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Q: How should I arrange furniture in a large contemporary living room with a fireplace on one wall adjoining a window on the side wall, with the space open to the dining area? I plan to buy a new sofa, but I have no idea where to position it. We …Read more.
An Open-and-Shut Case For Dressing Doors Differently
Q: Our sun porch has six windows plus a French door that leads out to the patio. My furniture is mostly traditional, so I'm thinking of using pleated draperies on the windows. But what should I do with the door? It opens into the room, so more …Read more.
Ask Michelangelo: To Wallpaper a Ceiling, it Helps to be an Artist
Q: We have a quirky room, a sun porch with six, large arched windows and a cove ceiling — lots of different angles. I would like to wallpaper the ceiling, too, but I don't know how to handle the curves. Any helpful hints?
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Wood You Believe? Yesterday's Timber Leads a Second Life
Q: Our son and his two young children are moving in with us after his divorce. We had planned to move ourselves, but now we'll stay put and add a great room for the kids. Our house is Tudor-style, so we want the new room to blend with the old things,…Read more.
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How to Make an Attic Bedroom Worth the ClimbQ: My husband's niece will be living with us while she goes to grad school nearby. He has been doing over the attic for her bedroom — paneling the ceiling and putting in a new engineered wood. Now it's my turn to decorate, and I don't know what to do with the slanted walls, etc. Any advice or examples would be a big help. A: Here's a roomful of ideas, borrowed from an aptly titled book, "Style and Substance," by Margaret Russell and the other editors of Elle Decor (Filipacchi Publishing). The white-cream color scheme smoothes out the beams and erratic architecture that comes with most attic spaces and makes the most of the limited light through typically tiny attic windows. Also, note the space-making furniture: a narrow bedside table, wall-mounted swing-arm lamps and the standing screen that softens the angle where the ceiling swoops down to the low side wall. But what really makes the room worth the climb is that explosion of small pictures, amusing and compelling, hung like a staccato refrain all the way to the ceiling. In this room, it's British royal portraits collected by Paul Donaher for his own bedroom (decorated with designer friend Nannette Brown). Your niece might prefer a gathering of friends' and family photos. Either way, it's a novel idea for adding a lot of life to a small, eccentric space. Q: Want to come home to a bit of American history? A: The American furniture industry is making it easy. A number of manufacturers were offering reproductions or "re-imagined" versions of furnishings from historic sources during the fall market in High Point. What's good for your home is also good for the historic homes of America, which reap a share of the profits in exchange for the "inspiration." The very first "first family," George and Martha Washington, would feel right at home in the chairs, sofas, benches and ottomans in the new Mount Vernon upholstery collection from Taylor King (www.taylorking.com). Encore is the latest collaborator with Biltmore, the 1895 Vanderbilt estate in Asheville, N.C., still the largest home in America. Habersham (www.habershamhome.com), the company launched 37 years ago when a young Joyce Eddy started making pocketbooks out of old cigar boxes, now crafts furniture inspired by one of the most fabulous mansions anywhere, William Randolph Hearst's astonishing castle in San Simeon, Calif. Copeland Furniture has been channeling Frank Lloyd Wright's furniture designs for the past three years with the approval of the Wright Foundation. Even the famously arrogant architect should approve of Copeland's rigid commitment to sustainable manufacturing polices at its plants in Bradford, Vt. (www.copelandfurniture.com). Interior designer-turned-Emmy-winning-TV-personality Thom Filicia ("Dress My Nest," "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy") pays homage not to a single house but to his native Upstate New York in his new collection for Vanguard Furniture (www.vanguardfurniture.com). Born and educated in Syracuse, N.Y., (Syracuse University School of Art and Design), Filicia gives his highly original pieces names like Bordino table (after the hamlet where a gourmet market is located in an old church), Strathmore console (for the Strathmore enclave where homes rate listing on the National Register of Historic Places) and Mattydale headboard ("after the pick-up and drop-off location of my sleep away camp"). . Rose Bennett Gilbert is the co-author of "Manhattan Style," "Hampton Style," and five other books on interior design. To find out more about Rose Bennett Gilbert and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM. 
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