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34 WINTER 2020 and tan [flowers]." For the armchair, the client had suggested checks, but Aquadro felt stripes would better suit the room's overall design. So, with the client's nod, she upholstered the chair in pale brown and tan–striped fabric, which she also used to encase a rectangular pillow for the large sofa. Then, to make the furniture dog-friendly, all the fabrics were stain-treated. To lighten up the dark-stained wooden floors that ran throughout the house, Aquadro placed an area rug in the foyer and ran the same rug pattern up the stairs and down the second-floor hall. "It was a beautiful gray-blue with sandy tan and bright blue stripes," says Aquadro, who channeled the sorts of colors you'd see on a foggy morning at the shore. To brighten the master bedroom, Aquadro chose a sand dollar–toned rug, and then chose a salt-white cotton bedding set with three large square sleeping pillows. "I mounted brushed nickel swing-arm lights [over both sides of the bed] to create a soft evening light and picked out bedside tables in white-painted wood with knobs that matched the brushed nickel finish on the lamps." To tie the elements of the room together, she placed a long, decorative rectangular pillow on the bed in a creamy white fabric embroidered with celadon, cream, and sage leaves and flowers. Aquadro also refreshed a small guest room down vignettes Accent pieces include coral and sea glass colored accessories. Hurricane candle holders add to the beach feel. the hall from the master bedroom. "It was painted a beautiful sky blue mixed with this purply-gray that just glowed, so we kept the existing paint," she says. "I added fresh white cotton bedding with scalloped edges and a custom bolster with button-tufted edges in the same fabric as the Roman shade—white linen with a subtle pale blue stripe of a winding leaf pattern." Since the floor had been painted white, Aquadro continued the airy look by choosing white bedside tables, which she topped with gray-blue ceramic gourd-shaped lamps. White lampshades have double welts at the top and bottom that match the lamps' gray-blue base. The final touch was hanging the client's bone inlay mirror on the wall by the far side of the bed to open up the room and bring in more light. "I think the most challenging part of this project was finding ways to keep the forward momentum," says