Reupholstered bergère

 

A lot of us have an old furniture piece somewhere that we either don’t like anymore or that doesn’t match with the rest of our décor.

A client of mine had an antique French small Louis XV bergère that didn’t fit their new, more contemporary, home interior, and asked me what to do with it.

The floral damask fabric was totally damaged, so we needed to reupholster the bergère. At this moment we are finishing the interior design of the house and for all of the fabrics we prefered to choose for tones of blues and greys.

The antique bergère with damaged damask fabric.

 

The framework of the bergère is painted in white/gray with a shade of blue.

 

Because I knew that my client had her doubts about choosing to reupholster the bergère with either a classic or a more contemporary fabric, I suggested to use 2 different fabrics.

A floral patterned fabric for the frontside and the seat cushion and a checkered fabric for the backside of the bergère.

In the composition of both fabrics, 30% to 50% linen is used.

ARISTIDE Flax Cedar Sky

 

ARISTIDE Flax Vancouver Sky

 

We finished the upholstery with a traditional trimming.

JAB trimming Engadin

 

The reupholstered bergère, ready to move to our client’s home!

 

 

 

 

I have always loved the small French bergères, they have a feminine look and they fit in several rooms.

I show you a few examples of small bergères placed in different rooms of the house.

 

In the entry hall.Source here

 

In the kitchen.Source here

 

In the living room.Source here

 

In the bedroom.Source here

 

In a dressing room.Source here

 

In a library or study room.Lefèvre Interiors Source here

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There are many different ways to embellish a French bergère.

You can choose for a more feminine and romantic fabric as the one here of the KATE FORMAN collection.Kate Forman Source here

Or you can opt for a plain fabric in combination with a patterned fabric.Source here

Or a velvet upholstered bergère.Source here

Do you love the French bergères? I do hope I inspired you to make the right choice to upholster yours !

xx

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Office before and after

A few months ago (in the month of February of this year exactly), a client contacted our company with the question if we would be interested in the redo of their business offices. Although our company is well-known for the more classical interior design, I also love contemporary design. And definitely for business offices!

After discussing with the client about all their needs, my husband and I started to think about the lay-out of the office rooms, the required materials, furniture, lighting,..and finally made a proposal! Our client was enchanted and gave us green light to go on with this project.

The redo had to be finished at the end of July!

I will first show you some “before” pictures of the office rooms. Actually there were 3 existing office rooms of which our client wanted us to create only 2 spaces now.

New lay-out of the office.

Sorry for the quality of the pictures! I am not a professional photographer!

BEFORE PICTURES

Office 1

Office 2

Office 3

Powder room

BROUGHT IN MATERIALS, FURNITURE AND LIGHTING

Wenge wood for the office cabinets and desks.

Epoxy flooring (for more information click here).

Contemporary electric fire.

Wenge colored wooden blinds

Desk lighting armature.

Ceiling light.

Floor lamp.

Desk chair.

Ghost chair.

Phantom chair.

We have chosen for the white phantom chairs but they couldn’t be delivered on time. I hope they will arrive next week! We will place them at the office desks.

Sitting aera chair.

This is the table (not arrived yet) chosen with a white top for the sitting area.

Door handle.

Basin sink for the powder room.

AFTER PICTURES

This is the almost finished project.

Of the earlier office 1 and 2 we created only one office room. I mention it here as Office 1.

Office 1

In front of the former metal structure we placed a white painted wall with a large window.

View through this large window.

Wenge cabinets and desk, made to measure at the working places of our company.

Sitting area with the electric fire.

Notice the industrial look of the epoxy flooring.

Wenge wall tablet under the large window.

The led lighting creates a wonderful effect.

Flowers…the final touch!

At the backside of the wall where is placed the electric fire, we created a kitchen area,…

… and used the wenge wood for the tablets.

Office 2

A repeat of the wenge furniture.

Final touch by my husband.

Again the wooden blinds as window treatment.

Powder room

Hopefully within a few weeks I will be able to show you some professional taken pictures of this project!!

I hope you enjoyed this office redo.

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LEFEVRE INTERIORS

Reynaertstraat 6A

8710 Wielsbeke

Belgium

Tel. +32 55 42 82 07

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