Fine Tuning the Room
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After: Leather club chairs and
ottomans by the fireplace and two sofas rearranged in an L shape invite lounging
and conversation. Decorative elements—metal sconces, architectural prints,
candlesticks, painted boxes and needlepoint pillows—give the space
personality.
The solution: Decorators George Snead
and Margi Vorder Bruegge propped (to use the stylists' term for adding objects
to make a picture) Desiree's room in her own taste. They rejiggered the
furniture to make new seating arrangements and pulled things from the edges of
the walls into the middle of the room. This edge thing is a pet peeve of theirs:
"We call it wagons circling the fire," says George. "Everything against the
walls can make the space, especially a long, narrow room like this one, really
grim."
Desiree
says, "It took a couple of hours, and when I came home I was thrilled. They took
it to a whole new level. My husband keeps saying, 'C'mon, let's go sit in
there.'"
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