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O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the Winter 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Maureen Dowd's tiled fireplace

After a contractor encouraged her to paint everything white, she went in the opposite direction. Almost every room is wrapped in color. Her bedroom, which is the peach of a starlet’s lingerie, is furnished with her great-aunt’s dressing table, an iron bed from the 1800s, and a painted bureau. The tiles on the fireplace in Maureen's bedroom, like many pieces in her home, are souvenirs—in this case, from a trip to Tuscany.

Photograph by Michael Arnaud, styling by Rebecca Omweg
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