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A deep blue transforms room with ‘bad’ bones into an inviting guest bedroom

Challenged to revamp a space for an online competition, a designer takes on a neglected room in her own home.

Jared Kuzia

As part of the One Room Challenge online design event, Linda Weisberg cleared out the guest room in her Waban Tudor and got to work. “This room has 7½-foot ceilings and curved walls,” says the designer. “Let’s just say it doesn’t have good bones.” She painted the walls, woodwork, and trim Benjamin Moore Bedford Blue, a saturated hue similar to one she had admired on Instagram. Contrast comes from the wood floor and woven wood shades, along with the skirt on the new forged-iron daybed. A mix of patterns, metallic gold tones, and antiques pulls it all together. Weisberg is pleased, and she’s not the only one. She says, “My 4-year old grandson asked if his room could be painted this color, too.”

1 The pheasant-feather pattern on the Bunny Williams Home lamp adds interest in the corner. Weisberg says, “The colors work so well with the pillows that I had to use it.”

2 A photograph of dried hydrangeas by Great Barrington-based artist Caroline Kaars Sypesteyn is printed on linen saturated in plaster and sand. “I like the rustic presentation,” Weisberg says.

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3 The Paris Flea Market light fixture from Visual Comfort, made from seeded glass beads, adds sparkle. “The ceiling isn’t high, so you can’t do much up there besides install a flush mount,” says
Weisberg.

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4 “The textiles are the focal point of the room,” Weisberg says. She mixed custom pillows in global patterns — a large-scale suzani print and textural tiger print — with cozy alpaca and mohair ombré pillows from MacKimmie Co. in Lenox.

5 Weisberg bought the blanket from a weaver in his workshop on a trip to Morocco several years back. “White bedding would have had too much contrast with this collection of pillows,” she says.

6 The 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug is from Berkshire Home & Antiques. “Once you get into mid-20th century they’re not as pretty,” says Weisberg. “This one is from the 1920s.”

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