Turn your old attic into your favorite room

Country chic

Rustic wood beams provide the framework for built-in shelving in the attic bedroom of a 16th-century house in France's Loire Valley. A collection of wicker baskets is displayed alongside other flea-market finds.

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Prim & Proper

Michael Maher designed the pair of arched headboards for a guest room in his family's restored New Jersey Victorian. The coverlets are antique matelassé.

Rock the Boat

Belgian decorator Alex Flamant converted a boathouse by a pond into his guesthouse, transforming the attic into a bedroom. The whitewashed paneling and tricolor bedding and accessories give the space a nautical feel.

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Clean Cut

At artist Jean Pierre Raynaud's 19th-century chalet in Barbizon, France, architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte gave a top-floor bathroom a minimalist update, with clean-lined furnishings in black and white.

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Picture Perfect

Framed prints of British Royalty cover a wall in the master bedroom of a Water Mill, New York, farmhouse decorated by Nannette Brown. The 18th-century ebonized rope bed came from the Brimfield Antique Show in Massachusetts.

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True Blue

Designer Jacqueline Coumans sheathed the walls and ceiling of an attic bedroom in her Southampton, New York, cottage with a summery fern-print cotton fabric. The coverlet is made of an Indian Batik, and the 1960s wire chair was found at a flea market.