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Meriwether Farm​

Meriwether Farm marked my first participation in a decorator show house. As a first-time participant, I was invited to consider an overlooked second-floor bedroom—one that nevertheless had to be completed because visitors would pass through it on their way from an adjoining bath to the rear stair.

When I first saw the room, a committee member offered one simple observation: “It does not have to remain a bedroom.”

That changed everything.

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Rather than create another bedroom, I imagined the ultimate dressing room for a man—not a conventional walk-in closet, but a personal room for someone who pays particular attention to grooming, dress and personal appearance. It would be a place to prepare for the day, organize one's belongings, and take a moment for oneself.

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The architecture required attention first. New crown moulding was added to give the room greater definition, and the existing ceiling junction box was relocated so that a hanging fixture could be centered properly over an antique round table. Sisal provided a practical solution for the badly damaged floor, while a period-style push-button light switch introduced a small but deliberate architectural detail appropriate to the character of the house.

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Antiques gave the room history and permanence, while a tall Hollywood-style mirror introduced an unapologetically modern counterpoint. The contrast was intentional: the room was not conceived as a period interior, but as a personal space in which old and new could comfortably coexist.

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What began as an unwanted bedroom became something more individual—a room shaped not by its original label, but by the life imagined within it.

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