Palace Doors~Make your own!

After visiting Versailles I came home quite inspired.  

This is a room in Marie Antoinette's casual palace, the Petit Trianon. 

As you can see its more formal than how most of us live, 

but if you could take away one decorating idea, 

I think it would be the molding.

Look past all the gilding and brocade and you will see 

the most beautiful moldings on walls and doors and fireplace surrounds. 

The moldings in the small country palace were painted in muted colors

 with the raised relief in white.  This inspired me to want to build my

 own palace door as a wall decoration.  Why not?

 Large artwork is hard to find, 

and I like the idea of hanging a door on a big wall, 
or propping it up as a display piece as it makes a great backdrop
for that empty corner of the room.  

I had a few old doors in the shop and last week  I transformed

 it into a Palace Door using Efex appliques and Chalk Paint. 

 Check it out!

 This is a finished shot of the bottom of the door. 

This shows how the Efex appliques look after we attached them

to the door. 

 Another view looking at the bottom of the door.

 The door was an old white door,

we did not prep or repaint, we used the white base

as our starting point. 

You can use scissors to trim the pieces to fit perfectly.

 After coming up with something we thought

would look good, we painted the Efex with Pure White

Chalk Paint so it would match the door color.

I don't have pics of that part. We added some

texture using crackle, but that is an optional step.

The Palace Doors in Versaille were really

not very crusty looking!  I just like things a little

bit more rustic, so we added some texture with

a crackle medium. Then we applied a custom mix

of Paris Grey and Pure White over the entire door.

 Its pretty amazing how you can transform something using these Efex.

This is my mantle, and it is done in a traditional, not rustic style.

It is a Benjamin Moore paint over the entire thing, in a white semi-gloss.

See the options you have to create different looks?

 We love our Palace Door. 

You can create the door of your dreams.