was easy. Select the cheapest. But high-end,
double-thick marble for the kitchen countertops and bathroom vanities was a must.
"Be confident in knowing what you like
instinctively," says Shelley. "Everybody
knows what resonates with them."
If you don't have to do everything at once,
get one room the way you like it and then
move on. If you're stuck, just remove what
you don't like.
"For me it was getting the old lumpydumpy furniture in the dining room out,
because then I could look at it with nothing
in it and it didn't dictate how I felt about the
space," she says.
Soon after, the piece she'd always wanted
materialized: a Saarinen dining table.
Shelley describes her home as "a collection
BIT BY BIT Homeowner Shelley redecorated the home in stages as her taste
evolved. She describes the result as "a
collection of things that make us happy."
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