Lefèvre Interiors & Orac Decor

Lefèvre Interiors

For any of you who visited Maison & Objet in Paris last month, the name ORAC DECOR could possibly sounds familiar. This company was present at the interior design fair.

ORAC DECOR is a Belgian company manufacturing beautiful high-quality cornices, skirtings and related products as ceiling medaillons, pilasters and columns,…

The Orac collection is made out of polyurethane and more easier to install compared to more traditional materials such as plaster and wood.

For all technical specifications and to discover all of the ORAC DECOR, please visit the Orac Decor website.

Click on logo to visit the website.

Orac cornice

Orac ceiling medaillon

Orac skirting

Orac pilaster

Before and after

My company, LEFEVRE INTERIORS, is working with the ORAC products since a few years, and therefore I can highly recommend to all of the interior designers, reading my blog, to go find a dealer in your neighbourhood and to give ORAC DECOR a try. Click HERE to ask for a dealer nearby.

The ORAC collection includes 3 lines : Orac Luxxus, Orac Axxent and Orac Basixx (see http://www.oracdecor.com/).

Here on below a few interior design images where you will discover ORAC DECOR corniches, skirtings and ceiling medaillons.

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice

Orac Axxent cornice and skirting

Orac Axxent cornice

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice and ceiling medaillon

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice

Orac Luxxus Country Style cornice

Orac Luxxus Country Style cornice

Orac Luxxus Classic Living cornice and skirting

Orac Luxxus Royal Chic cornice and ceiling medaillon

Orac Luxxus Royal Chic cornice

Orac Luxxus Royal Chic cornice

Create your own wallscaping by combining different skirtings together!

Even cornices!

Orac Luxxus Contemporary cornice

Orac Luxxus Contemporary cornice.

The advantage of working with ORAC products is that a lot of the cornices and skirtings are available in a flexible version! As you can see here on the images on below.

Flexible cornice and skirting

Isn’t that beautiful?

A combination of different flexible skirtings

Flexible cornice

Orac pilaster

Led insert

Cornice for indirect lighting

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LEFEVRE INTERIORS PROJECTS WITH ORAC DECOR CORNICES

LEFEVRE INTERIORS project with Orac Luxxus cornice

Detail of the cornice of project LEFEVRE INTERIORS

LEFEVRE INTERIORS project with Orac Luxxus cornice picture 1

LEFEVRE INTERIORS project with Orac Luxxus cornice picture 2

LEFEVRE INTERIORS project with Orac Luxxus cornice

My living room with Orac Luxxus cornice.

LEFEVRE INTERIORS project

LEFEVRE INTERIORS project with Orac Luxxus cornice. (Painted cornice)

I hope you enjoyed reading about this Belgian company.

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Pictures Orac Decor and Lefèvre Interiors

A Jacobean Tudor House in Charlotte, North Carolina

In the latest issue of the French Magazine ‘Maisons de Campagne’, I discovered an article about a gorgeous house in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was so overwhelmed by the pictures of this house that I definitely wanted to know more about the architect of this beautiful house. Ruard Veltman is his name. His company Ruard Veltman Architecture is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

I do recommend you to visit his website http://www.ruardveltmanarchitecture.com/. You will discover a lot of beautiful houses designed by his hand!

I have to say that in a lot these houses I felt the influence of European design and guess what…? I discovered that he is from Dutch origine!!

Here on below I show you the pictures that were published in the Maisons de Campagne Magazine and in addition I have post the pictures I found at the website of Ruard Veltman.

In the article was written that Ruard Veltman had designed the house in close cooperation with the New Orleans interior designers Ann Dupuy and Eugénie Gibbens. I did not found further information about them. If there is someone who knows more about these designers, please let me know.

Image 1 Jacobean Tudor style of the house. Stone and brick go hand in hand.

Image 2 Normallly you will find dark coloured ceiling beams in a Jacobean styled house, but here the beams are finished with a bright colour and together with the carpet and the coffee table, is brought in a contemporary touch.

Image 3 To achieve a real contrast between the perfect geometrical windows, the designers have chosen for a country styled dining table.

Image 4 A beautiful sober but elegant entry hall.

Image 5 A mix of different styles of furniture. A contemporary coffee table and antique furniture.

Image 6 The sitting area between the kitchen and living room. The walls are painted in a grey-white colour that matches the carpet colour.

Image 7 Very elegant dining room with leather upholstered chairs.

Image 8 In the kitchen are used a lot of recuperation materials as the beams and the furniture. I do love the grey coloured cabinets.

Image 9 Contemporary styled bathroom

Image 10 Master bedroom in shades of brown.

Image 11 Blue shaded guestroom.

Image 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 all scanned from the Magazine Maisons de Campagne, Jan.-Febr. issue 2010, n°62.

Photographer W. Waldron.

And the following images of the house in Charlotte are from the website of Ruard Veltman (here).

Have a nice weekend!

xx

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Mantelpieces in the European style

Do you like these plastered European styled mantelpieces?

The sober design of them is well-matching the Belgian styled interiors.

Image Magazine House & Garden Jan. 2010 Home of Boris Vervoordt

Image www.alexandrasiebelink.nl

Image www.axel-vervoordt.com

Image by me at the Castle of ‘s Gravenwezel (Axel Vervoordt)

Image Walda Pairon (my files)

Image Magazine Wonen Landelijke Stijl Febr.-March 2010

Image Magazine Wonen Landelijke Stijl Febr.-March 2010

Image my files

Image my files

Image my files

Image my files

Image my files

Image www.garnier.be

Make your choice!

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Inspirational dining rooms

Indeed, I have changed my blog lay-out. I adapted my blog less or more to the lay -out of the website of my company http://www.lefevre.be/. I tried to use the colours of the site in my blog.

Some days ago I was reading an interesting post about 10 tips to create a well designed blog (here). The post was written by Maria Killam at the Colour Me Happy Blog.

Since a few weeks I really wanted to publish larger pictures. My goodness, what a difficult job it was to me!! But in this blogger community there are such a nice people, who are so patient and willing to help! I have to thank Vanessa from the Decor Happy Blog and Julie from the Being Ruby Blog for their support!

I also want to thank my sister-in-law Nathalie to help me with the use of photofilter to create the new header of my blog!

Enough about my blogchange!

Today a post about beautiful, inspirational dining rooms. I am working on a dining room re-do for one of my clients and I was searching for pictures of dining rooms to show my client. Going through my files I stumbled upon some dining rooms of different styles that I wanted to share with you today.

This dining room by John Saladino is one of my favorites.

Beautiful colours for this dining room. And a beautiful chandelier.

No clutter for this contemporary dining room.

Classic furniture in a contemporary area.

A mix of classic and country style. I love the contrast of the dark brown painted walls and the white painted mantelpiece and doors.

Very classic but classy.

Sitting at this dining table makes you feel like a “chatelaine”.

Country style with a Swedish touch.

Solid table and gorgeous lighting.

Love the beach chairs around that table.

Don’t you love the combination of a dining corner and a sitting area in one room?

Royal dining room.

I love these chairs!

Royal dining room again ! This is one of my favorites!

Blue and white in combination with mahogany is always successful.

I always have loved a pair of wall tables placed at each side of a window.

Dining room by N. Haslam.

Not only the design of these chairs but also the colour of the fabric that matches the colour of the paneling, I adore in this room.

Comfortable chairs I guess!

I simply love this dining room.

Have a wonderful weekend!

xx

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Impressions of Maison & Objet and blogger "meet and greet"

Although I am back home from Saturday night, I really did not found the time to post about our trip to Paris for the Maison & Objet exhibition.

It was a very nice but exhausted visit.

I have taken a lot of pictures but I will show you here some impressions of Maison & Objet and a few of my favorite pictures.

There were so many items to discover as table wear and table linen, bedlinen, fabrics,...but I have to say that I was in particular interested in furniture and lighting companies.

I hope you will enjoy this little tour!

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At the entrance, beautiful coloured presentations of Maison Hermès!

www.hermes.com

www.duboutdumonde.com

This picture speaks for itself!
www.cotemaison.fr



Exquisite "pièces d'orient" at Nadia Lazibi , France.
(no website)



Nadia Lazibi





Solid exotic wooden tables at Lysimport.
www.lysimport.com

Yummy yummy!!!

www.laduree.fr

I can't remember the name of this company!

Again wonderful wooden furniture and artwork at Jerome Abel.

www.jeromeabelseguin.com

Socles made of wooden trunks.

www.poldermans-group.com

I loved the presentation of the lighting at the entrance from the JNL stand.

JNL is a Belgian luxury furniture company.

http://www.jnl.be/

www.jnl.be

www.jnl.be

www.jnl.be

Again a company of which I can't find the name anymore, but I loved the combination of black and orange throughout their stand.

Again a anonymous picture of a beautiful chandelier.

Burlap at Chehoma.

www.chehoma.com

www.poterie.com

Beautiful facade detail of the House of Porters.

www.houseofporters.com

Impression of Scapa Home.

www.scapahome.eu

Entrance of the Ralph Lauren stand.

www.ralphlaurenhome.com

You know that I wrote about the blogger "Paris meet and greet" in my previous post!

Well, a few of us met in the Hotel Duo Bar in Paris!

This was the place to be....

....and here we are!!!

From the right to the left : Maryanne Flaherty (Texas) of Beadbourdupcountry blog ,

Tracey Leeson (Australia) of Porchlight Interiors blog ,

Peter (husband of Maryanne), Amanda Harris (Australia) of Oliveaux blog,

Haley Leeson (sister of Tracey) and me.

Maryanne and me

Amanda and me

Tracey and me

Haley and me

My husband Jan in a good conversation with Peter!

It was so nice meeting Maryanne, Peter, Amanda, Tracey and Haley. We talked a lot and learned to know eachother better!

I am so thankful that they all did an effort to meet us there!!

So a few cocktails and glasses of Champagne later, we kissed good bye and went to our hotel room because we were all tired of walking around at Maison & Objet during the day.

Hotel Le Tourville

This is the hotel where we (Jan and me) stayed.

www.hoteltourville.com

We haven't seen a lot of Paris itself of course, but driving from the Maison & Objet exhibition to the hotel, who was situated in the heart of Paris, we had a beautiful sightseeing of Paris.

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I hope that I inspired you to visit Maison & Objet in September!

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All images by me (except the one of the Hotel Duo Bar website).

Off to Paris

Dear friends,
I want to let you know that tomorrow Jan an me are leaving for Paris!
No, it is not a weekend city trip we will make, but we go to Paris for business! We are going to visit the Maison & Objet exhibition.
I hope I will discover some new companies to do business with!

In the mean time I hope to catch a glimpse of (because the hotel we booked is situated in the centre of Paris) ....

... la Tour Eiffel,....

....musée du Louvre,....

...le Ritz Hotel,...

...Maison Chanel,...


All this after spending the day at Maison et Objet!

And last but not least, I really hope to see some blogger friends for a meet and greet in the Hotel Duo Bar in the heart of Paris!

Exciting isn't it!! I am so thrilled about meeting them!!!

Can you imagine meeting here in that trendy bar!?

I will tell you all about it next week!!!!

xx

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My Mediterranean dream house

Today I want to share with you some pictures of a beautiful house at Majorca, the largest island of Spain.
This is the house of my dreams! If I ever should have a house in one of the Mediterranean countries, than I certainly would decorate it in the style of the interior of this gorgeous house!
The wall paint, the fabric of the sofas and the curtains are all chosen in a range of white tones. That gives the interior a feeling of serenity without being cold.
A beautiful mix of funiture and decoration pieces without cluttering.

The porch of the house.

I love these Mediterranean styled houses.

Would you like to join me for dinner?


And what a view!!

The mantelpiece of the sitting room is just gorgeous!

The coffee table, the seagrass carpet, the wicker chair are very well chosen!

A combination of white linen slipcovered sofas and wicker chairs.
Curtains in a linen fabric.

Notice the painted French cabinet.

The view towards the dining room.

Dining room and kitchen in the same area.

Slipcovered chairs at a contemporary styled table.

Dressing corner with a the louvre doors.

Bathroom.

Beamed ceiling in the bedroom.

Notice that beautiful mirror in the background!

What do you think of this house? Is it also your dreamhouse ?

xx

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Images : El Mueble, ano XLV N.571, Photographer :A. Fernandez