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Decorating the Family Room

Bob visits the home's airy, light-filled basement family room. The house, which is built on a sloping lot, allows the basement level to open directly to the backyard. Leslie Curtis brings in touches of color in all her rooms and the basement is no exception. On the walls a soft, sunny yellow, "Evening Primrose" from Bob Vila's Signature Series paints was chosen. The floor covering, a Dupont Stain Master carpet in a neutral color, features Miracle Fibre technology, a process that puts color into the chemical blend of the carpet's yarn so that it maintains its hue throughout the lifespan of the rug. The denim khaki-clad sofa and chairs are from the Eddie Bauer Home Collection. Bob shows off the family room's entertainment system that features a Panasonic 42-inch flat screen TV with a DVD player/recorder with Replay TV.
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Decorating the Family Room

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" Here we are in the basement but it's a pretty special basement stuff family room. And one of the key things is that we're on sloping grade we've built -- house that benefits from you know -- basement space on one side on the other side you've got the great outdoors and a so what choices did you make in here first."

" Well the first choice was choosing evening primrose for our color which is a sunny color but soft. It's a soft yellow soft yellow which will make even a gloomy day seem bright you. And we chose this wonderful DuPont Stainmaster neutral carpet. The color is put into into the fired into the fiber before it's woven actually hand and say don't have any fading problems and the pattern on this carpet will not wear out."

" With these miracle fibers even if you spill the Coke and the mustard off the heart sunk shank like things up and this is under off kids' space teenagers is actually kids' space. And messy adults right Kelly how the furniture in here is. I asked line from Eddie Bauer yes and it is relaxed it's very cozy and it's comfortable covered in this with an unhappy. -- look okay. So it's terrific stuff. Lounge around have a pillow fight and this is actually leather right -- gonna -- that covered."

" Ottoman coffee table in -- and we have some very simple arts and crafts style."

" Furniture accents from resides an interesting concept because it's a coffee table but it's also place to sit down in the way they -- and the cost of raising trades."

" Absolutely trays and and I think to you can put books magazines on here such cost two -- yet. But what you do throughout the places to bring in color -- they brought in color with these allowing chairs with the -- promise not fabric from British -- again he pennies -- chairs are eighteen century design actually found -- about no -- allowing about in the family around -- the elephant and everything has its color yellow is brought up right through here it's quite cheerful I think."

" So never be afraid to mix in something wild never be afraid when he's going to basically neutrals everywhere in the room we do. And of course our focus here is in our -- on our terrific job Panasonic. Dvd. Which I think we've probably got something in it that we can play."

" This is a 41 inch Panasonic. That's geared for high definition TV it's got surround sound it's got it's got the works. And one of the neat things here at this coupled with a dvd. Which will record to the hard disk up or fifty hours of movies programming whatever. You can then later put on to a regular disk great features of sailing around. Expression you got a large family -- different tastes in TV viewing."

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