My work snow-balled from there, and I worked as a decorative artist for about 10 years, getting work through word-of-mouth and never having to advertise.
After a four year break I recently had a few commissions from old clients - so below are some pictures from the early days and more recently.
Colourwashed walls and hand-painted detail.
Faux panelling on wardrobe doors - one of these leads to the en-suite !
Bathroom with colourwashed walls and detail over arch to shower.
Hand-painted string of chillies.
Colourwashed walls and faux 'nook with candle'.
This house also contained the play-room that turned into a pool-room
and which I wrote about here
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BIG ideas in a little house.
Egypt at the end of your bed ???
Views of the Nile, across some mdf wardrobes !
The big black box is the tv - I know, it would have been better, if my client
just opened the top doors when she wanted to watch the tv !!!
A ruin under the stairs, in the hall/dining-room.
I badly wanted to put a view through the ruins, but wasn't allowed !
A niche with an urn, complete with cracks - in a downstairs cloakroom.
And a statue on some more mdf doors, just visible on the right.
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A swimming pool room, at the bottom of my clients garden.
Before picture with ghastly pink walls.
And after-
unfortunately the radiator pipes are still there !
I imagined a Mediterranean view, complete with terrace and olive tree.
I also imagined the swimming pool room being inside a house, with open
doorways on both sides.
And niches !
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Another swimming-pool room, this time with views of the Seine,
because my clients here, love the South of France.
I tried to disguise the boxed pipe in the wall, with a tree.
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A recent commission - and my all time favourite.
My clients used to own the first house and moved to the house below.
A dream job as my clients repeatedly said -
'whatever you think Fiona, just do what you want' -
music to my ears !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The kitchen/breakfast room, with stripy walls.
And faux stone blocked chimney breast.
The dining-room with colurwashed, panelled and stencilled walls.
Their daughter's bedroom.
And through to the en-suite.
You can see more rooms in this house, when I posted about them
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