La Rosa Boutique

I set out to make a room-box designed around a French dress boutique circa 1950.....I designed my logo from a picture of one of my roses. I love this picture and use it as my avatar online. In case you are a rose enthusiasts, it is The Queen Elizabeth. The Pink Boutique or rather La Rosa Boutique was born.....It started out elegant and chic, and then I went hog wild.

I already had an ordinary room box. I knew I wanted to use this fabulous fabric that I had bought at JoAnn many moons ago with no purpose in mind (which happens a lot). I love the color combinations and the fabric just made me smile. It has a mod vibe to it???? I figured I would use it as wallpaper, but sparingly, as it is quite busy.

Can you see the attraction?

I found a lovely pink paint at target, also many moons ago. It is named Pirouette. It was a little sample size. Do you see how this was coming together? It was like I had been subconsciously buying all this pink stuff in preparation for a future project.

I was thrilled that I had not spent anything on this project. As of now, I had everything in my stash. As I was laying my wood floor, I went in search of something(I can't remember now what it was), when I found some tiles in my stash.  I decided to scrap my wood floor and use these faux marble tiles instead.

 The only problem was that the tiles had grey grout...Grey was not going to work. I filled the grey lines in with a gold leafing pen.......I think this is when I went a little crazy. The gold pen was so pretty, and sparkly and well it is gold!! I got a case of 'gold fever', or maybe I was intoxicated from the fumes arising from the pen? I decided that I needed to accent the store fixtures in a French Provincial style.

 I think this little chair may have also tipped me over to the French provincial side...This is my first piece of Bespaq, and I am in love. I had to have this chair in the store. All those tired husbands needed somewhere to sit while their wives shopped at my boutique??? I can rationalize anything. This was my first purchase.

Now I was starting to question my original design. I was worried that the tile pattern and wallpaper/fabric pattern would really be overwhelming.

I toyed around with using this Victorian looking paper. It is really pretty, but the 50's vibe would be gone. In the end, I chose the fabric.

Flash back to my previous post

I  bought the closet kit from Kitz as part of my store fixtures. I bashed it somewhat so I could have more room for clothes and accessories. Here is a very crude drawing of how I envisioned the layout.

 This is the result.....Nothing is glued yet. I was just checking to see how the arrangement would work

I think the mod vibe is gone!

Meanwhile, I still had a doll to make, as well as several clothes and accessories. That didn't stop me from doing some last minute construction for a a few inches/feet of valuable floor space.

To Be Continued.....