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Our master bedroom has been a work in progress for several years. During the course of this redecorating, the shade of green was tweaked (meaning the walls were repainted-- now Pine Forest) and the patchwork quilt I made has been tossed aside to make way for a style that suits me better now. As you might imagine, the painted lattice-patterned border took forever to finish. ( I can only stand on a ladder so many hours a day!) All but the green draperies and the ivory coverlet and shams were sewn or upholstered by me. The inherited furniture has been spruced up with new period reproduction hardware (from Horton Brasses) and I removed the top trim from the mirrors to give them a simpler line. The monogram pillow usually resides in Elizabeth's old room. |
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The framed vintage map of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina was given to us by Steve Springer, one of Bill's former graduate students. He was in the lab from around 1984 to 1987. He and his wife, Kathy, live near Mobile, Alabama. |
The dresser top shows a large pottery vase made by Paul Blankenship. Elizabeth gave it to me as a gift. She worked at Athens Florist during her undergraduate years and the shop carried work by this potter. The heart-shaped dish is a piece of Portmeirion Botanic Garden, also given to me as a gift, by Will. The square photo is of Bill and me taken when he won the University Teaching Award. |
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| The armoire is another piece of the inherited furniture as is the original watercolor art by artist, Penny Thorsen. We had them reframed to better enhance and preserve them. | The small table, also an inherited piece, has been repainted and glazed. The pillow I made using a piece of vintage needlepoint purchased locally from a favorite fabric shop, Chrysalis. The staff there also provided decorating suggestions and other help with the project. The small bookcase, behind the chair, came from Bill's childhood home and I've painted it a dark color to blend with the furniture |
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The art on this wall represents some of our travels and favorite places--St. Augustine, Florida, Beaufort, South Carolina, and St. Francisville, Louisiana. I especially like the St. Augustine art of Jill Hunter .
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Low-cost craft art on this wall is made from leaves gathered on our property--sassafras, grape, morning glory (the flower for September, our anniversary month), and nine-bark--a native that took my fancy found growing near our house. The Colonial Williamsburg dish--a gift from Elizabeth--holds some purchased stones from Paris and hand-made ceramic buttons from Piedmont Craftsmen in Winston-Salem, NC, which I visited on a trip to see Will. The glass flower is a special type glass from Tuscany given to us by the Gianni Bedini family. We had a lovely visit with them in 1999. Gianni is a former post-doc from Bill's lab and works in the Botanical Garden in Pisa, Italy. |
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Again, some art from a special trip--Lafayette, Louisiana. I bought these small prints in an Acadian Village gift shop. I hand painted the frames to better suit the prints. Note that the top print is a cane field! The original is huge and did hang in the hotel where the SS/ASPP meeting was held one year. |
This art print was bought in Savannah at The Gallery on a recent trip to visit Elizabeth and John in Richmond Hill. This is, of course, the now famous statue from the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Both the book and the print are favorites of mine. |