she took a deep breath and opened the door to the montrose-area home. "i walked in and thought, 'i'll never leave again,'" she said.

the living room is a focal point of the house. its' filled with a textured tone-on-tone overstuffed sofa, the romantic sette, an antique chair (with front and back upholstered in different fabrics) and a wingback chair that i reshaped by overstuffing it to give it more elegance.

"i was at a point in my life where i was going to have a geographic change or a face lift or something. i needed a change and it was easier to change my setting and that resulted in a changed perspective. i was about to complete my novel and i didn't want to come back to the same environment. kelly revealed my dream house to me. i felt like i walked into a place where i had always been."

- marsha recknagel

it was finished a month ago and, as with all the color, she loves it. large windows trimmed in white with white lacy curtains give relief to the red. new built-in bookshelves allow more books to be shelved, giving the room a cleaner appearance.