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set of six antique Bivort fruit prints on kitchen picture wall

Kitchen Picture Wall

Four electrical features on a 64-inch wall made this a tricky arrangement. Reshuffling the cards of your life takes time. Often it’s necessary to go over things more than once to decide what stays and what goes. I began that process last Fall with My Final Yard sale. Recently, I tackled where to display the [...]

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Scottish Heather House walls and ceiling

Magazine Pages for a Picture Wall

Picking over my glossies lets me pare down publications overloading the bookshelves. Back in July, shortly after the move from our city apartment, I wrote about the beginning of my house in turnaround. At the time there were some 80 packed boxes still in the garage. Today only 10 remain. The thing I’m learning about [...]

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antique chinoiserie wallpaper detail, ca 1753

Floral Fantasy Walls

Pattern on the walls eliminate a need for framed art Because it functions decoratively on its own, wallpaper always bounces back. And one design considered to be frumpy and old-fashioned at least since the 1960s, (when my Mom had it in her bedroom and bath) has been looking fresh again:  18th-century Chinoiserie or Chinese-style flowers, [...]

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how to arrange a picture wall over a sofa

Informal Picture Wall

How I created a random looking, 14-piece group for my daughter’s new living room. Our youngest daughter (DD2) bought a house over a year ago.  Built in the mid-90′s, it hasn’t been updated.   Needless to say, there has been a lot to do to bring it up-to-date while filling the wants and needs of a [...]

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mural in a sitting room by John Saladino

Accent Mural Walls

When a single image occupies an entire wall it adds a specific atmosphere to a room My fondness for elaborately decorated walls – painted, stenciled, fabric-lined or papered — ranges from the crazy colors of Rome and Pompeii to the pastels and pastoral greens of 18th century Sweden and France, plus everything in between. Today, [...]

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