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Article: Having Kids, Pets And a Home With Style
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- The Washington Post
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- October 8, 2009
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It all started when Liz Levin's daughter was learning to stand on
her own. As the D.C. designer watched her toddler, Julia, seek
support from the living room furniture -- a vintage coffee table
made of glass and chrome next to a pair of antique armchairs
upholstered in an expensive cream cotton -- she realized things
needed to change.
"Looking around at everything -- the metal table, the white
chairs, the Chinese garden statue at the fireplace -- . . . it was
like a disaster waiting to happen," says Levin, 33, who started her
design business in 2004. "I realized everything was going to have to
stand up to a new and different level of use."
After a search for family-friendly ...