjamin Moore App came up with Tandoori.

BM Tandoori CSP - 1105

So, your mission is to help me find an orange BM paint that will work with my wallpaper. I want it to be fun and not too brown and russety and could use your thoughts. It needs to go with the tile and wallpaper and tie everything together. I will order a few Samplize as soon as we find some options. You can weigh in with these I have found or suggest others. BTW, orange is absolutely stunning with blue and white Chinese porcelain.

This could be great with very little $. I plan to have my great stone folks use a granite or quartz remnant for the vanity and top it with a vessel sink and switch out the lighting fixture to something more chic. And I am thrilled to use a paper I loved in my Alexandria home.. I am also having the laundry room wallpapered. I will post on the laundry room too. Stay tuned.......

And the big favorite yesterday was the Royal Palm. Thanks for participating.

P.S. Two additions thanks to two follower's comments - I neglected to say that the vanity will be lacquered in the orange as well. And here's another great orange -

Benjamin Moore Dragon's Blood

BM Dragon's Blood CW - 320

Unexpected Chinoiserie

Robin Gannon - Veranda Magazine

The Kohler clawfoot tub is flanked with a pair of drapery panels rather than a shower curtain. An oversized Chinoiserie pagoda mirror adds drama to this guest bathroom.