Knock knock. It's the case of the creeping curiosities.
Antique hand door knocker from Buenos Aires As I look around my house I notice there are many curious objects. It probably started when I was girl and wanted to be a scientist. I collected the typical nature specimens we all love as children: birds nests, insects, butterflies, shells, rocks, maps, old books.
Visual Vamp front door I also loved old and crusty and rusty things, found objects like old keys and bottles, and broken bits of corckery I imagined came from "olden times".
Vignette on the front porch Specimen charts and natural objects have found their way into mainstream decor accessorizing HERE.
Cholo loves this chair by the window with a sheepskin on it Step right up and take a tour of Chez Vamp, where every room seems to have a curiosity or three.
The entry table is rustyBirds, old keys, old house numbers
Rusty old house numbers and keysInsect and bird antique plate
The door stop is huge chunk of amethyst
The dining room table has cowhide and metal antlers And hooves on the table legs
A globe, butterfly specimen, botanicals in the dining room
Flower botanicals in the dining roomSand in the hurricanes
Owl print on a very old vintage calendar Oyster plate
Even though it is still 90 degrees in New Orleans, it still feels like Fall. A certain restlessness piques me. Recently Alberto and I started a kitchen revamp, and my beloved life size skeleton charts that were hanging in the breakfast area, were removed, rolled up and stashed away.
The living room then - wallpaper mural hides a doorBut I missed them, and couldn't think of where to hang them. It's not easy finding a wall space in my house, much-a-less a space for two six foot tall anatomy charts!
Then it came to me! Behind the credenza in the living room!
The skeletons side by side in the living room The mural is behind the one with the back view
Of course, this invited a whole new look for the credenza, a styling opportunity to use all the curiosities!
Styling with curiosoites I added an orange branch with a lady head bust, a metal V recently purchased at the new Anthropologie in New Orleans, an antique mercury pharmacy bottle, a large clam shell, a framed letter on sationary with a pelican on it, a framed print of Madame Pontalba (one of the founding mothers of New Orleans). The lamps made from chippy old porch posts add just the right amount of glam decrepitude.
Metal V for Vamp!
Antique mercury pharmacy bottleThe vintage Baker credenza is nine feet long, so there is plenty of room to clutter it up. No matter how many times I self edit, I start to miss the layered look I love and can do in my sleep.
So I say forget it, so I'm a clutter queen.
So I say forget it, so I'm a clutter queen.
Bird pillow from Dwell Studio 
Antique mercury pharmacy bottles, a gold wood egg, tortoise shells
An antique painting with chippy paint was also added
Visual Vamp master bedroom There are a couple of trays of shells on an armoire in the bedroom.
Shell collection in leather traysIn the kitchen, with the skeletons gone, photos of New Orleans in the 1940's took their place. I hung them like a film strip. A hide appeared under the table.
Visual Vamp breakfast area now Here's a look at the then breakfast area where the skeletons hung for a very long time.
Visual Vamp breakfast area then Skeleton anatomy charts in the kitchen
The skeletons also once hung in the guest roomI bought them in a flea market in Lisbon 8 years ago
Curious little owls on the mantle in the breakfast area
Visual Vamp breakfast area in kitchen nowCurious little details are fun! They make me smile if nothing else.
"Keyhole" on the guest room doorI cut it out from a Fornasetti book
Vintage concrete frog doorstop
The inside of an armoire looks like science class
A mercury glass beetle on a light switchIs Fall making you restless to revamp and redecorate and rearrange things? Tell us what you are up to, and send photos to me if you'd like to show us. I always love to post what you all are doing.
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