Flemish Interiors of today

The Flemish interiors of today are characterized by the use of natural (new or recuperation), materials and elements.
Oakwood for furniture and woodpaneling. Parquet, natural stone, terra cotta tiles or brick as flooring materials.
Lime paint on the walls. Linen used as seat upholstery or slipcovers and as curtains fabric.

The interiors of today give you the impression as if they were created a long time ago and never have been changed for years.

Our Belgian designer Axel Vervoordt has been a trendsetter for the look of a lot of these Flemish interiors. Did you know that this week he is named by the British design house Andrew Martin as "Designer of the year 2009" ? If you want to read more about it, you could visit the garvinweasel blog. James, the author of the blog did a post about the nomination (here).

Oak beams for the ceiling, terra cotta tiles.

Lefèvre Interiors

Wicker chairs in the orangerie of Brigitte and Alain Garnier.

Garnier Antiques

Painted wood and terra cotta.

Boulders used as flooring, lime paint.

Natural decorative elements and furniture.
Walda Pairon

Oak table, beautiful decorative elements.

Oak wood for the table top. Notice the table wheels, a glimpse of industrial furniture.
Wooden beams.

Terra cotta tiles.

Parquet floor.

Oakwood paneling and natural stone floor.

Oak parquet, linen, beautiful decorative elements on the wall.

Orac Decor





I wish you a nice Thanksgiving!

xx

Greet

Images with no subscription: Sorry I do not know the source anymore.

Redecorating a corner of your interior

Last Sunday I visited the exhibition Classica in Kortrijk, which is an interior and lifestyle event. Walda Pairon was one of the exhibitors. You all know that she is one of my favourite Belgian decorators and I did an extensive post about her a few weeks ago. You can see it here.

I took a few pictures of her stand that she had decorated wonderfully!!

Click on the first image to enlarge!!!

The fabric used for the table-cover is just gorgeous!

Look at all the beautiful fall colours of the fabric, the flowers, the plants...and notice the colours of the paintings at the background!

Pewter, glass and silver as table decoration.

Walda in conversation with clients.

Bringing in a touch of bright colours seems to be a trademark of Walda.

A beautiful still life.

Walda loves to put flowers between the other decorative items.

Very pure and natural decorative items.

Another wonderful still life that Walda created at her stand.

Two times a year, in winter and in summer time, Walda organizes open house weekends.

If you plan to go to Belgium for the next weeks, you can visit Walda in her beautiful cottage near Antwerp the last weekend of november and the first weekend of december. Read more on www.waldapairon.be.

I hope these pictures inspired you to start redecorating even only a corner of your interior!

xx

Greet

All images : by me