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This open and spacious house was once a warren of rooms, with disjointed extensions that didn't make the most of the property's potential. Still, the owners couldn't help but fall for its rural ...

The flooring here and throughout much of the house is 6-inch white oak planks. The dining room is to the right off the foyer behind a white sliding barn door that hangs from coal-black hardware ...

The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) generally creates the briefing room seating chart, which gives the front row to what most of us would call the “mainstream media,” such as ...

Darker blues are more intense than lighter blues, and a wallpaper with the former can heighten the coldness of a room. Bilotta also suggests that one easy way of adding lightness and warmth to a blue ...

It offers two levels of white, smooth-front cabinets without pulls or knobs, black ... Asian wallpaper of a mountain range and valley takes up one wall. A gas fireplace sits across the room ...

which acts as a barrier between the entryway and doubles as a drying rack for laundry. The dining room is decked out in peel-and-stick wallpaper with a Scalamandre print and includes two ...

Behind the living room is a dining room with exposed brick and easy access to the kitchen, which has black-and-white checkerboard ... This level also has a laundry room. Outdoor space: The patio ...