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Rooms worth stealing ideas from.

The rooms, the paint colors, the furniture, and the design choices that pulled them together.

Living room, Maple & Main · Sherwin-Williams Rookwood Dark Green on the fireplace

Rookwood Dark Green painted brick fireplace in the Maple & Main living room, with a cream sectional and round wood coffee table
Room by room

Start with a room you love.

Maybe yours needs a paint color. Maybe it's the rug. Maybe you can't figure out why it still doesn't feel finished. Start with a room that feels right and steal the part that works for yours.

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King bedroom at Maple & Main with a wood canopy bed, olive throw and green velvet stools
King bedroom
Coffee bar at Maple & Main on a black cabinet, with a woven table lamp and a framed coffee print
The coffee bar
Queen bedroom at Maple & Main with Sherwin-Williams Ripe Olive walls, rust and green pillows
Queen bedroom
Bunk room at Maple & Main with Sherwin-Williams Turkish Coffee walls and two wood bunk beds
Bunk room
Design ideas

Sometimes it's one decision holding up the whole room.

The wrong-size rug. Furniture that all matches a little too well. Lighting that stops at the ceiling. These are the rules I use when a room isn't quite working.

Round wood coffee table in the Maple & Main living room, with a cream sectional and a Rookwood Dark Green accent wall
Living room · Maple & Main
Queen bedroom at Maple & Main with Sherwin-Williams Ripe Olive walls, rust and green pillows
Ripe Olive · Queen bedroom, Maple & Main
Paint

Don't choose a paint color from the little square.

See it on a wall first. Every color here is photographed on a wall at Maple & Main, so you can see what it looks like before you commit to the gallon.

  • Alabaster

    Walls
    Maple & Main

  • Rookwood Dark Green

    Fireplace
    Maple & Main

  • Ripe Olive

    Queen bedroom
    Maple & Main

  • Sierra Redwood

    Dining room
    Maple & Main

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Would I buy it again?

The Polly rug?
YES.

70 guest nights, 23 turnovers, still looks great. The checker hides spills, the synthetic fibers vacuum clean, and I'd buy a second for my own living room tomorrow.

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Chris Loves Julia x Loloi Polly checkered rug in beige and tobacco
Shop

You don't need 200 options.

Shop the edit

These are the ones I'd consider. Rugs, lighting, furniture, bedding and the smaller things that finish a room.

If I own it, I'll tell you. If I've only chosen it as a designer, I'll tell you that too. Some links earn me a commission; here's how that works.

Elizabeth Morton, interior designer in Fayetteville, West Virginia

Hi, I'm Elizabeth.

I'm an interior designer, and I'm pretty opinionated about what makes a room work and what's worth spending money on.

I've been designing rooms for years, including the four vacation rentals I run here in West Virginia. Which means when I tell you a rug is worth it, I've watched it through hundreds of guests.

So on this site you'll see what worked, what didn't, and what I'd choose if I were buying it today for my own home.

One email when there's something worth seeing.

A room that finally came together. A paint color worth saving. Something I'd buy again. Something I wouldn't.