Home Improvement

A den, study or home office should be protected from house hold noise and traffic. Just how you protected you want it to be depends on the work you’ll be doing and on your powers concentration. Some people need tomblike silence and blank brick walls to get their thoughts flowing; others prefer a bit of background babble and a window with a view. If you plan to bang away at a typewriter until dawn you’ll want to protect the rest of the house hold from your racket, either by distance or by sound absorbent materials like insulation or acoustical tiles. A wall of books will help deaden sound too and all you need is home improvement. (more…)

Only a low home improvement separates the den area from the rest of the house. Plaid wallpaper on the beams caries over into the kitchen and dining rooms to link the three areas. The country-style furnishings proffer a casual welcome to anyone who enters the den. Design: William Kefauver.

Climb to the top of this house and you’ll find yourself in a combination den and study with a spectacular view on three sides. You’ll feel as though (more…)

As comfortable as an old shoe, as handsome as a leather chesterfield-that’s the essence of a den.

More casual than a study, more private than the family room, the den depends on décor and furnishings to create the right atmosphere. The room should cater to your comfort. Overstuffed chairs, recliners, ottomans to prop up your feet, warm pools of light reflecting off (more…)