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" Barbara King: There&amp;#039;s a lot of graphic action here, including on your arm. Seth Stevens: I really do like graphics, and I love black and white and gray \u2014 my favorite paint color is Farrow &amp;amp;amp; Ball&amp;#039;s Pavilion Gray. It&amp;#039;s a palette I use all the time, usually with a pop of red. There are colors that come and go, like purple or teal or orange, but these colors are timeless, and I&amp;#039;m a big advocate of timeless \u2014 even in the way I dress, right down to my carryall bag. It&amp;#039;s a classic mason-bag design from a line I had that I&amp;#039;m relaunching, but personalized with a hand-drawn snake, my Chinese zodiac animal. Is the tattoo your walk on the wild side? Here&amp;#039;s the deal: The image on my arm represents my astrological sign, Scorpio. I&amp;#039;ve got other tattoo symbols in tribute to my parents and my siblings \u2014 I have seven brothers and one sister. You must have had a house full of bedrooms. Not really. The boys slept four to a room, in bunk beds. Was it liberating to finally have your own room? Exhilarating, because I&amp;#039;m an organization freak. You can look in any drawer and see that everything has a place. What would I see in your bedside drawers? In one, my iPad, hand cream, odds and ends. In the other, pajamas. I always sleep in a full set. Is there anything else you always do? I always use white sheets with at least a 600 thread count. Anything lower and I can feel the fiber. And I always have Ikea cord dimmers on all my bedroom lamps. What was on your mind when you styled your bedroom? Sort of a California-Southwest feel, even though I&amp;#039;m on the 34th floor of a midcentury modern building in Chicago. The idea was to create the sense of a light-filled desert environment \u2014 Palm Springs, maybe \u2014 close to nature. And yet you block the light with shutters. That&amp;#039;s a solid wall behind the shutters. Instead of having a headboard, I thought they would make an amazing backdrop. There are curtainless windows to my right. I lie here at night looking at the stars, like I&amp;#039;m on a California beach. And I wake up with the sun. Sum up the room&amp;#039;s mood.  Creative, intimate, and passionate. A lot of love went into it. Make the Bed... 600-thread-count Grand Resort sheets: sears.com. Palais Royale Hotel Collection duvet: bedbathandbeyond.com. Pick-stitch quilt: potterybarn.com. Similar styles to navy- and-white throw: pendleton-usa.com. Vintage bedside table, plaster lamp, shutters: scoutchicago.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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