Article: A ROOM WITH 3 VIEWS Assignment: transform a dull room into a warm, inviting place on a $500 budget. Here's what three designers came up with

NEWTON -- For this suburban neighborhood, the living room in this 89-year-old Dutch Colonial house was small, about 12 by 15 with a bay window that extended it another 3 feet. A previous owner had stripped the white paint off the mantelpiece and bookshelves flanking the fireplace and stained the wood mahagony. This "dark brown gash," as an interior designer was to call it, didn't help matters. But the chief fault of the room, said the owners, was atmospheric. Although it was painted a creamy yellow, it lacked warmth and welcome, and as proof of that the children wouldn't play there and the dog kept her distance.

Three Boston-area decorators took up the challenge to do the living room over. ...

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