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Article: Extra roles for a dining room; Library, office, even art gallery.(LIFE - HOME)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2007
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Byline: Jen Waters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Lisa Adams' dining room is doing double duty. She has moved her dining-room table into the library, where it is surrounded by shelves of books. As president of Adams Design Inc. in Northwest, Ms. Adams helps many of her clients consider their own creative options for the dining room.
"I see the dining room as the most multipurpose room in the house," Ms. Adams says. "It's the least used room if it's just a dining room."
If people haven't eliminated a formal dining room from their homes, they usually are finding a way to use it for more than dining. The room is sometimes the library, the art gallery, the ...