After years of listening to Oprah tell viewers, "Your home should rise up to meet you," Oprah Winfrey Show producer Ellen Rakieten enlisted the help of her designer friends Nate Berkus and Anne Coyle to redesign her Chicago home.
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A corner of the living room is furnished with an antique pedestal table, a button-back armchair found at a flea market, and an elegant pale dove gray sofa.
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A pair of antique leopard-print footstools and a black- and white-striped wingback chair provide accents to the pale gray scheme of the living room.
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An antique pedestal table atop a herringbone rug takes center stage in the entrance hall. The same striking pattern covers a pair of hall chairs that sit on either side of a gilted mirror and console table.
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The wooden paneling of a snug, informal living room is painted in black lacquer and covered in a wide-ranging collection of framed paintings and prints.
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Two chairs and a cozy, upholstered banquette surround an original Saarinen table base with a custom-built stainless-steel top in the pristine white kitchen.
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Perhaps the most exciting part of the house is Rakieten's dressing room, where a vintage chandelier hangs above a Poillerat-style table and patchwork cowhide rug.
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In the dressing room, panels upholstered in pale gray linen are used as a pin board for correspondence and to display jewelery.
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The duck-egg blue and pale dove gray of the cloudlike master bedroom are accentuated by soft white carpets and bedding, an Anne Coyle Lucite bench, and a vintage Bagues chandelier.
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A pair of latticework Chippendale chairs that have been reupholstered in a contemporary blue and white Madeline Weinrib fabric sit at the custom-built desk in front of a hessian pin board in the study.
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This boy's bedroom features a masculine monogrammed bed linen and throw, both designed by Hermès.
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Open shelves on the cork-covered wall in the boy's bedroom display a collection of balls above a vintage desk.
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