Get the Look

Washington Post, July 23, 2009, Terri Sapienza

• White floors create a nice foundation for furniture to rest on
• Paint different rooms in variations of one color
• Freshen rooms with painted furniture
• Stay away from formal, fussy fabrics
• Group like items together
• In the kitchen, leave bare wall space for found objects
• When arranging furniture, start with one large, quality investment
• Avoid a neutral palette that is flat and dull by using different shades of beige and by picking fabrics and finishes with varying textures
• Affordable doesn't mean unstylish
• Replace fussy, old china with simple white ironstone
• Grandfather clocks can be very serious and very boring.  But Swedish grandfather clocks are nice because they are whimsical and can be an architectural element