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"The Best Before &amp;amp; Afters from the AD Archives\nFor two decades Architectural Digest has been documenting renovation projects by top designers in signature Before &amp;amp; After features. Here, a second look at some of our favorites\nA Manhattan kitchen.\nDecorator Juan Montoya's handsome revamp of a Manhattan kitchen jettisons flower-pattern wallpaper, white cabinets, and scarlet tiles in favor of an inviting scheme of laminated Douglas fir. Marble provides a luxurious accent\u2014richly veined for the backsplash and sink surround and parchment-pale for the floor (2006).\n\nSee the full renovation.\nA St. Barts living room.\nIn a St. Barts house improved by its owners, designer Dick Fallin and journalist Dena Kaye, picture windows and sliding louvered doors liberate the formerly claustrophobic living room. The sun-drenched space now takes in a 270-degree tropical vista, whose lush vegetation inspired the couple to replace the terra-cotta-tile floor with resin in a refreshing silvery green (2006).\n\nSee the full renovation.\nA California library.\nInterior designer Sally Sirkin Lewis lined a graceless bay in a 1980s house in Carmel Valley, California, with shelves to create a grand modern library. The central window was knocked out and French doors were introduced to connect the renovated room with the mountainous landscape (2005).\n\nSee the full renovation.\nA Boston living room.\nA gloomy living room in Boston brightens up in the hands of architect Ray Pohl and interior designer Elissa Cullman. In addition to painting the walls a warm yellow, the pair installed bolder crown molding as well as a formal marble mantel with complementary golden accents (2006).\n\nSee the full renovation.\nA New York City kitchen.\nCabinet doors scaled to the window muntins establish visual continuity in a New York City kitchen by architectural designer Peter Napolitano and decorator Thomas Britt. A silver papered ceiling enhances the airiness, and a sculptural fireplace lends a mod touch (2007).\n\nSee the full renovation.\nA New York City study.\nAt a brownstone in New York City, architect Campion Platt transformed a characterless dining room into a welcoming study. He designed the hearty metal mantel to match the new French doors; darkened ceiling beams tie the scheme together (2003).\n\nSee the full renovation.\nAn East Hampton bungalow.\nShingles, a tower, and Greek Doric columns take architect Robert A.M. Stern's 1930s bungalow in East Hampton, New York, from tract to triumph. The original entrance is now a loggia, and a new front porch, at far left, is masked by a hedge; oval windows elegantly punctuate the fa\u00E7ade (1994).\nA Manhattan duplex.\nBreaking down walls allowed architect Alexander Gorlin to create a multipurpose heart in an art-collecting couple's Manhattan duplex facing Central Park. The new L-shaped space, decorated by John Barman in an Art Deco mode, combines a living room, library, and music area (2002).\n\nSee the full renovation."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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