Room Service: Bedroom Makeover
A dated bedroom gets an elegant new look
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For years, Portland, Oregon, interior designer Kathia Emery kept her favorite furniture in storage. "It didn’t suit my decor," Kathia explains. "I wanted an English country manor house, but I lived in a ’50s-style ranch," she says.
But everything changed when she reunited, recently, with her husband James Kahan. Originally wed in 1964, the couple divorced two years later. Decades rolled by and then a year and a half ago, life brought them together again. Newly wed for the second time, Kathia and Jim purchased a 1940 colonial in Eastmorland, Oregon, close by the college where they first met. "It’s a classic white house with green shutters," says Kathia happily. Although the new house was a great backdrop for the furniture she’d stowed away, its rooms called for an update—particularly the master bedroom, where busy wallpaper, fussy window treatments and a hodgepodge of furniture left the rectangular space feeling disjointed and overcrowded. "I envisioned a traditional-style bedroom," says Kathia, who runs her own firm, Emery & Associates, in Portland. "But, at the same time, I didn’t want it to look like my grandmother’s house."
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