How would I go about designing an Audrey Hepburn bedroom?
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Lulu
My room is teeny tiny and my mum is allowing me to do whatever I want to it, I want an Audrey Hepburn style room, my family has bought me a few pictures. What colour scheme/furniture would look best to work with the theme? I am 16 next month if thats important...
She was an old hollywood actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
Tada!
Answer
Audrey Hepburn was a very stylish lady of the times. She was most famous in films in the 1950's. So I would choose things from that era.
She worn pearls, tight waist belts to show off her tiny waistline, she carried a fashionable purse always and a hat.
She was always very put together.
One of the ideas in decorating in that time frame was to do a black and white decor with splashes of pinks, blacks or grays. Sometimes reds. They had silver fabrics too with lots of shimmer and elegance.
Choose things with lots of sparkle she was a Hollywood star!
Poka-dots were really in fashion.
Furniture was a modern now retro style, very streamline in style or to the other extreme of curves more Victorian in style and often in white or deep wood tones. Tufted headboards on the beds with tacks.
Art nouveau mirrors , elegant chairs, Chrystal glass sparkly lamps.
You can likely find much of the furniture are used stores or Salvation Army stores. A little paint or furniture polish they will look new again.
http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide6.php
http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide4.php
http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/furniture_showroom.php
http://www.target.com/gp/search/186-4363527-3883358?field-keywords=vintage-50s-furniture&AFID=Google&CPNG=Furniture&LNM=vintage_50s_furniture&LID=23399036&ref=tgt_adv_XSGT0504
http://www.efurniturebuys.com/productdetail.asp?productid=3027&refid=bizrate
http://www.poshliving.com/catalog/Bedding-Bath/Bedding-Collections/Serena-and-Lily-Tess-Bedding-Collection/1106/21165/product_detail.asp
Here are some links to some decals of dots to carry through the idea of poka-dots onto your walls. The poka-dots were usually black on pink or black or red on white. You could paint your room pink and put some dots all over a wall and a few scattered in limited areas on other walls to tie it in.
http://www.dezignwithaz.com/removable-wall-stickers-otherz/bubble-cloud-wall-decals-p-588.html
There is bedding on the market with dots on it to follow through with the dot design plan. Some examples on links below.
http://www.pbteen.com/products/p1351/?catalogId=53&bnrid=3782901&cm_ven=Shopping&cm_cat=Shopzilla.com&cm_pla=Feed&cm_ite=Shopzilla.com
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Kids-Durham-Polka-Dot-Quilt-Set/3465575/product.html?sec_iid=33969
Or you could paint a large silhouette of Audrey Hepburn on one wall.
Take a look at this link to see what I mean.
http://www.dezignwithaz.com/graphic-wall-decals-characters/dreamz-home-wall-stickers-p-600.html
When you follow the links above scroll and click on the other things on the site when you get to them. Many have lots of ideas for you.
Best wishes have fun and make the room about your love for Audrey Hepburn and your personality too.
Audrey Hepburn was a very stylish lady of the times. She was most famous in films in the 1950's. So I would choose things from that era.
She worn pearls, tight waist belts to show off her tiny waistline, she carried a fashionable purse always and a hat.
She was always very put together.
One of the ideas in decorating in that time frame was to do a black and white decor with splashes of pinks, blacks or grays. Sometimes reds. They had silver fabrics too with lots of shimmer and elegance.
Choose things with lots of sparkle she was a Hollywood star!
Poka-dots were really in fashion.
Furniture was a modern now retro style, very streamline in style or to the other extreme of curves more Victorian in style and often in white or deep wood tones. Tufted headboards on the beds with tacks.
Art nouveau mirrors , elegant chairs, Chrystal glass sparkly lamps.
You can likely find much of the furniture are used stores or Salvation Army stores. A little paint or furniture polish they will look new again.
http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide6.php
http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide4.php
http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/furniture_showroom.php
http://www.target.com/gp/search/186-4363527-3883358?field-keywords=vintage-50s-furniture&AFID=Google&CPNG=Furniture&LNM=vintage_50s_furniture&LID=23399036&ref=tgt_adv_XSGT0504
http://www.efurniturebuys.com/productdetail.asp?productid=3027&refid=bizrate
http://www.poshliving.com/catalog/Bedding-Bath/Bedding-Collections/Serena-and-Lily-Tess-Bedding-Collection/1106/21165/product_detail.asp
Here are some links to some decals of dots to carry through the idea of poka-dots onto your walls. The poka-dots were usually black on pink or black or red on white. You could paint your room pink and put some dots all over a wall and a few scattered in limited areas on other walls to tie it in.
http://www.dezignwithaz.com/removable-wall-stickers-otherz/bubble-cloud-wall-decals-p-588.html
There is bedding on the market with dots on it to follow through with the dot design plan. Some examples on links below.
http://www.pbteen.com/products/p1351/?catalogId=53&bnrid=3782901&cm_ven=Shopping&cm_cat=Shopzilla.com&cm_pla=Feed&cm_ite=Shopzilla.com
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Kids-Durham-Polka-Dot-Quilt-Set/3465575/product.html?sec_iid=33969
Or you could paint a large silhouette of Audrey Hepburn on one wall.
Take a look at this link to see what I mean.
http://www.dezignwithaz.com/graphic-wall-decals-characters/dreamz-home-wall-stickers-p-600.html
When you follow the links above scroll and click on the other things on the site when you get to them. Many have lots of ideas for you.
Best wishes have fun and make the room about your love for Audrey Hepburn and your personality too.
What age did slave kids start working?
Natalie
Like I'm writing a story about African american slaves. I wanted to know what age did slave kids begin labor. Did they get whipped too?
to jazmin gray-Thankiez
Answer
very young. in 'America's Women' Gail Collins writes:
'Small boys and girls frequently played with white children, unaware of their different status. "This was the happiest period of my life, for I was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave" wrote Mary Price. They played marbles, skipped rope, and pitched horseshoes. One exslave remembered holding make-believe auctions in which the children "sold" each other, taking pride in the high prices they imagined they might bring. But when white children began to learn to read, the black children went to work. Girls put on skirts and learnt to light bedroom fires in the morning, make beds, polish shoes and silver, and carry food from the kitchen - which was usually seperate from the house - to the dining room. They washed dishes, gathered eggs, and "minded flies", by brushing them from the white folk. Slave girls were sometimes assigned, at a remarkably young age, to care for white infants. Ellen Betts said that when she was a small eight year-old, she was put in charge of babies "so big and fat I had to tote the feet while another girl tote the head."
Angelina Grimke remembered seeing slave children "kept the whoel winter's evening, sitting on the the stair-case in a cold entry, just to be at hand to snuff out candles or hand a tumbler of water from the sideboard." Small children who tried to light fires, carry heavy loads dowstairs, or peel vegetables with sharp knives were often injured. Even more frequently, they were beaten for falling asleep or stealing food.
Half the Southern slaves worked for small farmers, who lived in houses only slightly more impressive than the slave cabins on large plantations. A former slave in Nashville whose master hired her out to a working-class family said that she was required to "nurse, cook, chop in the fields,chop wood, bring water, wash, iron, and in general just do everything." She was six years old at the time.
Besides the multitudinous chores, the lone slave was cut off from the community that was the one great source of comfort and support in a world where she was regarded as something less than fully human by the whites. Katie Phoenix, who was sold as a little girl to a solitary woman who had no other slaves, said she had no idea that she was a child until her mistress's granddaughter came for a visit. "I thought I was just littler, but as old as a grownup. I didn't know people had grown up from children" she said.'
P.S. While I don't in any way wish to excuse the treatment of slaves and slave children, which was utterly deplorable, it is worth pointing out, for the sake of historical context, that in general during the slavery era, it was not unusual for young white children to be put to work. White working class children often started work at a very young age, and for instance the kind of chores done by the Nashville slave girl would very likely have been done by white children in a family that could not afford slaves or lived in a non-slave owning area. young white girls might be left to mind babies and care for the home while their parents went out to work, children of farming families would be expected to work in the fields etc as soon as they were old enough. children worked from a very young age alongside their parents in factories and even down mines. Our modern view of childhood as a time of learning and playing was not how our ancestors saw it, for the majority of children - poor children - work often started at a very early age. What we think of as normal - children staying at school until they are eighteen or so, was for only a very priviliged minority in the slavery era.
very young. in 'America's Women' Gail Collins writes:
'Small boys and girls frequently played with white children, unaware of their different status. "This was the happiest period of my life, for I was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave" wrote Mary Price. They played marbles, skipped rope, and pitched horseshoes. One exslave remembered holding make-believe auctions in which the children "sold" each other, taking pride in the high prices they imagined they might bring. But when white children began to learn to read, the black children went to work. Girls put on skirts and learnt to light bedroom fires in the morning, make beds, polish shoes and silver, and carry food from the kitchen - which was usually seperate from the house - to the dining room. They washed dishes, gathered eggs, and "minded flies", by brushing them from the white folk. Slave girls were sometimes assigned, at a remarkably young age, to care for white infants. Ellen Betts said that when she was a small eight year-old, she was put in charge of babies "so big and fat I had to tote the feet while another girl tote the head."
Angelina Grimke remembered seeing slave children "kept the whoel winter's evening, sitting on the the stair-case in a cold entry, just to be at hand to snuff out candles or hand a tumbler of water from the sideboard." Small children who tried to light fires, carry heavy loads dowstairs, or peel vegetables with sharp knives were often injured. Even more frequently, they were beaten for falling asleep or stealing food.
Half the Southern slaves worked for small farmers, who lived in houses only slightly more impressive than the slave cabins on large plantations. A former slave in Nashville whose master hired her out to a working-class family said that she was required to "nurse, cook, chop in the fields,chop wood, bring water, wash, iron, and in general just do everything." She was six years old at the time.
Besides the multitudinous chores, the lone slave was cut off from the community that was the one great source of comfort and support in a world where she was regarded as something less than fully human by the whites. Katie Phoenix, who was sold as a little girl to a solitary woman who had no other slaves, said she had no idea that she was a child until her mistress's granddaughter came for a visit. "I thought I was just littler, but as old as a grownup. I didn't know people had grown up from children" she said.'
P.S. While I don't in any way wish to excuse the treatment of slaves and slave children, which was utterly deplorable, it is worth pointing out, for the sake of historical context, that in general during the slavery era, it was not unusual for young white children to be put to work. White working class children often started work at a very young age, and for instance the kind of chores done by the Nashville slave girl would very likely have been done by white children in a family that could not afford slaves or lived in a non-slave owning area. young white girls might be left to mind babies and care for the home while their parents went out to work, children of farming families would be expected to work in the fields etc as soon as they were old enough. children worked from a very young age alongside their parents in factories and even down mines. Our modern view of childhood as a time of learning and playing was not how our ancestors saw it, for the majority of children - poor children - work often started at a very early age. What we think of as normal - children staying at school until they are eighteen or so, was for only a very priviliged minority in the slavery era.
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