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I am very happy to have the opportunity to take you to the home of fellow painter Ginny Mosher. Ginny has been painting for about ten years. She loves all styles of decorative art but her decorating is influenced most by the primitive Americana styles of Judy Morgan, Cynthia Erickson, and Betty Caithness. She loves "pewter, pottery, clocks, stained glass lamps and life in general" She loves her home, is content and has "a house full of great memories".
Walking into her home I had the same excited, anticipatory feeling I have when I walk into a great antique shop. Her home is filled with her paintings, those given to her by friends, antique paintings and signed prints of Kennebunk Port Maine.
All of her rooms have a wallpapered or stenciled border along the top. The stenciled borders were pretty, soft, and gave a nice "oooh" touch. Color flows through her home connecting artwork, curtains, collections, furnishings and antiques.
Hope you enjoy the visit.
Welcome to Ginny Mosher's Home Tour
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I believe this welcome sign at Ginny's front door says so much about Ginny and how she loves to decorate. Her home is a gallery of her own paintings and many others. Her decorative painting is influenced by years spent on the coast of Maine and in New England.
At the entrance to her home is a wonderful floor cloth, painted with bright and colorful pansies. That was just the beginning! She has several painted floor cloths that are on the floors, the walls and tables! There were so many I decided it best to put several together so you won't miss any.
This winter scene caught my attention as soon as I entered her living area. It is just the type of painting that makes you say "Ginny's". But, I also noticed this quiet and simple stencil around the light switch and said to myself "how pretty"! Immediately I was looking for more of the same touch. I wasn't disappointed, there was stenciling around the light fixtures and along the top of the walls, adding a little more understanding of Ginny's decorative living life style!
Small painted pieces are placed throughout her house, a tea box on an end stand......
small box next to a lamp....
and on top of the hutch, just waiting to catch my attention, encouraging me to look for more, while I hoped I wouldn't miss anything.
This table runner was placed on the bottom shelf of a sofa table. I actually thought it was painted on the shelf when I saw it, it looked so right there. Sitting on the shelf next to it, completing the setting and continuing with her primitive theme is this lovely four-drawer cabinet.
The dining room holds lots of wonderful paintings including the small cabinet that can be seen just beyond the table.
Another canvas cloth, this one painted with a garden gate scene, covers the table.
This colorful stroke plate hangs next to a window treatment that supports the colors of the plate and creates a "picture like" drape.
Note the lazy susan accented with Ginny's pewter. This is fun! I love seeing how she decorates!
As I entered the kitchen area I immediately recognized the Joyce Howard design painted on an antique arrowback chair. The chair is placed in just the right spot for putting on shoes, hanging up the keys, putting mail in a painted file box and hanging her most important sign that says "I have gone to look for myself - If I should return before I get back, keep me here".
In her kitchen hangs this painted sampler. It is hung in such a way that it appears to be framed by the berry garland draped on her lighting fixture.
This full-length oar, once belonging to her Grandfather, has been painted a dark blue with this primitive night scene. It hangs under a shelf full of pottery and the colors of the pottery and the painting just make it work so well.
This painted shelf, with all of the little kitsch, mostly small gifts like the ones we all have, keeps the givers in mind.
Ginny has painted switch plates throughout her home. This one was a gift, but she told me she had designed and painted switch plates with similar scenes for the homes of several people.
Her decorating definitely favors the more primitive styles.....
but mixed in are similar folk scenes and of coarse the many painted gifts she has received from fellow painters.
The folk art scene hangs in her living room in company with watercolors, sketches, signed prints and looks wonderful. It all reflects Ginny and her husband's interests and who they are. Hope you enjoyed the tour!
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