Saturday, February 16, 2013
Our living room redo - part II
Friday, December 7, 2012
Lefèvre Interiors new website online
My dear readers, I am pleased to announce that our new website is online !
The passed weeks we have worked hard on the design and construction of the new website of our company LEFEVRE INTERIORS.
I would love to thank the team of our webmaster TALES for their dedication and the support we received !
You will notice a special page, dedicated to the Lefèvre Interiors workshop and our team of craftsmen.
A special thank you to the photographer CLAUDE SMEKENS for the gorgeous photoshoot he took at the workshop !
Photographer Claude Smekens at work.
Today I posted a few pictures to see at the gallery page of our new site.
Enjoy!
To know more about our company, please visit our new website at
I wish each one of you a relaxing weekend !
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Lefèvre Interiors new website online
Thursday, November 8, 2012
French Paneling - Signature Lefèvre
Since many years, our company, Lefèvre Interiors , is renown, for manufacturing high end custom made interiors, specialized in paneling. My ancestors were cabinet-makers, working according to time-honored techniques and traditions.
As current managers of Lefèvre Interiors (already for the 4th generation) Jan and me are convinced we have to continue this tradition in respect for our ancestors at the first place but even to keep this beautiful art alive.
Today we are preparing the design and creation of a French 18th century inspired paneling.
Jan is taking over, by measuring, a moulding from a French 18th century boiserie panel.
Oak hand-painted French paneling.
As inspiration to design paneling, Jan and me frequently visit ancient castles. We are always hoping to find mouldings we hadn’t seen before, to add to our collection.
And I love to browse into my father’s or grandfather’s collection of ancient books.
Lefèvre’s team of highly skilled craftsmen offers over 120 years of experience.
To continue the traditional work of our ancestors, and to manufacture 18th century boiseries, we need experienced and high skilled craftsmen -cabinetmakers and woodcarvers-, because mouldings have to be carved by hand.
Our employee Freddy at work. Freddy is working in our company for 40 years! Working at the same company for all these years is probably not very common these days.
My father (who passed away in 2001) was an experienced woodcarver and during his spare time, we frequently found him in his studio, working on one of his creations in wood.
Stained oak French Régence styled paneling.
Detail
French Provencal oak paneling in a Belgian country house.
French Régence styled paneling with exceptional hand carved mouldings.
Every single piece of furniture or paneling or library or any other project does not leave our workshop without the Lefèvre Interiors estampille . My father was the first of our family who raised the Lefèvre ‘estampille’, following 18th century French ébénistes (cabinet-makers).
J. = the first letter of my father’s first name Jacques
Lefèvre = the family-name of August (founder of Lefèvre Interiors and my great-grandfather), Medard (my grandfather), Jacques (my father) and me.
1890 = year of establishment of our company, founded by my great-grandfather August Lefèvre (1867-1942)
The rafters and the 3 joiner’s planes refer to my ancestors, three previous generations of cabinet-makers.
If you would like us to help designing and manufacturing your paneling, even if you live outside Europe, feel free to contact us at info@lefevre.be
For more Lefèvre Interiors realisations visit our website at www.lefevre.be
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French Paneling - Signature Lefèvre
Friday, October 5, 2012
Red painted
This week I was preparing the design of an eat-in kitchen for a client, and I am thinking about painting some of the kitchen cabinets in red! Yes red!
I noticed that more and more designers are using red to paint cabinets or paneling.
These images of red painted paneling and cabinets inspired me and persuade me to give red a try in this new kitchen design.
Although this is a red painted dining room, the cabinetry inspired me to bring in red in the kitchen design.
I would love to suggest a cabinetry kitchen wall as this one here.
Here is used Farrow & Ball Rectory Red, that is echoed in the wallpaper.
Don’t you love the beautiful red painted paneling in this sitting room ?
Red painted library!
This is a kitchen design that I really love!!! All cabinets are painted red. Very inspiring!
Or this one! I love the combination of the oak kitchen isle with the red painted cabinetry!
And again, another shade of red!
This door inspired me to even paint the kitchen inner door in red! Why not?!
Source The World of Interiors Dec 2011 Photo Credit Christopher Simon Sykes
Even if I don’t succeed to convince my client to paint the exterior of the cabinets in red, I definitely will try to give the boarded interior of the cabinetry a shade of red!
Boarded insides of cabinetry
The only thing I have to decide now, is to make a choice out of the different shades of red!
Here are some of the Farrow & Ball reds I love.
FARROW & BALL
It’s very interesting to know that on the Farrow & Ball website, you can find some color schemes as here for the Rectory Red paint.
Color scheme Rectory Red
To discover more paint colors, please visit Farrow & Ball at http://eu.farrow-ball.com.
Would you dare to paint your kitchen cabinetry red? Please, tell me!
Happy weekend!
xx
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