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Large-scale furniture pieces, including floor-to-ceiling built-in bookcases and sofas covered in cotton easy-care slipcovers, form part of Hoffmann's practical, comfortable country look. A committed salvager, she found the battered teak coffee table at a friend's shop and fixed it up. The brick fireplace surround was copied from a pattern Hoffmann found in a book about the Eastern Townships. Yellow blanket, Bleu Nuit; milk glass vase, Vie de Campagne; flowers, Fauchois Fleurs.

Hoffmann found a Gothic-style window in a friend's barn, repaired it, and created an opening for it at the bottom of the stairs, where it looks onto the porch and the pond. "It was the most expensive cheap window ever," she says wryly of this salvage effort. In the bedroom, Hoffmann brought in colour subtly, with patterned pillows in green and brown, and junk-shop bedside tables refurbished with new knobs and pale green paint.

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