10 Ways to Make a Design Statement in 2013

Photo by: Alec Hemer

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Put up a painting and don't worry about whether it won't completely mesh with the space. "You don't need the approval of others if you're confident it's right," designer Mica Ertegun says. "I might have commented once or twice that I wasn't crazy about where my client wanted to hang a painting, but the truth is that good art doesn't look wrong anywhere." In this simple, elegant East Hampton, New York, living room, a

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Photo by: Alec Hemer

Add Art

Put up a painting and don't worry about whether it won't completely mesh with the space. "You don't need the approval of others if you're confident it's right," designer Mica Ertegun says. "I might have commented once or twice that I wasn't crazy about where my client wanted to hang a painting, but the truth is that good art doesn't look wrong anywhere." In this simple, elegant East Hampton, New York, living room, a wildly colorful painting by Beatriz Milhazes hangs above the fireplace.

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