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1574 Fountain Branch Road
This Classic Southern charmer has over 2,900 squarefeet, covered front and back porches with many upgrades for your family to enjoy or when entertaining friends! Details to note include: An all brick exterior; split floor plan; hardwood floors throughout; granite countertops and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen. There’s a large entry foyer hand painted by Sandra Lett; a formal dining room for special occasions; an open kitchen with breakfast bar, eating area and abundant
counter and storage space; a downstairs master bedroom, along with two additional bedrooms. Upstairs, there’s a bonus room and fourth bedroom with full bath. Directions: Ricks Plantation is conveniently located just outside the city limits in Oak Level. Sunset west to left on Halifax Rd. and right on Oak Level Road. no city taxes! This home is offered at $274,800! For more information, call Kenny Bullard, 252-452-3243. Visit our Open House, from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
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Spacious formal dining room.
Cathedral ceilings in greatroom.
Sleek and open kitchen.
Ask a designer: Tween bedroom is balancing act By MELISSA RAyWORTH
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Decorating a baby’s room is all about what mom and dad want. But decorating a bedroom for a “tween-age� child is more complicated. It’s a great place to give growing adolescents some creative freedom. But will they reject at age 12 the color palette and furniture they begged for when they were 10? Kids grow up fast enough that parents may not want to rush the process by removing all childhood whimsy from their rooms. But we also don’t want to redecorate each time our kids get just a bit more mature. So we’re left walking the line between playful and Mom-I-can’t-believe-youbought-me-this-furniture. Here, designers Michelle Workman of Michelle Workman
Interiors, Brian Patrick Flynn of Flynnside Out Productions and Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design offer advice on designing a tween bedroom that has ample storage, homework space and enough cool style to keep kids happy year after year.
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Kids love color, but it’s practical to start with a neutral base. Flynn suggests going all-white on walls and ceiling but adding texture “to keep all-white from reading flat or sterile.� “I use 1-inch-by-10-inch pine planks on the walls and install it horizontally,� he says, “then have it all whitewashed or painted solidly. This brings architecture to the room and also creates a linear
backdrop for showcasing favorite things.� Workman recently designed a bedroom for a 10-year-old boy with gray walls and cabinetry. “Gray allows you to layer either cool or warm colors on top,� she says, “whereas beige tends to only work with warm colors, and then the room becomes too warm.� She added a navy leather sofa (“a pullout for sleepovers,� she says, “and leather only gets better with age�), plus a rug, throw pillows, an ottoman and chairs that included shades of orange and turquoise. The result: playful but not immature. Another approach: “Red, white and blue has become a modern classic for boys and girls,� Flynn says.
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In this photo provided by Burnham Design, designer Betsy Burnham filled this bedroom for a preteen girl with white bedding, a white rug and chair, and white curtains, then added just one piece of furniture, a bit of paint and a few accessories.
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