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Design Dilemma: Bring Order and Style to Chaotic Bookcases
Just about everyone has a bookcase. And just about everyone has trouble taming it. Bookcases left to their own devices become wild and woolly things filled with tchotchkes, DVDs, photos, assorted household detritus, and just about everything except books. How do you tame the beast and make your bookcase a showcase of style? 1) Declutter. […]
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Design Dilemma: Avoiding the Impulse to Match
You’re in the furniture store. On display is a matching couch, love seat and reclining chair. There are even matching pillows, side tables and lamps. The way it’s all staged makes it look… well, almost pretty cool. And since you want your own place to look cool, you decide to spring for the whole set. […]
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Design Dilemma: Finding Small-Scaled Furniture
We have a problem. We live in a condo. And although that’s fine by us, it seems by the standards of many furniture manufacturers, it’s a problem. When we go furniture shopping, it seems that all we can find is wide and deep easy chairs, long and wide couches, massive entertainment centers, humongous armoires. But […]