I love the wall of women. I call my living room, “the grandmother room” because I have pictures (two are photos of portraits that were painted before photography existed) of 7 generations of women in my family. Grandmas, great-aunts, my sisters, etc. so far I have 17 pictures. I used ornate silver frames for all of them. It’s my favorite room.
Not anticlimactic it felt very realistic. A lot of home Reno is a piece by piece project. Absolutely love how the house is coming along. I tell my husband all the time I love your videos because you don't have a boring white and neutral minimalist house. So refreshing to see a colorful home with so many unique moments
I would add to your wall a photograph of Maud Lewis where she is standing in front of her house holding one of her paintings! I think it’s the perfect picture for your home because she was from nova scotia and she covered her whole house with beautiful drawings, which kind of reminds me of your colourful walls!!
I´m still in awe! That section of the video deserves to be "most replayed"! One day, one day I will try my hand on it. For now i keep to painting walls.
Ariel, we have much in common! Ignore the fact that I’m 68! I’ve been looking for paintings of women reading, and I’ve been surprised at the number and range of such paintings out there! Your 5th piece is a woman reading so maybe you could add a few more! I absolutely love everything you have done to your beautiful house.
I love the portrait of the mother and daughter. Reminds me of a painting my mom had in her bedroom when I was growing up of a mother lounging in bed with her toddler sat next to her. Now I wonder which art my daughter will associate with me and my bedroom when she grows up lol Edit: hey! I just looked it up and the painting from my mom's room is also by Mary Cassat! Apparently called Breakfast in Bed
I feel like the wall would look so cool if you added a circular frame or something that’s a different shape. Also, I think it could be cool if you add a mirror to the wall so you can see yourself in the reflection when you pass through the hall!
Ooh, three of the four art pieces have green in them. (Maybe the prayer one too, but I couldn't tell.) It would be so beautiful if each additional painting also had green, to tie them all together and to the wall color. I love the green you chose, and it's so lovely to see all the work you're doing.
I like seeing the slow and steady ride! These smaller videos keep the momentum going and help me to get motivated too. I don't have a whole home to fix, but I do also have an meh hallway! Thanks for inspiring me ☺️ You're a gem!
You should feel so proud about how beautifully and respectfully you are re-doing your home-your house is singing! I feel like every room/wall you do, your home breathes a sigh of relief! :)
i enjoy these videos with the smaller projects so much. these are the things that most other people wouldn’t put in or they’d just breeze past it. but you put so much thought and love into the details 💜
It's so funny that you referenced The Dainty Squid. I found you because I was watching the Stroup Mansion reno videos and the UA-cam algorithm thought that if I liked her I'd like you. And it was totally right! What a funny full circle moment.
When she showed that I thought I haven't gotten anything from the Stroup channel lately! I don't insta & a lot of channels I'm sub to Don't inform me & I have to find by accident. Sometimes UA-cam sux.
I think sharing the smaller projects (especially this time of year) is awesome because many people who are "finished" with home renovations still have those odd areas like hallways or entryways or just random spots that all of the sudden feel unfinished. Also who doesn't love an art wall?!
I subscribed to your channel cause I liked you bookish talks but I must admit your House Renovation videos are such fun, I always click on them immediately when they arrive in my feed and thoroughly enjoy them. About the Hopper painting I've always seen her as the usherette who is just bored cause she's already seen the movie many times and is just waiting for it to be over.
If you do another wall of art, like the dining room gallery wall, and the women's wall, how about a writer/author wall? There are all sorts of portraits/prints available online. I recommend Carolyn Marie Reads' portraits (she has a booktube channel). Her author portraits are so great, and they have excerpts from their books on the prints.
A few years back, I found this picture in a thrift store, Mignon (1828) by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, and it was just so lovely that I had to bring it home. Recently, I added another picture to that section of my bookshelf, a beautiful picture of a mermaid holding her merbaby.
I love John Singer Sargent's portraits of women, such as "The Wyndham Sisters". And one of my favorite paintings in all of art history is "The Penitent Magdalene" by Georges de la Tour. Matisse's "Woman in Blue" is lovely too; she's in my kitchen.
Love when my two favorite vloggers discover each other. I have been following Kaylah Stoup of The Dainty Squid long before she and her husband bought their mansion. I love the authenticity of both of you, that you are strong women role models, and that you chose to learn how to do your own home renovations and keep them so personal to your own style. PS- Her husband Jeff takes the most prolific photographs of abandoned buildings.
I was going to leave essentially this exact comment! Kaylah and Ariel is the crossover we didn't know we needed. Two wonderful souls with wonderful old houses.
Same!! I loved following her and Jeff in their early days, exploring old buildings and cemeteries! Loving the house content too. So cool to hear Ariel mention the Stroups! It's like the internet is so vast, but also not! 🤔👍😊
@@evercuriousmichelle it's called kaylah stroup but unfortunately I just found out she deleted all her videos. There's a link to her husband's channel though, where he explores old buildings, pretty cool. 😊
@@evercuriousmichelle yes as Megan mentioned she deleted her videos - she received some really unpleasant comments on her (amazing) videos so she left youtube. She shares lots of reno stuff on her Instagram though! And her blog thedaintysquid.com has years of amazing stuff to enjoy 🙂
On that beautiful custom green- you might be able to get it color matched at your local paint store. I manage a paint department, and we have a machine that can take a sample and formulate it! It usually is pretty dependable, though you may have to be a little careful on touch-ups of the previous areas. It may make your life a little easier 😊
Loving the young mother sewing. The hallway looks so pretty! I love the way you have taken your time to make your home so uniquely you. Keep up the beautiful work.
yesss i love the dainty squid!! so cool that you like her content too! i love these smaller progress videos, literally any house content you make i'll be clicking immediately!
As someone with adhd, I love the way you're doing one little bite of your house at a time, sometimes. Like you do full rooms sometimes but also it's so great to see you put just love, care, and a feeling of accomplishment by doing -a wall-. I love it. It feels attainable, and still productive, and totally something I could aim for! I'm such an "all or nothing" kind of person a lot of the time and seeing this makes me realize hey I can do smaller things, bit by bit, too. Beautiful wall, and I had just commented on Dainty Squid's instagram how I loved her portrait wall and want to do something like that. I love your wall of women idea too, so great. Love both of your styles, and so glad you are both sharing your reno journeys with us all!
seeing you decorate your house with tons of personal touches, fun colors, and unique stuff made me realize that I love color as well, and when you showed the Mary Cassatt I jumped out of my chair lol. The way she painted women as intelligent caring individuals with agency, so tender, so insightful, I love it so much. That painting in particular, I've been the kid, I'm old enough to be the mom, my grandma was the mom in the painting as well, it's just so safe and familiar. I love your videos and all the thought you put into all the pieces that find a home inside your house
I have my own wall of women. I love it. You’ll have to update us periodically on your progress with your Wall of Women. So much fantastic art out there. Just get what speaks to you.
I don't mind videos of smaller projects. I love your videos and it's so much fun to see what you do to the house! This looks so pretty as well, loving the art!!
I love that Edward Hopper painting and I always interpreted her as an usher in the theater who was sneaking in to watch some of it. But I work in a theater so that's probably why.
Please, keep producing this kind of videos more Ariel! I love how you plan your thoughts and execute them. You taught me a lot in these couple of months about art and design. You changed my whole perspective to things. I appreciate everything you do. And this video was just so calming and eye-opening again! Love, from Turkey.
I don't care how big or small your projects are. I love watching them. I am a huge impressionist fan, especially of Renoir, so I like the Mary Cassatt Painting the best.
I have a hard time picturing myself settling down and buying a house anytime soon (I'm 19, and currently living in a college dorm / with my parents over breaks), but your 'wall of women in art' really inspires me. It's such a beautiful idea, I really want something like that.
This made me think of a wall of paintings that can make up a mountain landscape. The tricky part is they all have to be different paintings but they give one cohesive feel. I would love something like that maybe one day when I’m older and have my own house
I love this idea! As a teenager I had a really wide poster of a mountain range in the corner of my bedroom above my bed. It wrapped around the corner from one wall to another, and I loved the weird way it connected the other things I had stuck to my wall
One of my favorite paintings is Flaming June. It is just a woman having a nap on a balcony. The special thing about it is her bright orange dress. Orange was not used as much back then.
Each room, hallway, stairway unfolds as a new character in a book, unique in presentation & inspired by the instinct of the author as to how it both stands alone in it's persona yet well embodied into the context of the entire interior design plot.
The mom doing her stitching reminds me of the painting "Patchwork on the Run" by Ed Copley there are many paintings he has done, that look life photographs. He is a realistic painter. He has another, "Blessing the Cornfield" in the Hiawatha Series. I love your wall. Your house is coming along ...it beautiful.
Like you, I love the Dainty Squids house and her quirky sense of style. Your house is becoming a beautiful home and it doesn't matter if you do one wall at a time, progress is still being made x
I love this idea of a wall of women. Beautiful and inspirational. If I created this in my home, I would add Girl Interrupted at Her Music and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
ok so after the first ever video from this series some two years ago youtube recommended a video from the dainty squid's renovation and i loved it but didn't save it or anything, and i just recently started searching for it but couldn't for the life of me remember what the channel name was! thanks for shouting her out i'm loving seeing all the updates after 2 whole years!
The more I see the layout and floor plan of Ariel’s home the more I realize she found my dream house 😫 You have such a beautiful home, Ariel, it has been a privilege to follow along on your journey 🤍
Something by Gustav Klimt or Alphonse Mucha would fit your home beautifully. It would also be fun for you to pose either as yourself or in a period costume and have your portrait done. I look forward to seeing future additions.
I'm from NS but no longer living there, the Ducks book was actually a great idea for a christmas present for my dad - so thank you for mentioning it! I am always happy to see that another one of your videos has dropped.
So cute!! My favorite paintings are "Woman of the empire" from Walter Macewen and "Heullant in Gedanken" from Félix Armand. I FEEL those woman Waiting for your next video xoxo
Two of my favorite small artists include Heikala and Koyamori (aka marutibitamin)-- both of them have a more illustrative artstyle rather than realistic painter-ly, but if you wanted some absolutely stunning prints of their watercolor/ink paintings of women existing in simple moments, you should check either of them out ❤
Wow!!! The fact that you have your own show in connection with Wayfair is so cool! These videos have been so fun and interesting to watch. Just last week my partner and I had our offer we made on a fixer upper accepted, and if everything goes well with closing, I hope to use some of the inspiration and knowledge you've given me through your videos during our own renovation and design process! I am definitely going to check out A Style is Born as well! It's perfect timing. Wishing you well in all your endeavors!
You added a distinctly nice touch by placing the Edward Hopper painting that shows stairs leading upward, at the top of your own stairs. From what I read in my _Edward Hopper_ book by Robert Hobbs, the sparse audience indicates the movie showing is an afternoon matinee, and the angsty usherette has likely seen it a dozen times. She no longer wants to watch the movie, or at least this one scene that is coming up.
Yesssss!! I've followed Kaylah for years on her website, and she has UA-cam too! You've always reminded me of her, or visa versa. Old house renovations for the win!! And whimsy!! 👍💕😊 🏠
Love the themed gallery wall idea! I'm currently gathering up a mini gallery wall featuring all my many favourite works of art in postcard form (so that I can actually fit them all in) and it includes one of my favourite portraits of all time: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent. It is a beautiful piece (I really want that chair!) and the story behind it makes even more interesting and also tragic. Lady Agnew, whose husband had commissioned the portrait, gained fame thanks to the painting becoming very popular and she apparently had to later sell it in trying to sustain her celebrity lifestyle after her family ended up with some financial difficulties. Also, each time I visit the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, where the portrait is currently located, I feel like her expression is slightly different, which is a little bit spooky.
What a lovely idea! My favorite is the sewing mother with the soulful eyed daughter. I grew up in a large old farmhouse in Winston, Oregon, USA. My parents were restoring it to a single family dwelling from an interesting upstairs downstairs 2 or 3 family division. I fell in love with architecture, decor and history in that house. The front door still had a skeleton key lock in antique brass face plates on both sides of the door. My Dad put old timey push button light switches in with mother of pearl discs that indicated the on button and antique brass for the off button in an antique brass plate. Watching you renovate your home brings back wonderful memories. Thank you! 😊😍🏡✨
Hi! I think Seated woman with bent knee by Egon Schiele would look amazing there! Its one of my all time favourite paintings and i had it in my room growing up. The woman has such a strong and enigmatic expression!
The wall of women reminded me of the Gallery of Beauties. It is a gallery of paintings in Nymphenburg Palace (Germany). Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868) commissioned painters (mostly Joseph Karl Stieler as he was the appointed court painter) to paint the most beautiful women he could find. It is now composed of 36 paintings representing 36 women from different backgrounds (nobility to middle-class). Definitely worth a look!
Not necessarily a specific artist, but I love going to local antique stores and seeing if they have old black and white photos of people who lived in the area. It's really cool to think of someone who once lived in your town getting to have a moment again on your wall :) I found a really cool one of a kid holding a giant snapping turtle once!
Oh my lord I love Edward Hopper. My favorite artist. His pieces have so much to say -- in college I took a poetry class and learned about ekphrastic poetry, and we studied a couple Hopper paintings. It was fascinating. The rest is history 😍
I love love love seeing the progress you're making on your home. It's just so comforting and inspiring. I love how even the small spaces get the attention they deserve.
Love!!! What a wonderful idea to collect these fascinating portraits. I feel like a portait by Berthe Morisot would fit well into this wall. Also a Waterhouse painting, or a Rosetti!!
Edgar Degas painted lovely portraits of ballerinas. He never married, but said that if he ever did marry it could only be to Mary Cassatt, his lifelong friend. So it would be sweet to have a print of one of his paintings too.
7:44 Ducks! I just purchased a copy of that today! I read the Essex County trilogy and I really wanted another Canadian story 😊 growing up around the GTA as well as in small town north of Toronto, now living in the Atlantic region, I love reading all these relatable stories. I hope it's great!
my fav 2 picasso paintings and also paintings of women are woman with mantilla, 1917 and jacqueline with flowers. the first one i saw in person in barcelona and it quite literally took my breath away the print doesnt give it justice but its still wonderful!
Hi Ariel! I love your home! How about putting a picture rail at the top of the wall so that you can add to your collection of portraits without having to put more nails in the wall. It would also be more flexible because each portrait you find will change the balance of the composition. Keep on! I love it!
Omg I also follow her! By watching her I was suggested YOUR channel! Too funny! Ugh! I just love your style, personality, and “can-do” attitude! Keep it up, everything looks stunning and magical! Much love from Nashville, TN!🥰
Suzanne Valadon - The Blue Room or Woman with Guitar These are two of my favorite paintings, but all of her paintings are great, especially the ones of women
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Delaroche is one of my all time favorite pieces of art. The original is a massive oil painting. The story behind the painting is amazing. It would be a fantastic addition to your collection of female forward pieces.
This was one of my favorite videos. I dont know why, maybe because i only sleept lije 3 hours, but the video made me feel so mutch asmr and relaxed me a lot
I was so jazzed when I saw this notification! I just rewatched your first video about buying your house earlier today for some inspiration, so it's even more delightful to end my evening with a cider an a lil house update :)
This isn't at all anticlimactic, it just reminds us of the care and attention to detail with which you treat every inch of your home.
I love the wall of women. I call my living room, “the grandmother room” because I have pictures (two are photos of portraits that were painted before photography existed) of 7 generations of women in my family. Grandmas, great-aunts, my sisters, etc. so far I have 17 pictures. I used ornate silver frames for all of them. It’s my favorite room.
Oh WOW that sounds so special!
LOVE that idea!
Wow that sounds amazing and special, such a nice idea.
I love your videos. I find them so interesting. I think maybe it's your different collections. I too have many collections.
You have singlehandedly changed the way so many of us think about decorating
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Not anticlimactic it felt very realistic. A lot of home Reno is a piece by piece project. Absolutely love how the house is coming along. I tell my husband all the time I love your videos because you don't have a boring white and neutral minimalist house. So refreshing to see a colorful home with so many unique moments
Thanks, Brianna ♥️♥️
@@ArielBissett I like your glasses Ariel.
I would add to your wall a photograph of Maud Lewis where she is standing in front of her house holding one of her paintings! I think it’s the perfect picture for your home because she was from nova scotia and she covered her whole house with beautiful drawings, which kind of reminds me of your colourful walls!!
I love seeing things come together bit by bit! You’re probably one of my absolute favorite UA-camrs
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The confidence Ariel showed while caulking was impressive!
I respect caulking because it truly makes such a difference but I also hate it because it’s so boring and tedious and messy haha
I´m still in awe! That section of the video deserves to be "most replayed"! One day, one day I will try my hand on it. For now i keep to painting walls.
Ariel, we have much in common! Ignore the fact that I’m 68! I’ve been looking for paintings of women reading, and I’ve been surprised at the number and range of such paintings out there! Your 5th piece is a woman reading so maybe you could add a few more! I absolutely love everything you have done to your beautiful house.
I love the portrait of the mother and daughter. Reminds me of a painting my mom had in her bedroom when I was growing up of a mother lounging in bed with her toddler sat next to her. Now I wonder which art my daughter will associate with me and my bedroom when she grows up lol
Edit: hey! I just looked it up and the painting from my mom's room is also by Mary Cassat! Apparently called Breakfast in Bed
I feel like the wall would look so cool if you added a circular frame or something that’s a different shape. Also, I think it could be cool if you add a mirror to the wall so you can see yourself in the reflection when you pass through the hall!
Ooh, three of the four art pieces have green in them. (Maybe the prayer one too, but I couldn't tell.) It would be so beautiful if each additional painting also had green, to tie them all together and to the wall color. I love the green you chose, and it's so lovely to see all the work you're doing.
I like seeing the slow and steady ride! These smaller videos keep the momentum going and help me to get motivated too. I don't have a whole home to fix, but I do also have an meh hallway! Thanks for inspiring me ☺️ You're a gem!
You should feel so proud about how beautifully and respectfully you are re-doing your home-your house is singing! I feel like every room/wall you do, your home breathes a sigh of relief! :)
I'm here for the slow and steady ride Ariel! It's just lovely to follow along and watch your house become more and more you
Never clicked so fast. What a great post work vid
i enjoy these videos with the smaller projects so much. these are the things that most other people wouldn’t put in or they’d just breeze past it. but you put so much thought and love into the details 💜
It's so funny that you referenced The Dainty Squid. I found you because I was watching the Stroup Mansion reno videos and the UA-cam algorithm thought that if I liked her I'd like you. And it was totally right! What a funny full circle moment.
When she showed that I thought I haven't gotten anything from the Stroup channel lately! I don't insta & a lot of channels I'm sub to Don't inform me & I have to find by accident. Sometimes UA-cam sux.
I think sharing the smaller projects (especially this time of year) is awesome because many people who are "finished" with home renovations still have those odd areas like hallways or entryways or just random spots that all of the sudden feel unfinished. Also who doesn't love an art wall?!
I reloaded my home page at the perfect moment
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Finishing anything as a homeowner feels like a triumph. Congrats on the wall.
I just wanted to say that Ariels hair looks so pretty in this video
I subscribed to your channel cause I liked you bookish talks but I must admit your House Renovation videos are such fun, I always click on them immediately when they arrive in my feed and thoroughly enjoy them.
About the Hopper painting I've always seen her as the usherette who is just bored cause she's already seen the movie many times and is just waiting for it to be over.
If you do another wall of art, like the dining room gallery wall, and the women's wall, how about a writer/author wall? There are all sorts of portraits/prints available online. I recommend Carolyn Marie Reads' portraits (she has a booktube channel). Her author portraits are so great, and they have excerpts from their books on the prints.
A few years back, I found this picture in a thrift store, Mignon (1828) by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, and it was just so lovely that I had to bring it home. Recently, I added another picture to that section of my bookshelf, a beautiful picture of a mermaid holding her merbaby.
I love John Singer Sargent's portraits of women, such as "The Wyndham Sisters". And one of my favorite paintings in all of art history is "The Penitent Magdalene" by Georges de la Tour. Matisse's "Woman in Blue" is lovely too; she's in my kitchen.
Love when my two favorite vloggers discover each other. I have been following Kaylah Stoup of The Dainty Squid long before she and her husband bought their mansion. I love the authenticity of both of you, that you are strong women role models, and that you chose to learn how to do your own home renovations and keep them so personal to your own style. PS- Her husband Jeff takes the most prolific photographs of abandoned buildings.
I was going to leave essentially this exact comment! Kaylah and Ariel is the crossover we didn't know we needed. Two wonderful souls with wonderful old houses.
Same!! I loved following her and Jeff in their early days, exploring old buildings and cemeteries! Loving the house content too. So cool to hear Ariel mention the Stroups! It's like the internet is so vast, but also not! 🤔👍😊
Do you know what Kaylah’s UA-cam channel is called? I am having trouble finding it!
@@evercuriousmichelle it's called kaylah stroup but unfortunately I just found out she deleted all her videos. There's a link to her husband's channel though, where he explores old buildings, pretty cool. 😊
@@evercuriousmichelle yes as Megan mentioned she deleted her videos - she received some really unpleasant comments on her (amazing) videos so she left youtube. She shares lots of reno stuff on her Instagram though! And her blog thedaintysquid.com has years of amazing stuff to enjoy 🙂
On that beautiful custom green- you might be able to get it color matched at your local paint store. I manage a paint department, and we have a machine that can take a sample and formulate it! It usually is pretty dependable, though you may have to be a little careful on touch-ups of the previous areas. It may make your life a little easier 😊
Loving the young mother sewing. The hallway looks so pretty! I love the way you have taken your time to make your home so uniquely you. Keep up the beautiful work.
yesss i love the dainty squid!! so cool that you like her content too! i love these smaller progress videos, literally any house content you make i'll be clicking immediately!
Her Instagram is such perfection!
As someone with adhd, I love the way you're doing one little bite of your house at a time, sometimes. Like you do full rooms sometimes but also it's so great to see you put just love, care, and a feeling of accomplishment by doing -a wall-. I love it. It feels attainable, and still productive, and totally something I could aim for!
I'm such an "all or nothing" kind of person a lot of the time and seeing this makes me realize hey I can do smaller things, bit by bit, too.
Beautiful wall, and I had just commented on Dainty Squid's instagram how I loved her portrait wall and want to do something like that. I love your wall of women idea too, so great. Love both of your styles, and so glad you are both sharing your reno journeys with us all!
seeing you decorate your house with tons of personal touches, fun colors, and unique stuff made me realize that I love color as well, and when you showed the Mary Cassatt I jumped out of my chair lol. The way she painted women as intelligent caring individuals with agency, so tender, so insightful, I love it so much. That painting in particular, I've been the kid, I'm old enough to be the mom, my grandma was the mom in the painting as well, it's just so safe and familiar. I love your videos and all the thought you put into all the pieces that find a home inside your house
I have my own wall of women. I love it. You’ll have to update us periodically on your progress with your Wall of Women. So much fantastic art out there. Just get what speaks to you.
I don't mind videos of smaller projects. I love your videos and it's so much fun to see what you do to the house! This looks so pretty as well, loving the art!!
I love that Edward Hopper painting and I always interpreted her as an usher in the theater who was sneaking in to watch some of it. But I work in a theater so that's probably why.
Yes.. she is the usher. Wearing the usher's uniform and carrying a flashlight, looking pretty bored IMHO.
In your next video could you show us the Christmas decorations around your house? This might be a weird request but I’m really curious 💕
Please, keep producing this kind of videos more Ariel! I love how you plan your thoughts and execute them. You taught me a lot in these couple of months about art and design. You changed my whole perspective to things. I appreciate everything you do. And this video was just so calming and eye-opening again! Love, from Turkey.
That reading knock lives rent free in my head 💕💕🥰💕
I don't care how big or small your projects are. I love watching them. I am a huge impressionist fan, especially of Renoir, so I like the Mary Cassatt Painting the best.
I have a hard time picturing myself settling down and buying a house anytime soon (I'm 19, and currently living in a college dorm / with my parents over breaks), but your 'wall of women in art' really inspires me. It's such a beautiful idea, I really want something like that.
Love how you’re doing things little by little and take such care about each one. Thinking back to what you’re house was and what it’s becoming…..WOW!
This made me think of a wall of paintings that can make up a mountain landscape. The tricky part is they all have to be different paintings but they give one cohesive feel. I would love something like that maybe one day when I’m older and have my own house
I love this idea! As a teenager I had a really wide poster of a mountain range in the corner of my bedroom above my bed. It wrapped around the corner from one wall to another, and I loved the weird way it connected the other things I had stuck to my wall
One of my favorite painters is Isabel Bishop. Her 1940s portrait of a woman putting on makeup, Tidying Up, always makes me smile
Young mother sewing was my favourite, but I like them all!
One of my favorite paintings is Flaming June. It is just a woman having a nap on a balcony. The special thing about it is her bright orange dress. Orange was not used as much back then.
Each room, hallway, stairway unfolds as a new character in a book, unique in presentation & inspired by the instinct of the author as to how it both stands alone in it's persona yet well embodied into the context of the entire interior design plot.
I love this wall & I love that you added Mary Cassatt. That is a beautiful wall and will only grow more beautiful with each picture added.
The mom doing her stitching reminds me of the painting "Patchwork on the Run" by Ed Copley there are many paintings he has done, that look life photographs. He is a realistic painter. He has another, "Blessing the Cornfield" in the Hiawatha Series. I love your wall. Your house is coming along ...it beautiful.
Like you, I love the Dainty Squids house and her quirky sense of style. Your house is becoming a beautiful home and it doesn't matter if you do one wall at a time, progress is still being made x
I love this idea of a wall of women. Beautiful and inspirational. If I created this in my home, I would add Girl Interrupted at Her Music and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
ok so after the first ever video from this series some two years ago youtube recommended a video from the dainty squid's renovation and i loved it but didn't save it or anything, and i just recently started searching for it but couldn't for the life of me remember what the channel name was! thanks for shouting her out i'm loving seeing all the updates after 2 whole years!
The more I see the layout and floor plan of Ariel’s home the more I realize she found my dream house 😫 You have such a beautiful home, Ariel, it has been a privilege to follow along on your journey 🤍
Love all of Mary Cassatt paintings! You are doing a fabulous job of your renovation.
Something by Gustav Klimt or Alphonse Mucha would fit your home beautifully. It would also be fun for you to pose either as yourself or in a period costume and have your portrait done. I look forward to seeing future additions.
I'm from NS but no longer living there, the Ducks book was actually a great idea for a christmas present for my dad - so thank you for mentioning it! I am always happy to see that another one of your videos has dropped.
So cute!! My favorite paintings are "Woman of the empire" from Walter Macewen and "Heullant in Gedanken" from Félix Armand. I FEEL those woman
Waiting for your next video xoxo
I love the idea of having a wall full of portraits oml
I can't get over the window of your reading nook! AMAZING! Just like all your work on this house! Dreamy
Two of my favorite small artists include Heikala and Koyamori (aka marutibitamin)-- both of them have a more illustrative artstyle rather than realistic painter-ly, but if you wanted some absolutely stunning prints of their watercolor/ink paintings of women existing in simple moments, you should check either of them out ❤
Wow!!! The fact that you have your own show in connection with Wayfair is so cool! These videos have been so fun and interesting to watch. Just last week my partner and I had our offer we made on a fixer upper accepted, and if everything goes well with closing, I hope to use some of the inspiration and knowledge you've given me through your videos during our own renovation and design process! I am definitely going to check out A Style is Born as well! It's perfect timing. Wishing you well in all your endeavors!
I absolutely love the Dainty Squid's style and I adore your style as well! Great minds and all that!
Exactly! Differing styles, but similar in that they're both unique and bold and creative, and not afraid to just go with it, and jump right in! 😊
that shade of green is beautiful and those paintings are beautiful as well💚
You added a distinctly nice touch by placing the Edward Hopper painting that shows stairs leading upward, at the top of your own stairs. From what I read in my _Edward Hopper_ book by Robert Hobbs, the sparse audience indicates the movie showing is an afternoon matinee, and the angsty usherette has likely seen it a dozen times. She no longer wants to watch the movie, or at least this one scene that is coming up.
Looks great. Love the pictures. 👍💕
I love how much thought you put into your decorating & your use of colour. Beautiful.
Yesssss!! I've followed Kaylah for years on her website, and she has UA-cam too! You've always reminded me of her, or visa versa. Old house renovations for the win!! And whimsy!! 👍💕😊 🏠
Love the themed gallery wall idea! I'm currently gathering up a mini gallery wall featuring all my many favourite works of art in postcard form (so that I can actually fit them all in) and it includes one of my favourite portraits of all time: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent. It is a beautiful piece (I really want that chair!) and the story behind it makes even more interesting and also tragic. Lady Agnew, whose husband had commissioned the portrait, gained fame thanks to the painting becoming very popular and she apparently had to later sell it in trying to sustain her celebrity lifestyle after her family ended up with some financial difficulties. Also, each time I visit the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, where the portrait is currently located, I feel like her expression is slightly different, which is a little bit spooky.
My favorite, the Virgin Mary. Yes, I think you need one more...your mom, maybe her high school portrait or something like that.
I love the portrait of the sewer!
What a lovely idea! My favorite is the sewing mother with the soulful eyed daughter.
I grew up in a large old farmhouse in Winston, Oregon, USA. My parents were restoring it to a single family dwelling from an interesting upstairs downstairs 2 or 3 family division. I fell in love with architecture, decor and history in that house.
The front door still had a skeleton key lock in antique brass face plates on both sides of the door.
My Dad put old timey push button light switches in with mother of pearl discs that indicated the on button and antique brass for the off button in an antique brass plate.
Watching you renovate your home brings back wonderful memories. Thank you! 😊😍🏡✨
Hi! I think Seated woman with bent knee by Egon Schiele would look amazing there! Its one of my all time favourite paintings and i had it in my room growing up. The woman has such a strong and enigmatic expression!
The wall of women reminded me of the Gallery of Beauties. It is a gallery of paintings in Nymphenburg Palace (Germany). Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868) commissioned painters (mostly Joseph Karl Stieler as he was the appointed court painter) to paint the most beautiful women he could find. It is now composed of 36 paintings representing 36 women from different backgrounds (nobility to middle-class). Definitely worth a look!
Not necessarily a specific artist, but I love going to local antique stores and seeing if they have old black and white photos of people who lived in the area. It's really cool to think of someone who once lived in your town getting to have a moment again on your wall :) I found a really cool one of a kid holding a giant snapping turtle once!
Oh my lord I love Edward Hopper. My favorite artist. His pieces have so much to say -- in college I took a poetry class and learned about ekphrastic poetry, and we studied a couple Hopper paintings. It was fascinating. The rest is history 😍
I love that green paint. You should frame the hopper and the other one, for balance. Great ideas!
That picture of the red-haired woman is one of my favourites from the AGO in Toronto! :)
I liked the small project. I loved your thought behind it and I love art highlighted in a home!
I love love love seeing the progress you're making on your home. It's just so comforting and inspiring. I love how even the small spaces get the attention they deserve.
Love!!! What a wonderful idea to collect these fascinating portraits. I feel like a portait by Berthe Morisot would fit well into this wall. Also a Waterhouse painting, or a Rosetti!!
Johannes VerMeer’s women are stunning. What a fantastic idea for a portrait wall!
I love the painting of Polish Madonna by Piotr Stachiewicz. She’s hanging laundry and it is so beautiful!
Another beautiful day, another video from our Lady and Saviour Ariel. 🙌 I love the art you have chosen. So colourful and inspiring.
Edgar Degas painted lovely portraits of ballerinas. He never married, but said that if he ever did marry it could only be to Mary Cassatt, his lifelong friend. So it would be sweet to have a print of one of his paintings too.
😭 that’s so beautiful
I think you would love the artwork of Serena Malyon. She has lots of beautiful nature/fantasy inspired portraits of women that are gorgeous!
7:44 Ducks! I just purchased a copy of that today! I read the Essex County trilogy and I really wanted another Canadian story 😊 growing up around the GTA as well as in small town north of Toronto, now living in the Atlantic region, I love reading all these relatable stories. I hope it's great!
my fav 2 picasso paintings and also paintings of women are woman with mantilla, 1917 and jacqueline with flowers. the first one i saw in person in barcelona and it quite literally took my breath away the print doesnt give it justice but its still wonderful!
I really like the mother 🤱 and child portrait. But then again the red-headed lady is very intriguing. 🎨🖌️🤩🌹
My favorite painting is the one with mother and daughter.
Omg I clicked as soon as I saw it. Your so insanely talented and your eye for design is like- absolutely incredible!💖💖💖
Hi Ariel! I love your home! How about putting a picture rail at the top of the wall so that you can add to your collection of portraits without having to put more nails in the wall. It would also be more flexible because each portrait you find will change the balance of the composition. Keep on! I love it!
Omg I also follow her! By watching her I was suggested YOUR channel! Too funny! Ugh! I just love your style, personality, and “can-do” attitude! Keep it up, everything looks stunning and magical!
Much love from Nashville, TN!🥰
Suzanne Valadon - The Blue Room or Woman with Guitar
These are two of my favorite paintings, but all of her paintings are great, especially the ones of women
Looks great and I love the green.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Delaroche is one of my all time favorite pieces of art. The original is a massive oil painting. The story behind the painting is amazing. It would be a fantastic addition to your collection of female forward pieces.
I love the Mary Cassatt painting 😍 impressionists are my fave
George Dunlop Leslie "Woman Reading to a Child" is one of my favourites! I saw it at an Alice in Wonderland exhibition and its just perfect
there is a drawing called "merchants wife" and it's this beautiful woman drinking team with her cat and i think she would bring some joy to the wall!
I'd like to see an update on the spooky horror room. Has the Babadook moved in yet?
Love your taste in art, and how all of those paintings look together with the green wall. Beautiful!
This was one of my favorite videos. I dont know why, maybe because i only sleept lije 3 hours, but the video made me feel so mutch asmr and relaxed me a lot
I was so jazzed when I saw this notification! I just rewatched your first video about buying your house earlier today for some inspiration, so it's even more delightful to end my evening with a cider an a lil house update :)