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Thanks to all those who left great feedback on the dado walls post.
Really appreciated. You asked for more images and inspiration on the panelling … enjoy x
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Bathrooms are probably my favorite room for dado walls. Such a nice change / contrast to the coldness of tiles.
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Also, as bathrooms are generally smaller than we would like them to be, the dado panelling allows you to introduce a real colour whilst leaving a large section white.
This always makes a room look bigger and brighter.
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The dado wall generally intersects your windows below the half way mark.
This also draws more attention to the windows …always a good thing.
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Older style panelling is my favorite. A little less beachy, with a little more character, and the older panelling often has a cool, usable ledge.
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Which is not to say you can’t get that with normal wall panelling lengths.
You just use a wider beading at the top as they have here.
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Dado walls in bedrooms can turn a very boring square into a gorgeous place to sleep. And it doesn’t cost that much to do. Given that you’re painting it, you can use normal thin pine planks which are not expensive. Nor is it a hard carpentry job…so you can give it go or get a quote from a carpenter (which again shouldn’t be much).
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In a larger room like a lounge room, they add great character as a backdrop to your freestanding furniture. Floor lamps, lounge suites, occasional tables, chairs…they all look better framed by panelling than against flat plaster.
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Love this!! With such high ceilings the choice of wallpaper is fantastic…
but largely because it’s interrupted by the white panelling well before it hits the floor.
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This is a little too pastel for me… but it is pretty, and it shows that a dado wall can successfully bring three colour elements into a room without looking busy as each colour follows its own architectural line.
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Lastly…dado walls, on a very practical level, are great in hallways. Wood panelling can put up with a lot more rough treatment than plaster can.
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Love the walls, the tiles, the doors, the clock, the chair, the gumboots…
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Stained glass can be so beautiful. I grew up a Catholic and found mass slightly less than boring by staring at the gorgeous colours. With the really dense patterns, there was never enough actual light coming in though. The subject matter was a little dark too… This beautiful pair of high windows has a sweet pattern. The colour is focused on the red border, leaving loads of natural light still coming through. Highlighting the gorgeous traditional features of the room with the stained glass, wallpaper etc, and combining them with contemporary furnishings has resulted in a really timless look.
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Love the simplicity of this glass. The tiny coloured squares are gorgeous and totallty highlight the lovely old windows.
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Not quite as simple as the squares….but these windows are absolutely beautiful.
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This image is a perfect example of what a good stained glass window can do. Beautifully designed for the space, with a pretty and simple pattern, this window transforms what could be a very boring home office.
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Traditionally, residential stained glass is mostly at the front door, and this is a very nice example of that. Giving great colour and interest to the front door…this design still allows for loads of natural light to come in.
ps. love the floor tiles.
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My favorite I think… How cute is that?
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The floorboards, the windows, the cornices, the open fire, the fabulous chairs…this room has everything.
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This mantle is stunning …
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The perfect couch for such a gorgeous spot. I love the statue and the wee panel of stained glass.
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Of course if I owned this house I would also be quite the pianist…
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“A guide to all things hip and retro”. Loving this site! For anyone who likes the Retro style, this is a site you’ll keep going back to. Filled with hundreds of fab retro pieces and links direct to each seller. Regular articles…galleries for inspiration….even an ebay watch which finds retro pieces up for auction and critiques them…this is a pretty cool website.
A selection of really cool, freightable (yep..it’s a UK based site…) stuff for you…..
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It’s probably Monty Python that makes me find all references to spam hilarious…this tea towel is ace.
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Roy Lichtenstein’s images will never go out of fashion…they’re just way too cool. These Pop Art cushions from Dwell, with the stylised classic hero and heroine, are great.
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…you’ve got to love a vinyl tablecloth.
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These printed roller blinds can be made to your measurements. The images are magazine covers( mainly from the 1920′s and 30′s) from an archive at the Mary Evans Picture Library ….love them.
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Hooks are the bomb…and these are dead cute.
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And finally…my favorite product on the site. A really cute and quirky take on the on the old favorite, Three Ducks Flying. And they come with velcro dots for easy hanging…clever.
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Lace is back! Well, nearly. The perfect one is still not that easy to find, but when you do it can transform a room…
One beautiful option that is easy to get is Laura Ashley’s gorgeous Summer palace cream lace panel ( see image above and below).
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The image below…that I’ve used before… also has a Laura Ashley lace panel (stunning!), but it’s no longer available online.
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Then, there’s vintage…
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The layers of vintage lace on this bed look amazing…and how great is the bed head?? Just a few planks of wood whitewashed – too easy.
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Jane Sacchi is really worth keeping an eye on as her stock is gorgeous and constantly changing. Her vintage lace trimmed bedlinen is utterly beautiful.
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Or, of course, have another sunday in the antique shops.
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There are quite a lot of vintage lace table cloths out there (just be sure to check the whole piece for any discolouration or damage) and they can make the ugliest table look sweet.
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These angel lace trimmed runners are so pretty…a really sweet detail to break up the monotony of white boards, white coffee table, white chair.
Finally…two uses of lace that I just love.
One for the kids…It’s a happy little girl who has this cubby house.
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And one for you … Love the heavy French lace.
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Loving Georgian windows!!!
The Georgian style is understated elegance, with a traditional, stately look defined by symmetry.
A little history for you…
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Georgian architecture of the 18th century is influenced by classical Greece and Rome more so than any other period of English architecture. Any of you who love your period movies or novels would know the “Grand Tour” of Europe that the youth of the English aristocracy would take to “finish” their education. This inspired a whole generation of young and wealthy men to return to England and build gorgeous Georgian houses, complete with loads of fabulous Georgian windows…
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Georgians are generally sash windows, with thin wooden bars dividing standardised panes of glass, thus maximising the amount of light coming into the home.
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I find I generally don’t like the modern versions of Georgian houses in Australia…but the windows are always gorgeous, expansive and elegant.
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Our grandmothers used heavy lace curtains, flanked by full block out curtains, to allow light in and still give privacy…but man… were they heavy. I’d rather be able to see at least some of my view, and if my privacy was compromised a bit…well then I’d just stay dressed!
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During my years of residential styling I’ve chucked hundreds of “sheers” out… but they weren’t sheer!! Badly named, and badly hung! Generally these were densely patterned lace strung along a plastic tube that didn’t allow for the fabric to be drawn back.
Sheer should still give a sense of the outside, and allow loads of light to come through…not just specks fighting their way through a heavy lace pattern. This is not to say that lace curtains aren’t fantastic (blog on same on its way!)…but it needs to be a soft sparse pattern to do its job without giving a real heaviness to the room. Block out is provided by a good blind behind the curtain.
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These images are what sheer curtains are all about. Soft, pretty and allowing a ton of light through.
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This is absolutely my favorite look and what I plan to have. Wide, beautiful verandahs with open frech doors and sweet sheers blowing in the wind.
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Sheers are also a great way to divide a room without losing your sense of space (p.s how amazing is this chair! I just wish they’d used a more ornate mirror to complete the look), and can do the job for many styles. It works brilliantly with this quite sophisticated and masculine look, and is even better, I think, with the more relaxed and earthy Moroccan feel of the bedroom below.
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A big tip with sheers…wash ‘em! There’s nothing worse than sheers that are dulled by years of dust. The same of course applies to all curtains, but it’s crucial with sheers.
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This London bedroom is the closest thing I’ve found to my next bedroom. Of course, windows are key, you’d be hard pressed to get the same effect with plain windows, and these floor to ceiling Georgian windows are stunning. Teamed with my favorite window treatments…sheer white curtains. There are so many things I love about this image it’s probably goingto be easier to say the things I would change, so…
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I love, love love the leaning mirror, but I’m not a gold girl so that would be silver… but just as large and ornate. Similarily I would change the gold frames over the bed to one thin black one and one quite wide and ornate white one. This would dilute the symmetry of the room … something I’m always compelled to do.
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I would have a much larger rug with a softer, more bedroom look and feel to it (crucial to a bedroom working is warm toes when you get out of bed!). It would also be much darker and with a bit of a textural pattern to ground the look a little more…probably something like this..
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Instead of this quite small chandeleir…I would find a fab vintage one…much denser and bigger. That, with the larger, darker rug, and the dark framed print above the bedside would give the room more substance.
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Walk in robes are the best house idea since the indoor loo…so I would have floor to ceiling gorgeous old Moroccan or Kashmiri style doors like the ones below…but white, with the walk in running along behind the fireplace.
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Finally, I would add just a little more detail on the bed with some patterned pillow cases…and voila!, along with a live-in maid, my perfect bedroom.
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Ria FitzGerald has worked as an interior stylist in Melbournes inner east for the past twelve years.
Now based on the Bellarine Peninsula, Ria continues to offer in-home styling consultations for both the visual and the practical elements of your home, renovation and colour consulting and event styling.
Rias work can be seen featured regularly in Home Beautiful Magazine.
\"The I want I want I want! blog is a weekday (ish!) update with reviews of the best online homewares shopping, styling tips, peeks into my favorite homes and commentary on design, interiors and art.
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