How to create a luxe living room
Canada's favourite TV decorator is well-known for overcoming the most daunting design challenges. Her most recent, which she's documenting on her latest TV show, Sarah's House 4: lending character and warmth to a cookie-cutter suburban home. In the first of her new weekly columns for Globe Style, Richardson addresses one of the chief - and trickiest - rooms in the house: a large, empty living room in need of glamming up
THE LOOK I need rooms designed for entertaining with sophisticated elegance. Since the living room is supposed to be a salon, it needs to appear properly appointed. I’m not into fabrics that can’t stand up to family life, but a little polish and a nod to glamour are always important.
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