{"id":283,"date":"2010-05-19T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promiscuousassemblage.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2010-05-14T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T20:55:04","slug":"our-daughters-our-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/our-daughters-our-selves\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Daughters, Our Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though my daughter is a thoroughly independent young adult with a\u00c2\u00a0 job and apartment I still harbor the idea of having her around as much as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Towards that end I’ll attempt to lure her with food and a lovely room overlooking the swimming pool.\u00c2\u00a0 And feeding this fantasy is a bit of Our Daughters, Ourselves-making the room as an IDEA of a daughter’s room, a daughter’s room say from between the wars in a comfortable English house.\u00c2\u00a0 Something for us both (yeah, who am I kidding?!!!).\u00c2\u00a0 Her room and my son’s room have been carved out of a larger space to fit in the new bathroom between them, the bathroom of the Ming green sink and toilet.\u00c2\u00a0 The rooms are now identical in size with a hallway that opens left to her room, right to my son’s and center to the bathroom.\u00c2\u00a0 A\u00c2\u00a0 sweet little Jack and Jill situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m going to paper the walls with a new Nina Campbell paper called Swan Lake.\u00c2\u00a0 I fell in love with it in this particular hue.\u00c2\u00a0 Thrillingly, there is a companion fabric; how’s THAT for a fabulous nostalgic look. On both the paper and fabric the silver color (look closely at the trees) are actually metallic; on the fabric the silver has even a glittery look.\u00c2\u00a0 I love how the pattern is reeking of nostalgia but has a sly modernity to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll be using a turn of the century white painted faux Louis bed that I bought for $25.00 in the 70’s and a couple of assorted\u00c2\u00a0 vintage tables I’ve picked for their splendid shapes and wonderful white painted finishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also two cool old chairs, one dating from my childhood, a real Little Miss Muffet slipper chair and the other another white faux Louis piece ( so beloved by Ogden Codman<\/a>, Edith Wharton, and ME).\u00c2\u00a0 To view the best of this charming species of furniture\u00c2\u00a0 take a tour of the cottages in Newport, R.I.\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0 bedrooms are filled with great examples. Somehow they speak to the fancy French side of things with a distinct cottage accent. Lastly there will by an item that’s always included in both my and my daughter’s decor, a dressing table.\u00c2\u00a0 When she was a small child I loved the fact that she called her dressing table her “beauty desk”.
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Beauty desk plus Louis and Little Miss Muffett chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So where to use that matching fabric?\u00c2\u00a0 Not sure I want to smother the room with matchy\/ matchy.\u00c2\u00a0 But the beauty desk could surely look fab with billowy curtains of Swan Lake.\u00c2\u00a0 I also love the idea of valances on the three wide windows in her new room, so old-fashioned but yet could\u00c2\u00a0 catch what Nina Campbell did so remarkably well with her Swan Lake pattern, tweaking the frumpy with a wink.
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Even though my daughter is a thoroughly independent young adult with a\u00c2\u00a0 job and apartment I still harbor the idea of having her around as much as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Towards that end I’ll attempt to lure her with food and a lovely room overlooking the swimming pool.\u00c2\u00a0 And feeding this fantasy is a bit of Our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promiscuous-assemblage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}