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Summer Facelift

Give your home a summer facelift. Add strokes of color and fashionable swatches of fabric to energize rooms.

By Oma Blaise Ford; Photographs by Steven McDonald

Couch with Three Pastel Blankets
 

Sofa Scarves

Give your sofa a colorful update. Drape swaths of color -- pretty wraps, scarves, or throws -- in neat rows across the back of a sofa (left). Tuck the wraps behind the back cushions to keep them in place. Choose a tone-on-tone color range, or go for a bold statement of mixed hues.

Monogrammed Nap Blankets



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