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Designer Jill Kollmar's Living Room spotlights a number of fresh takes on classic design.
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Back-to-back seating areas are each lit with a chandlier and are furnished with non-matching pieces upholstered in a range of glowing Robert Allen fabrics. The result is as though furniture has been collected over the years rather than purchased all at once -- a look that adds to the sense of history within the home. Perhaps most striking architectural feature of the room is the wood beamed coffered ceiling. Impressive on its own, the designer took it a step further by installing decoratively painted insets that mimic the look of carved plaster and detailed moldings. The canvas panels were painted in a studio before being installed into the ceiling. Equally stunning is the room's wall of tall arched windows. Between each pair of windows Kollmar hung lustrous panels of golden drapery fabric. These are caught up in a criss-cross of heavy silk cording that is finished off with a large tassel about thirty inches off the floor. Below the tassel she's added a deep flounce of metallic lace fabric that is reminiscent of a ball gown skirt. She said that "Design House 2002 visitors often remark that they've never seen such an unusual drapery treatment, yet I feel that's why we do this -- to show consumers something different." An antique Guatemalan store cabinet fills a large wall opposite the windows. Another corner of the room features an elegant game table that was designed with a center game board that flips to reveal either a checkerboard or a backgammon board. "Design magazines, books, television, and celebrity designers have really raised people's awareness of design," Kollmar remarked. "The general level of taste has improved and there seems to be an expanding interest in seeing what's new at a show house."
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Front Entrance
Arched windows of stained glass, tall columns, and graceful steps welcome visitors to the Design House 2002.
Design House 2002
The Rotunda
Venetian Plaster walls lend a cool glow to this already impressive circular foyer.
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Design House 2002
The Living Room
Back-to-back seating areas are crowned by chandeliers that light the coffered ceiling.
Jill Kollmar Design
Design House 2002
The Living Room
A curvy chair back slipcover unites two fabrics in an elegant scroll of golden embroidery.
Jill Kollmar Design
Design House 2002
The Living Room
Lustrous ballgown-pretty drapery panels are caught in a criss-cross of silken cording and embellished above the hem with flounces of embroidered lace.
Jill Kollmar Design
Design House 2002
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Photographs ©2002 by Glenna J. Morton, Interior Decorating Guide