WORK & MONEY

MEALTIME SHORTCUT Place a tiered rolling cart in an unused corner of a dining room and you’ve got a table-setting station. Just add everyday dishes and glasses, plus table linens in a basket. A chalkboardpaint wall lets you leave a cheery message.

TO BUY: Linear Cityscape, by Daniela Butunoi, $89 (14 by 11 inches, framed), minted.com. Acrylic-sided shelf, $189, westelm. com. Brass pencil holder, $125, shophorne.com. Nuevo Max side chair, $159, wayfair.com/RSsidechair. Snow White rug, $583 (71⁄2 by 5 feet), luluandgeorgia.com. Moroccan leather pouf, from $450, serenaandlily.com. Neon Dash blanket, $79, landofnod. com. Hemnes daybed, $299, ikea-usa.com for stores. Marina white quilt in full/queen, $392, pineconehill.com. Patchwork lumbar pillow, $35, anekdesigns.etsy.com. Black Mini Stick cushion, $82, cleverspaces.com. Scandinavian Fir Tree pillow, $36, riveroakstudio.etsy.com. TO BUY (opposite page): Chalked Clay urn, $24 (large), shop terrain.com. Fresco pull-down kitchen faucet, $199, lowes.com. Old Dutch International copper mixing bowl, $40, bedbathand beyond.com. Washed Arrow woven rug by 4040 Locust, $29, urbanoutfitters.com.

BEFORE: KITCHEN

Spare Bedroom/ Office

Despite its small size (about 11 feet square), this room can work hard: Versatile furniture allows it to function as both a bedroom and a workspace. With a pullout storage drawer underneath, the daybed can be used as a twin or double bed. (The base can extend to hold a full-size mattress.) The accessories shelf, hung 28 inches from the ground, is just the right height for a desk when a chair is pulled up.

TEXTURE TIP

Mixing materials elevates a mono chromatic scheme. Here, a plush shag rug and a smooth leather pouf with a quiltlike matelassé coverlet.

Master Bedroom

Sometimes the only spot for the bed is in front of a window—and that’s OK. Embrace the setup and turn the window into a pseudo headboard by swagging lightweight curtains at the sides of the bed frame. A sleek, industrial-style lamp offsets the flowy fabric, and an accent wall painted the same shade as the kitchen door carries through the mint green scheme.

CLUTTER CURE

The bed frame features rollout drawers on both sides—a clever fix when a room can’t fit a dresser.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: HOW DOES IT WORK, AND HOW CAN I HELP?

Habitat homes are typically sold to qualifying low-income families at a reduced price. Or, as with this house, they are put up for general sale, with revenues supporting more local home builds. (At press time, this house, newly on the market, had not yet sold.) Proceeds from the furnishings, sold at one of Habitat’s ReStore boutiques, benefit the organization, too. Want to get involved? Here are three more ways. 1 SHOP. Buy gently used decorative items, discounted to a fraction of retail prices, at one of the 850 ReStore locations and your purchase helps fund Habitat for Humanity. 2 VOLUNTEER. Go to habitat.org to lend your services to a local home build or to offer your time to stock shelves or man the registers at a ReStore. 3 DONATE. Visit habitat.org to make a onetime monetary gift or to set up a monthly contribution.

BEFORE: BATHROOM

TO BUY: Awning Stripes 2, by Kristie Kern, $179 (16 by 20 inches, framed), minted.com. Ultramarine, $165 (8 by 10 inches, framed), permanentpresseditions.com. Container Ship, by Jorey Hurley, $113 (10 by 12 inches, framed), artfullywalls.com. Industrial Pipe table lamp by Kingstown Home, $175, shadesoflight.com. Isabel one-drawer nightstand, $180, wayfair.com/nightstand. Broad Stripe dhurrie rug in coral, $58 (24 by 36 inches), serenaandlily. com. Classic Core sheet set in full, $109, brooklinen.com. Tiki Toile gray duvet cover in full/queen, $198; and sham, $44; and Town and Country gray matelassé coverlet in queen, $280: pineconehill.com. TO BUY (opposite page): Threshold Color Block shower curtain, $20, target.com. Sea Salt Neroli soap bar, $8, caldrea.com. Cherry Blossom Liquid Marseille soap, $25, compagniedeprovence-usa.com.

Thank you!

Real Simple is grateful to the following vendors, whose donations helped make this project possible.

· Artfully Walls · Bed Bath & Beyond · Brooklinen · Casper · CB2 · Clever Spaces · Compagnie de Provence · The Container Store · Costa Farms · Etsy · Glassybaby · Ikea · Illume · The Land of Nod · Lulu & Georgia · Minted · Mrs. Meyer’s · OXO · Permanent Press

Editions · Pine Cone Hill · Salt House · Schoolhouse

Electric & Supply

Co. · Serena & Lily · Shades of Light · Target · Terrain · Urban Outfitters · Wayfair · West Elm

BEHIND-THESCENES VIDEO Watch this project in progress at realsimple. com/ABM.

DUAL HUES

Black-andwhite herringbone floor tile turns an often overlooked spot into a highstyle feature.

Bathroom

Worn carpet and patchy walls (plaster plus drywall plus mirroring) made this room the most grim in the house. Chapman and Larson had it torn up and redone with a sleeker tub (the old one was missing a standard showerhead!), a vanity with storage, and new tile throughout. (On the wall, the tile even covers an awkwardly placed window.) The wide-stripe shower curtain plays up the floor’s two-tone tiles.