Maison Francaise Mag

Loving the issue of Maison Francaise magazine.   http://www.cotemaison.fr/

Trying to locate this beautiful grey modern sofa in the magazine for a friends home I am helping decorate.

UPDATE: Found the sofa online here.


And I am loving these rooms also from the same April/May issue.

Love the mix of brass sunburst mirrors, lucite concole and cool blue colors in this room! The silver lamp so rocks too!  What a beautiful mix of items!

I really love color, wish I had some more of it in my home. Love this decor magazine, they always have such fabulous ideas!  Sorry for the bad photos, have not had time to use a real camera.

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Designer Guild Sofa & Other Cool Stuff for Sale

Ok so I wrote yesterday about a fabulous Designer Guild sofa I found on sale here.  Mr. Hubby and I discussed it and it's a no go.  I am very sad, but I totally understand.  We have zero room for it.  Flat is full to the brim and so is our cave. 

If anyone else would like to purchase this sofa in Lausanne, it's at:

 Fischer Deco, Rue Etraz 12, 1003 Lausanne on sale for only 1500CHF. 

Really a serious bargain for Designer Guild fabric sofa.  You can not even get a decent sofa from Ikea for this amount here in Switzerland.  The designer who owns the shop speaks perfect English and is very friendly.  This is the place where I stock up on all my Designer Guild pillows when she has her fabulous sale twice a year.  She is selling all her floor Designer Guild model furniture items, lamps, pillows and other cool decor stuff.

If anyone does buy the sofa, please let me know.  I would like to think it finds a great home.

Happy Tuesday,

Vickie

Designer Guild Sofa on SALE!

OMG, OMG, OMG!  Found this Designer Guild two seater sofa on sale for a more then half off today in Lausanne!

Oh how lovely it would look in my current office, hallway, bedroom or salon,

maybe the kitchen?!  I actually have no place to put it now, but in 6 months

when we move to Minnesota, I will have a whole house to fill.

Having negotiations with hubby over this sofa....but I am not really in a position to ask for any more furniture.  I have already sworn like three times in the last year I was done furniture shopping.  Then you find a gem like this; a cute little sofa ON SALE covered in Designer Guild's black Nabucco cut velvet fabric and my heart just melts...so does my wallet.

Please, please Mr. Hubby, let me buy this sofa! 

Vickie

Inspiration Rooms

My wonderful hubby picked up the Residences Decoration Magazine for me at the Amsterdam airport and I have fallen madly in love with these two rooms.  The matching chandiliers are to die for, I will take four please!

 I love the mix of vintage and modern furniture.  This is exactly my style.

All images via RESIDENCES Decoration #95

The box sofa above would go perfectly in my salon.  I love the straight wood frame, the black tufted leather and simple feet of the sofa.  Lovely. Masculine.  Sexy. Simple.

The exposed brick wall with the ornate ceiling is a wonderful contrast.  Where can I get those lamps?

  Hint, Hint to hubby...we need new sofas. Two exactly.

-Vickie

The USA has Craigslist.com and Switzerland (VAUD) has Anibis.ch!!!

http://www.anibis.ch/ I love you!


I have been living in Switzerland for years and I have gone without adult furniture for years (oh yes was still using all my college furniture up until recently). One, because decent furniture is so expensive here and two, because most all furniture stores only have one style of furniture – MODERN!

My wonderful friend Sophie introduced me to http://www.anibis.ch/ in April this year and I fell hard, it was love at first sight. There were just pages and pages of vintage and antique furniture that people were trying to get rid of at great prices, I am sure, to use the money to go shopping at IKEA. No really, read a few posts that people literally wrote in French mind you, “need to sale quick to have money to buy sofa from IKEA.” IKEA is like Disneyland here, don’t go right after the holidays or on weekends…you will find no parking and stand in line for hours.

Here are a few items I have bought so far from Anibis:

Below is a tufted vintage velvet green sofa in mint condition that I purchased for a major bargain.

It came with two wing chairs, which I currently have in my bedroom.

I have plans to reupholster it myself soon. Will document the process.

Below was my first anibis purchase, a gueridan is what the man called it in French.

I have plans to reupholster it as well.

The next two pictures are of a solid wood carved bench I paid for 30 francs!

Needs a few touch ups here and there, but otherwise is in great condition.

I currently have the bench in my entrance hallway.

I just love mixing Granny furniture with more modern pieces!

As I see it, no one else in Switzerland in my age group seems to want anything but modern furniture. So I am here to buy as many vintage Swiss items as I can fit into my flat and give it a loving home.

xx

Vickie