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Diamond in the Rough

Assistant Decorating Editor Anne Turner Carroll grabbed this channel-back chair from the basement of a friend who was moving.

"Hand-me-downs have great potential," she says. "Don't let ugly fabric fool you―old chairs can be a diamonds in the rough."

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