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Instead,
the decorator tried to give both the house and the one-room
cottage, dubbed Wendy House, a unified feeling. Quilt-covered
beds in a sleeping porch, summer slipcovers, and children's
paintings can live
with a wall of eighteenth-century paneling, and American
Renaissance Revival center table, and eighteenth-century
English lolling chairs. A columned porch - an addition
by New York architect Stephen Killcoyne - is the only
major architectural change the couple made to the main
house. Parts of it date back to the end of the eighteenth-century,
when, it's said, a Revolutionary soldier built the place
with his severance pay.
--- While Jayne chose traditional
fabrics and furnishings, he used them with what he calls
a twist. That approach illustrates Jayne's shift from
tried-and-true traditional to the slightly and subtly
surprising. In the living room for example, he had a trio
of Roman shades from Clarence House linen printed with
peonies and pomegranates. Its palette, says Jayne, was
the "Rosetta stone" of the décor. |
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