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Article updated: 3/5/2011 10:23 AM

Every decor can be warmed with well-chosen antiques

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How's this for modern technology? It's an antique Victrola in Dee Schlagel's home.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

The living room in Dee Schlagel’s home features a cathedral ceiling and fieldstone fireplace.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

When Dee Schlagel got this rocking horse home from Pennsylvania, she learned it was made in Chicago.

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A butter churn is just one of the many antiques decorating Dee Schlagel’s home.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

Here is the dining room in Dee Schlagel’s country home, which is west of Burlington and St. Charles.

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The fireplace in Dee Schlagel’s family room is an old-fashioned walk-in type.

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For almost 200 years this sculpture was a beam in a barn that Dee Schlagel’s family owned in Naperville.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

About this Article

Designer Dee Schlagel lives in a great country house with pine floorboards that are 18 inches wide and a walk-in fireplacenear the kitchen in St. Charles, but she thinks every home, even the most contemporary, should have antiques.