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Article updated: 10/8/2011 9:37 AM

LaGrange couple blends early American and modern pieces to create own style

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Rosemary and Ray Winters' dining room has painted thumback Windsor chairs around a contemporary table. Ray painted the abstract picture and made the sideboard.

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The American Chippendale sofa was probably upholstered at one point, but Rosemary Winters left it the way she found it, adding her signature red pad and pillows. The blanket chest from the 1700s is pine with chip carving.

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A Chippendale slant front desk stands in Ray and Rosemary Winters’ entry hall under a pastel portrait.

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Color — specifically a vibrant red — is one of Rosemary Winters’ secrets to mixing contemporary and antique furniture.

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Believe it or not, this staircase is not what made Rosemary and Ray Winters purchase their LaGrange home. They were smitten by a small sunroom at the end of their entry hall.

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An unusual English corner cupboard from the early 1700s hangs above a drysink in the Winters’ LaGrange dining room.

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Rosemary and Ray Winters show the living room of their LaGrange home. They bought the old ship’s painting at the same time they purchased the house, then found it fit perfectly within the paneling above the fireplace.

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Doris Stauble was a New England antiques dealer who bought a whole warehouse full of Victorian millinery supplies. She used them to create arrangements like this in antique containers.

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You may have seen Kohler sinks like this everywhere, but Ray Winters designed it 50 years ago.

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About this Article

Anyone who considers living with antiques a challenge could take lessons from Rosemary Winters, who decorated her Tudor home elegantly with early American antiques — many wearing painted country finishes. Years ago Winters preferred contemporary furniture. Not only that, her husband, Ray, is an industrial designer who made some of the contemporary pieces that stand alongside Rosemary's antiques.