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THE CHALLENGE
Meredith Campbell confused into her Oakton, Va., home a little added than a year ago, and the 14-by-10-foot appointment is the aftermost amplitude she needs to decorate. She would like to acrylic the bookcases to brighten the allowance and wants a comfortable abstraction breadth she can abundance books and coil up to read, as able-bodied as a abode for a workstation. Campbell is attractive for recommendations for an breadth rug, lighting, window treatments and how to alloy the sitting breadth with a home office.
THE PROPOSED SOLUTION
Designer Sara Tuttle adds a adulation seat, club armchair and coffee table beneath the window while application the congenital board as a amplitude to assignment and abundance appointment supplies. She keeps the acrylic and ample pieces aloof and brings in blush and arrangement with pillows and a fun geometric breadth rug. She recommends painting the bookcases white to amend the allowance and accomplish it assume larger.
TUTTLE’S SUGGESTIONS
Fill the bookcases with books and baby objects, but breach up the built-ins by blind a ample painting from one of the shelves. Acrylic the walls and the backs of the bookcases a balmy aloof blush to accomplish the amplitude feel comfortable and inviting. Try Winter Gates by Benjamin Moore. Floor-to-ceiling accoutrement panels add amore and affluence to the room. Hang them aloof beneath the acme abstraction to accent the acme of the space. Choose aloof colors for the walls, curtains and ample pieces, again band in bright accents that can be afflicted out calmly as tastes change. Add greenery, such as a basin of moss and an orchid, to activate the room. Choose a beautiful board armchair that can be calmly congenital as added basement back needed. Eliminate beheld ataxia by dent bottomward the workstation to accommodate alone the essentials, such as a computer, printer, lamp and a few board accessories.
Tuttle, with Sara Tuttle Interiors (571-442-8687, saratuttle.com), is based in the District.
SPLURGE OR SAVE
SPLURGE: Bungalow 5 bend ancillary armchair in gray ($880, wellappointed house.com), left. SAVE: Midas gold dining armchair ($299, cb2.com).
SPLURGE: “Front Yard” aboriginal art ($1,950, mecox.com), left. SAVE: “High Spirits” wall art ($698, anthropologie.com).
SHOPPING GUIDE
Furniture: Clifford swoop-arm adulation bench in bleared dejected ($699.99, target.com); Carlo mid-century armchair in granite bolt ($599) and marble-topped basement coffee table in white marble and aged assumption ($699), both from westelm.com; acrylic hexagon ancillary table ($229, ballarddesigns.com). Accessories: Romero 8-by-10-foot indoor-outdoor breadth rug in beach ($999.95, zgallerie.com); 50-by-108-inch brushed cotton-twill adolescent accoutrement panels in beat ($155 each, restorationhardware.com); one-inch bay window blind rod set in aged gold ($79.95, countrycurtains.com); Ikat pillow covers in acclaim ($29.50 each, alesouk.com); custom aboveboard bandy pillow in Venice amethyst ($195, jonathanadler.com); Volpi 22-inch pillow in fleet on cast ($275, well-made-home.myshopify.com); Stem attic lamp with white linen adumbration ($349, rejuvenation.com); Mister table lamp ($129, cb2.com).
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