When renovating or redecorating one's home, it is often difficult to find just the right furniture pieces. Because there are so many choices available, it helps to narrow down your options to the pieces that best reflect who you are, what you stand for, and what you love. If you want to reflect your unique personality and quirky fashion sense through your furniture, read on for some helpful tips!

- Look to style magazines and online articles to help you find your vision. Even though you want to reflect your own personality through your furniture, you do not need to come up with every idea on your own. You can reflect your own style not only through your unique ideas and furniture combinations, but also through what you choose to include (or not include!) in each room.

- Ask your closest friends what they think your decorating personality is. It can be eye-opening to get a second opinion. You may think of yourself one way, but your friends undoubtedly have at least a slightly different view. Whether they have a lot of advice or just a few ideas, you are sure to appreciate their input.

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A full range of Queen Anne chairs have been reproduced in various styles, and are among the most elegant choice for a classical home. The chairs were made in the Rhode Island area around the 1740-60. There was related chair designs in the New York and Pennsylvania area in the same approximate time period. Queen Anne Chairs reflect the elegant lines of the Rococo styles, which were apparent in every furniture design around this time period. Often you will see cabriole front legs and carved shells on the knees with claw and ball feet.  This lovely chair is from Bernhardt Furniture (Read More.....)

Baroque/ Louis XVI Chairs Peter M. Trapolin Interior Design by Alexa Hampton

Louis XVI style fell between 1774–1793, which was at the time the tale end of Rococo and the beginning of Neoclassicism. Neoclassicaism was reflected in the architecture, painting, and sculptures, so the styles gravitated towards something opposite than the ornate rococo.  Louis XVI chairs are often oval, rectangular or shield form. The cabriole legs of the Louis XV had been replaced with straight legs and are fluted legs imitating the columns of ancient Rome. Most of the furniture and chests were retangular, or square than the obvious curves such as the Bombe chests of Louis XV.

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Louis XVI Dining Chair Seller John Norwood Antiques

The Louis XVI style was all about simplicity, which replaced the exotic over the top ornate styles of Louis XV. Between 1760-1789 most furniture lost the extra fuss and the lines became more architectural and straight. Painted chairs and tables were trimmed in gold or another contrasting color. Gilded wood becamse popular for chairs, and legs and vertical supports appeared turned resembling spindles, quivers, columns and balusters. Flat surfaces and right angles were the popular in this style and architectural motifs were still used as decorative elements. (Read More.....)

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