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Article: A mismatched family room gets organized
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2008
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My Space
Reggie and Deena Ethridge had lost control of their family room.
Once a space that adults could freely and comfortably roam
without tripping over a game or piece of athletic equipment, the big
room with soaring ceilings had become a lost cause for the busy
Walpole parents. Their five children - ages 3 to 19 - had claimed it
as their own. That left the elder Ethridges with the job of
apologizing for the space when friends came calling, or simply
shielding it from the gaze of visitors.
"The furniture was never right," says Deena Ethridge. "The room
color wasn't great. The lighting was off. We never quite knew what
to do with the room. It was a little bit of a mess. When the kids
took ...