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Sofa Solutions

Sofa SolutionsSofa Solutions Q: About six weeks ago I ordered a sleeper-sofa, and it was just delivered. Unfortunately, it is a yellow so fluorescent I no longer need a reading light! I chose the fabric based on the samples; the floor model was a bright blue. The store won't take the sofa back. I love the lines of the sofa, and it's very comfortable,...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Armchair Decorator

The Armchair DecoratorThe Armchair Decorator Didgeridoos Being creative in your interior decorating often requires looking beyond the obvious choices for items that will liven up a room. Everything you put in a room is part of the decor, from the obvious, such as paintings and furniture, to lamps, electronics, and the books on the bookshelf. Musical instruments...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit

The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We SitThe Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit It's my view that people living at the beginning of the twenty-first century have certain beliefs about chairs. First, we believe we are comfortable while we are sitting if the angle formed by our spine and thighbones exceeds 90 degrees. This is true. Notice your behavior the next time you and...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit - Part 3

The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit - Part 3The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit - Part 3 With the beginning of the Industrial Age came the ability to mass produce everything from chocolates to clothing, and furniture was certainly no exception to this. Part two of this series ended with a look at the Morris chair, whose creator, William Morris, worried vociferously about...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit - Part 4

The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit - Part 4The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit - Part 4 Now that we've arrived at the final installment in our four-part series on easy chairs, I'm here with two shocking pieces of news: there is no such thing as an easy chair, and the even the act of sitting is not a natural one. While researching the preceding three articles on easy...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit, Part 2

The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit, Part 2The Big Chair: Status and Luxury While We Sit � Part 2 Note: We discussed the upholsterer's art. Designers created furniture that surrounded the sitter with softness and tranquility. In the 19th century, rounded corners replaced square stuffing, and wood disappeared under layers of patterned textiles, tassels and ruffles. During the second...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Living Room

The Living RoomThe Living Room At Sheffield we teach our students a simple Three-Step Method for designing every room they create: A successful room is functional. A successful room expresses a mood. A successful room exhibits a sense of harmony. This simple Three-Step Method is the secret of every interior ever designed. We teach our students to.

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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The Magic of Color

The Magic of ColorThe Magic of Color Color. Our world is saturated with it, from the bright yellow of fresh daffodils to the dark rusty red of an exposed brick wall. We often take color for granted, not bothering to notice the subtle hues, tones and intensities that surround us. To see how important color is, try this: look around the room you're in, and..

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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Thoroughly Modern Dining Room

Thoroughly Modern Dining RoomThoroughly Modern Dining Room One of the beauties of Sheffield's Three Guidelines to Interior Design is that you can apply them to any style of room, whether it's an old-fashioned parlor decorated in chintz and velvet or a Japanese meditation room without much but a tatami mat and a shoji screen. Here, we can look at this modern dining...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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Versatile White

Versatile WhiteVersatile White In the grand and splashy world of color, what place does white have? Is it even thinkable to address white as a color, here in The Magic of Color or anywhere else? To the eye and mind, white isn't a color; technically, it's the absence of a unique spectral reflection. But, when you're using it in decorating,...

 

Fri Oct 11 2002
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