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 2. Design


THE RIGHT WAY TO LAY OUT YOUR LIVING ROOM: THE 7 FORMULAS INTERIOR DESIGNERS
RELY ON


WHAT SIZE SHOULD THE RUG BE? HOW HIGH THE COFFEE TABLE?  DESIGN PROS DON’T JUST
WING IT. THEY FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES.

RULES OF THUMB Miniatures artist Michael Hogan, in Columbus, Ohio,
(@dollhouse_miniature_interiors) refers to classic interior design guidelines
when creating his ‘room boxes.’
By Kathryn O’Shea-Evans / Photographs by Nick Fancher for The Wall Street
Journal, Illustrations by Agata Wierzbicka
July 28, 2023 3:30 pm ET
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“DESIGNING A ROOM is like putting a puzzle together,” Paul Corrie, an interior
designer in Washington, D.C., told me. Despite my having interviewed dozens of
design wizards as a journalist, my own suburban Colorado living room remains
“unsolved.”

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