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Home 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. > WAYNE MAGAZINE BACK TO SCHOOL 2017 39