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Home makeover: Junk beautiful

By
Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer
Photography by
Douglas E. Smith

A family's home gets a beautiful makeover using recycled junk.

The living room
Living areas should be comfortable as well as beautiful. For example, oversized, white slip-covered sofas with lots of stuffing will provide both elements to your room. Throw in a beat up old coffee table constructed from scrap wood and an iron gate, and you will have firmly established a junking good look of your own. However, furniture alone does not complete a room, it's just a good place to start. For example, the neutral color scheme also played an important role in this makeover. The combination of several soft shades of off-white on textured walls added a European flavor.

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Excerpted from Junk Beautiful by Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer Copyright © 2008 by Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer. Photographs Copyright © 2008 by Douglas E. Smith. Excerpted by permission of The Taunton Press, a division of Random House of Canada Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

 

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