Les Fleurs Suite

The first suite is finished.

The first suite is finished:  Les Fleurs.  The sitting room is pink, the bedroom is peach, the ceilings are baby blue.  The floors are the original polished hardwood.  This suite is on the first floor in the front, across from the dining room.  The ceilings are 14 feet high.  

The front window opens onto a porch that faces the street.  It is the perfect place to sit and watch the world go by and to say hello to everyone strolling to the French Quarter or to Faubourg St. John.  The view is of Gayarre Park, directly across the street, and its statue of Clio, Goddess of History, Muse of Peace, who benignly looks over the 2200 block of Esplanade Avenue.

Is that a bed?  It is.  It is a queen, Egyptian-style bed bedecked with flowers:

A beautiful bed

The bath has a claw foot tub, original to the 1890s house, equipped with a shower.  The sink is in the bedroom, tres European.  The shutters on the front windows close, as seen above in the bathroom, but we prefer to keep them open in the bedroom during the day.  The light is a balm.

The furniture in this suite is predominantly antiques, and there are two fireplace mantles.  A flat screen TV is in the bedroom over the mantle.  In the sitting room is a delightful arrangement of original oil paintings.

Original artwork courtesy of Whalehead King

We began setting up the reservation software today, so the website should be up and running in a week or so.  The French Suite is almost complete, and the Pelican Suite needs a few more touches.  The painting was finished today in the Clio Suite.  The colors delight the eye.  All in all, things are moving along nicely and we should be able to be open for business in September.  Stay tuned.

Want to see those paintings a bit closer?

Those are saints' medals in the flowers

A votre sante!