Instead of the extreme, what about a hideway room within the home for reading, listening to music or lounging under $250.00?( The room can not have a look out of a catalog). To me ,that would really be a challenge because most are staying in the box. TIME TO COME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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that had been neglected for four decades -- after being decorated in early American (ugh) straight from the Sears catalog. Although we couldn't strip away all of the Williamsburg blue paint over gorgeous oak woodwork, we did strip off all of the cutesy wallpaper . . . and finally figured out that the house actually is English arts and crafts. Then we researched that style for the appropriate (earth) colors. And we had to do most of it on a tight, tight budget to be able to do that absolutely necessary remodeling of bathrooms and a kitchen from a century ago (no, nada cupboards, refrigerator on the back stairs, etc.) only nine by twelve feet. That was a feat.

These designers start with a blank canvas. That's not what most of us do. They need to start with the sins of the past and figure out how to update.

And they need to do research. The house is the client, too, for those of us who don't just want to impose ourselves on it and eradicate its own character, its own personality that persuaded us we just had to have it . . . to change it.:-)

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