Charlotte Des Fleurs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Sales and Marketing |
| Location | My Slice of Provence, Southern California |
| Introduction | Decorating Philosophies: 1) Just because it's old doesn't mean it's worth the gold. 2) Buy only what you love but don't buy EVERYTHING you love. 3) Just because it's shabby doesn't meant it's chic. 4) Choose just ONE main color for a room to avoid confusing the emotional context. Blue, like the sky and water, is both relaxing and refreshing. It gives a sense of stability. Green like verdant fields is both refreshing and envigorating. Yellow, like sunlight and firelight, suggests warmth, home and hearth. Red represents passion - for food, conversation and for companionship. Neutrals give a spa-like, no emotion, sense to a room. |
| Interests | Interior Design, Architecture, Landscape Design, Foreign Language Films, Classical Music, Designing and sewing European style pillows, Antiquing and "Junque" shopping, DIY, Genealogy, Science - math, genetics, physics, human physiology |
| Favorite Movies | Italian April, La Gloire De Mon Pere, A Year in Provence, Marie Antionette with Kirsten Dunst, The Holiday, Gladiator, I Claudius, Babette's Feast (in Swedish), The Restoration, Earth Girls are Easy a comedy with Jeff Goldblum and Gena Davis |
| Favorite Music | Beethoven Piano Concertos, Italian Opera, English Light Opera, Light French Jazz, The Aquabats (go figure!) |
| Favorite Books | The History of the World by Will and Ariel Durant, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Visions of Paradise (a landscape book), The Rose Bible by Ray Reddell, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (philosopher and one of the 5 "Good" Emperors of Rome), Gardens of the Wine Country, King Architectural Metals Catalogue, California Culinary Academy Cookbooks |