Bedrooms

A signature of country French style is the relaxed composure of the window treatments and their integration with the rest of the room, as in this space. The Kingston valance at the master bedroom's bay window -- a silk watercolor stripe with a small checked border that matches the bed hangings (but is cut on the bias to a diamond shape) -- shares the hues of the wallpaper toile and echoes the ball-gown loveliness of the canopy bed.

The chairs are covered in a linen version of the toile wallpaper, creating quiet coherence in a room with a high degree of visual stimulation.

 

The informality of a check, bordering the draperies, plays off the dream-gown bed hangings created for the master suite.

 

The pastoral toile of the guest room draperies and valance is accented beautifully with delicate trim. In this room, a delicately patterned wallpaper keeps the room from overwhelming the senses.

 

Red finds its way into the bedroom and creates a warm and inviting environment, harmoniously uniting the toile with patterns of contrasting scale -- the large red check of the chair and the softer trellis wallpaper.