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Winter 2017 ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES| 43

The Fireplace Bricks

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dining room was given a period sensibility with wainscoting
(painted in Valspar ‘Elk Horn Cactus’ green) topped with a plate
rail. Above it in the frieze, a stylized rose stencil was painted in
a garden-fresh palette of yellow, pale orange, and green. Ghost
marks in the fl ooring revealed that an 18" built-in buffet had
once sat beneath the windows; they found a quarter-sawn oak

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