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Starting
with the
Sofa
A humble piece of furniture can
inspire an entire design plan
WRITTEN BY CINDY SCHWEICH HANDLER
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF CHRIS MARKSBURY
W
hen her future clients
walked into Wayne’s White
House Living, the furnishing
store where Veronica Pluta
is an interior designer, they
didn’t know what style they
were interested in, only that their newly-expand-
ed home needed a floor-to-ceiling design. “They
had done construction on their home, and we
were starting from scratch,” she says. “The mas-
ter bedroom just had a mattress in it.”
SETTING THE TONE
Pluta walked the homeowners through the store, which
features the work of more than 100 custom furniture-makers.
“Every design starts with a source of inspiration, and in this
case it was a sofa made by a manufacturer called Vanguard
Furniture,” Pluta says. “It told me a lot about what they like:
clean lines, sophistication, comfort and style all in one.” The
sofa’s Revere Pewter color combines the warmth of beige and
the cool of gray, and, with its orange accent pillows, estab-
lishes the décor scheme of the house – neutral, with pops of
brightness. The 125-inch-long sofas offer ample seating in the
family room, whose long walls extend into the kitchen, and
are covered in grass clo th wallpaper.
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