Nook In Bedroom

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Brian Woodcock

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Cute Closet Phone Booth

Television star Mike Wolfe loves old phones, so, when he found this vintage one, he decided to turn his closet space into a phone booth. The colorful accent pillow echoes the red in the wall decor, helping to make the space cohesive.

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Cozy Kid's Corner

In order to create a budget-friendly reading nook for her kids in the family room, this clever mom repurposed rain gutters and end caps from Home Depot to make book shelves. Wooden letters from Michael's spell out "READ." Smart!

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Bjorn Wallander

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Built-In Daybed

The owners of this Massachusetts house outfitted their son's room with a built-in daybed and bookshelves. The trim is painted Van Courtland Blue by Benjamin Moore.

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Max Kim-Bee

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Snug Space

The owner of this California home turned a 15-foot-wide section of hallway into a snug spot for reading with the help of Farrow & Ball'sHague Blue paint and an antique tobacco leather club chair. For a personal touch, she hung family photos in mismatched frames.

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Annie Schlechter

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Bellhop Style

To up the hospitality factor, the owner of this colorful Texas homebrought in a vintage hanging rack. She stows away extra linens in antique suitcases.

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Alec Hemer

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Comfort in Carolina

A crab trap side table and a lamp—both from a local boutique—bookend this sitting area's Shabby Chic chaise lounge.

New Hampshire Farmhouse

Max Kim-Bee

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Sunny Corner

The sap bucket next to this built-in daybed in this New Hampshire home holds three types of sunflowers, including a pale-yellow variety that the owner bred himself, named Reggie's Mix. The beadboard is painted in Benjamin Moore's Guacamole.

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Mark Lohman

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Arkansas Sitting Area

A friend of the owner's sewed the linen slipcover for the sitting room's chaise lounge in this Arkansas home, purchased new at nearby boutique Vintage Cargo. The curtains are from Pottery Barn.

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Max Kim-Bee

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A Striped Seat

A tufted ticking-stripe armchar sits beneath framed vintage butterfly specimens. The owners of this Catskills home bought the brass hurricane lamp at a garage sale down the road.

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Max Kim-Bee

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Lounge Around

The owner of this Texas cottage was inspired to turn $10 cow-feed sifters found at the Round Top Antiques Fair into artful sconces with burlap fringe. Her husband fashioned the frame of the daybed using a $25 flea-market door and pallets. The pillowcases are made from old grain sacks.

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Melanie Acevedo

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Calming Colors

Blue and white pillows and a custom roman shade (made with Christopher Farr fabric) reinvented an entryway as a reading nook in this Massachusetts home.

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Lara Resen

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Repurposed Decor

In the living room of this circa-1970s New York farmhouse, John Robshaw throw pillows help cushion a radiator-obscuring bench and turn it into a relaxing spot. The insect photos, by Linda B. Horn, hang on a wall painted White Dove by Benjamin Moore.

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Victoria Pearson

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Victoria Pearson

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A Place to Rest

The owners of this Washington estate assembled a nonfunctioning clock with $23 of rope and plywood, plus leftover paint and hands cut from scrapwood. A burlap T.J. Maxx pillow, only $10, contrasts with a leather armchair scored on Craigslist.

patterned daybed

Christopher Baker

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Punch of Patterns

The owner of this Kentucky retreat built this daybed, which wears a Home Goods gingham sheet and pillows from Pottery Barn (the green and one and the striped bolsters) and Home Goods (the large patterned square).

Lisa Romerein

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Funky Corner

Decorator Sasha Emerson reupholstered her armchairs in cotton ticking and fashioned the window shades from linen chintz. Tweaking those traditional fabrics? An ad for a French furniture store, bought at Vintage European Posters in Berkeley, and a resin elephant table from the 1960s.

distressed walls

Victoria Pearson

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Luxe Library

This Atlanta loft's iron daybed, draped with an antique cotton quilt, is more than 100 years old. The midcentury metal floor lamp came from a photo studio. The coffee table's a West Elm bargain.

simple living area

John Gruen

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A Modern Spin

In this Massachusetts cabin, an Ikea sheepskin softens a 1970s bentwood rocker, which belonged to the owner's father. The tin B was part of a gas station sign.

Richardson chaise lounge

Stacey Brandford

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master bedroom sitting area

Quentin Bacon

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Bold and Bright

In this Georgia lake house, the owner's collection of vintage tramp-art mirrors hangs above a custom settee—enlivened by a Utility Canvas quilted blanket—in the master bedroom. Westbrook sourced the carpet, sewn with Turkish flour sacks, from Sullivan Fine Rugs.

blue chaise and divider

Miki Duisterhof

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Shades of Blue

A comfy featherbed softens a circa-1810 chaise in the master bedroom of this New York home. A hand-painted folding screen from the 1950s stands behind the structured chair.

guest room sitting area

Max Kim-Bee

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Reading Space

Textile whiz Thomas Paul customized a Ballard chair, upholstering its cushions with Pendleton throws, to create a sweet spot in our 2012 House of the Year guest bedroom.

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