Fine Tuning the Room
Before: A long, narrow living room with a tasteful start needs to be warmed up and finished.
The problem: "I have very traditional taste: I like 18th-century pieces and neoclassic pieces, and I don't like anything modern," says Desiree Rocco, a Connecticut restaurateur who has just decorated a large French Normandy brick house for her young family. "My husband and I had a deal—he'd do the outside and I'd do the inside, which I did. I just needed to fine-tune and finish it."
Desiree had started to fill the long, narrow living room with English furniture. She had the rug, two couches, a couple of tables and beautiful window treatments. And there she stopped. "I didn't know how to make it warm and inviting," she says.
The problem: "I have very traditional taste: I like 18th-century pieces and neoclassic pieces, and I don't like anything modern," says Desiree Rocco, a Connecticut restaurateur who has just decorated a large French Normandy brick house for her young family. "My husband and I had a deal—he'd do the outside and I'd do the inside, which I did. I just needed to fine-tune and finish it."
Desiree had started to fill the long, narrow living room with English furniture. She had the rug, two couches, a couple of tables and beautiful window treatments. And there she stopped. "I didn't know how to make it warm and inviting," she says.
From the December 2002 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine