Washington Post, July 23, 2009, Terri Sapienza
- White floors create a nice foundation for furniture to rest on
- Paint different rooms in variations of one color
- Freshen rooms with painted furniture
- Stay away from formal, fussy fabrics
- Group like items together
- In the kitchen, leave bare wall space for found objects
- When arranging furniture, start with one large, quality investment
- Avoid a neutral palette that is flat and dull by using different shades of beige and by picking fabrics and finishes with varying textures
- Affordable doesn’t mean unstylish
- Replace fussy, old china with simple white ironstone
- Grandfather clocks can be very serious and very boring. But Swedish grandfather clocks are nice because they are whimsical and can be an architectural element
