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A Classic Bungalow Gets a Modern Makeover

A decorator with a taste for modern furniture and old-school glamour concocts a fizzy blend for her family’s Birmingham, Alabama, bungalow.

Tile Work McMillan’s son, John, plays on the landing of the staircase to the upstairs bedrooms. In keeping with the family room’s metal accents, McMillan covered the risers with metallic tile and encased the bottom stairs in brushed stainless steel. Tile: Ann Sacks [http://www.annsacks.com/onlinecatalog/program.jsp?cat=268004&coll=268404&prg=275804]
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McMillan’s son, John, plays on the landing of the staircase to the upstairs bedrooms. In keeping with the family room’s metal accents, McMillan covered the risers with metallic tile and encased the bottom stairs in brushed stainless steel.

Tile: Ann Sacks

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McMillan applied large-scale metallic wallpaper over one wall of the family room. “It is expensive,” says McMillan, “so I only used it on one wall.” The large-scale lampshades help fill in the tall vertical space. Resilient fabric on the sofa makes the room kid-proof.
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McMillan removed all upper cabinets in her kitchen redo and ran subway tile all the way to the ceiling. “Then there were these vast walls to fill, so I framed these photographs. But I didn’t want to pierce the tile to hang them. I had these metal shelves just lying around, so I turned them on their sides and propped the photographs against the wall, and it worked,” she says. The counters are stained walnut, and the cabinets are a lacquered finish with bronze pulls.
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9 of 14Tile Work McMillan’s son, John, plays on the landing of the staircase to the upstairs bedrooms. In keeping with the family room’s metal accents, McMillan covered the risers with metallic tile and encased the bottom stairs in brushed stainless steel. Tile: Ann Sacks [http://www.annsacks.com/onlinecatalog/program.jsp?cat=268004&coll=268404&prg=275804]




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