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22 creative room makeovers
By Suzanne Gannon of Coastal Living
Open, airy kitchen
This kitchen, in a tiny beach shack in Amagansett, N.Y., felt crowded with upper cabinets and dowdy curtains. Sturdy, walnut shelves replaced the cabinets and opened up the room.
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Vaulted ceilings
A vaulted Carolina pine ceiling, glass doors and new windows let in light and helped the small living room breathe.
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Doubled bedroom
Designers divided one unwieldy bedroom into two smart, comfortable ones. Built-in closets are tucked behind the chimney in the small home.
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Entertaining patio
Designers added a pool and hot tub, a patio made of bluestone and dry-stacked Pennsylvania fieldstone, and the surrounding flower beds. They also replaced the original toolshed with a gray-sided pool house, making a great spot to host an outdoor get-together.
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Outdoor dining spot
Adding outdoor rooms, such as this dining area under a wisteria-covered arbor off the living room, more than doubled the living space in the petite Amagansett home.
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Cool-down spot
Installing a cedar-clad outdoor shower just outside the kitchen door allowed it to share a wall with the house's indoor shower, which simplified the plumbing.
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Bold patterns
A plain dining room gets a fresh and bright update in this Newport Beach, Calif., house. The homeowners decided on a flexible seating arrangement of bench and chairs with colorful slipcovers from Shine by S.H.O. The shell-encrusted statement chandelier is by Currey & Company.
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Pops of color
Painting all of the walls in the house white created a clean backdrop for a riot of color. The living room features lemon-yellow lamps from Shine by S.H.O. By replacing the wall-to-wall carpet with bamboo flooring, the room gains an instant lightness.
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A bright welcome
The cheerful, yellow front door of this Newport Beach home is a custom shade by Dunn-Edwards.
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Oversize accents
The homeowners used oversize pieces, like this chair in a Raoul Textiles print and a Crate & Barrel floor lamp, to draw attention to the high ceilings.
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Cool kitchen
The homeowners refaced the kitchen cabinets, painted them a custom pink-gray color by Dunn-Edwards, tore out the dropped ceiling and replaced the countertops.
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Playful breakfast nook
The goal of this breakfast nook was "bright and fresh," just like the room's inspirational tiki poster.
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Mix-and-match patterns
In this teenage girl's bedroom, the homeowners chose grass-cloth wallpaper in lieu of paint and brought in white accents with pillows, pendant fixtures from Shine by S.H.O. and a West Elm lacquered desk and chair.
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Soothing master bedroom
The master bedroom in this Newport Beach house gets a pop of color from the headboard upholstered in striped Lee Jofa fabric, aqua lamps from Shine by S.H.O. and a palm pillow from Ankasa. The colors play nicely against the white walls.
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Coastal courtyard bath
In the master bath, the homeowners tore out everything and started over, with Palm Leaves wallpaper by Cole & Son and sturdy Corian countertops in Seaglass. The room opens to a courtyard garden.
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Outdoor chic
The homeowners upgraded the patio with a double chaise from Room Service and turquoise cushion fabric piped in green from Sunbrella.
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Renovated cottage
Homeowners remodeled this 1920s home by opening up the shed roof and L-shaped additions out back with new French doors to bring in more light and views of the Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
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Neutral and warm living room
Massive support beams make for an open first-floor plan, while the vaulted living-room ceiling occupies former attic space.
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Rustic coastal dining
The ceilings, walls and trim in this simple dining room are painted Brilliant White by Benjamin Moore. A sturdy wooden table gives the room a touch of warmth.
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Antique shower
The homeowners made a shower curtain that surrounds the antique tub by soldering copper piping and bolting it to the interior roof rafters.
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Resourceful kitchen
During demolition of the original cottage, the homeowners salvaged glass-paned cupboard doors and hinges to create new built-ins off the kitchen.
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Cozy sleeping loft
Angled eaves under the sleeping loft's 6-foot-3-inch peaked ceiling accommodate small pieces of furniture and a built-in bed abutting the half-wall behind the stairs.
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