Article: Designer challenge.(decorating a bedroom with purchases from an outdoors sporting goods store)(Brief Article)

camp counselor (Architect Alison Spear sets up a guest room with finds from Jet's Florida Outdoors.)

WHEN DESIGNER-ARCHITECT Alison Spear took up House Beautiful's challenge to create a guest bedroom in a ninety-minute, one-stop shopping spree, she knew just where to take editor Frouwkje Pagani: Jet's Florida Outdoors sporting goods store in Miami.

Spear chose canvas cots to serve as twin beds, with a couple of rows of hand-hewn maple hiking sticks for headboards. She settled on a pair of wooden canoe paddles for curtain rods with long drapes of white mosquito netting.

She found floating dry bags for bolster pillows and, for a bedside table, ...

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