Interior

open layout

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kitchen - almost all white, except for range and microwave and hood.

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Floor

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floor?

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colors, leather couch, wood trim, light floors.

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floor

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floors

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Uplights Have a beautiful or shapely ceiling? Uplights will bring attention to it and indirectly bounce light back down. Plus, they are often combined with a wall washer so the architecture is fully on display.

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Dropped Ceilings It may seem impossible to add a pretty pendant light in many cases, especially when working with a concrete condo ceiling. A dropped ceiling panel can provide a place to house lighting fixtures like pot lights or pendants, or even a minimalist LED strip to brighten a passageway, while creating a beautiful space-defining feature.

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swap heavy area rugs for lighter rugs or no rugs

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when only one wall can have a window, make it as large as possible

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Light floors with dark wood beams

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"8. Add architectural anchors. This might be a problem you would never have thought you would have, but sometimes a floating piece of furniture just cries out for a finishing touch that gives it that true sense of style. Capping your living room sofa, dining room sideboard, boudoir wardrobe or similarly dominating piece of furniture with a pair of sconces anchors it beautifully, tying it visually back to the wall and adding a very literal sense of lightness to balance out that weight. It’s a subtle designer secret that really works. "

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"2. Declutter a desk. A simple table lamp can work just as easily at home as it does at the office to add task lighting to your desk. But sometimes you just want your home office to feel more like home and less like work. Use that same plug for a sconce, and you’ve got instant modern style as well as one less piece of clutter on the table to worry about."

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blinds

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floors

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Step lights. Every good lighting scheme makes use of ambient, diffuse and accent lights. Step lights provide all three and are excellent devices for inciting movement between destinations. Step lights are unobtrusive and inexpensive, and because they’re recessed, they lend a fully customized look and feel. Opt for LED bulbs and the fixtures will consume as little as 4 watts each while directing the wattage right where it’s needed: at your feet. Two quality manufacturers I really like are WAC Lighting and Bega.

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doors

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whites and windows

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Paint: Easter Lilly by Benjamin Moore

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Double doors open to dining room

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lights

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Table was originally a dining room table - legs were trimmed to turn it into a coffee table.

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buttercream and black

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whites, wallpaper

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