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Article: Enlarge a room with dark colors and large furnishings Decor Score
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- The News Sun - Waukegan (IL)
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- May 9, 2009
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Q: Our old Victorian home (1904) has a lot of small rooms on the top floor - the "rabbit warren," my husband calls it. We have a student tenant living in one, and I'm thinking about taking another as a hobby room for myself. I need ideas about color and furniture. I guess I should paint it white because it's so small.
A: Not necessarily so. Obviously, you have researched and learned that white and light colors equal a more spacious feeling, but rules can be bent.
Look how designer Garrow Kedigian uses dark, warm colors in the small pictured room - and we do mean small: 7 feet 10 inches by 10 feet - a former servant's quarters in the Manhattan mansion, where this year's Kips Bay Designer ...