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Les cadres avec lesquels je décore le salon sont anciens.

Les cadres avec lesquels je décore le salon sont anciens.
The frames with which I am decorating the living room are old.
From Lesson 168:Relative pronouns with prepositions (lequel)·French

Questions & Answers about Les cadres avec lesquels je décore le salon sont anciens.

Why do we use lesquels here instead of que?
In French, when "which" comes after a preposition like avec (with), you must use a form of lequel. Since it refers back to les cadres, which is masculine and plural, you need the masculine plural form lesquels. You cannot use que after a preposition.
In everyday English, I might say "The frames I decorate the living room with." Can I put avec at the end in French?
No, French grammar never allows a preposition to dangle at the end of a sentence or clause. The preposition avec must go immediately before the relative pronoun lesquels, exactly matching the structure "with which".
Why is the adjective at the end anciens and not anciennes?
The adjective describes les cadres. Even though the noun ends in -e, cadre is masculine. Because there are multiple frames, the adjective takes the masculine plural form anciens.
Does cadres always mean picture frames?
Not at all! While it clearly means "frames" in the context of decorating a living room, cadres is also a very common business term for "executives" or "managers".

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