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 Whenever Nedra Davis has free time, she W spends it decorating-and redecorating-her house. "I'm constantly swapping things out," says the nonprofit marketing and communications director and mom of two. "We're talking every few weeks I'll change the art or the pillows or the rugs!" She's making up for lost time, because before she bought this 1,400-square-foot brick townhouse in Bowie, MD, she was a renter. "I was in my last rental for six years and didn't even experiment with paint because in my head, it wasn't mine," she says. When this 1991 Colonial hit the market, she found the perfect place to embrace her obsession with color and DIY projects. The owner had kept the house in meticulous shape, but the style was "uninviting and very, very dark," Nedra says. "All the brown had to go-blue and pink and green are my love language!" She transformed the kitchen with crafty paint hacks and moved through the house, brightening each space and layering in luxe fabrics and funky vintage finds. "My house is my playground," she says. And she loves the results...at least for now!
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living room Nedra's first big purchase for her house was this blue velvet sectional from Interior Define. "It's where my girlfriends and I sit and relax with a glass of wine," she says. Pinkish pillows from Loloi add to the ahhh factor and match the blush tones in the Rugs USA carpet. The wood console table, a Craigslist score, is one of the only things Nedra brought with her from her rental home. She loves that piece almost as much as she loves Sasha, her fiddle-leaf fig.
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kitchen I thought a lot about how to refresh this room while spending the least amount of money," says Nedra. She gave the cabinets new life with the same Sherwin-Williams paint she used on her shutters, then created a checkerboard pattern with tile paint to cover the dingy brown floor. Finally, she googled "can you paint counters?" and found a faux-marble kit from Giani. "It lightened the whole space!" she says.
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dining room when Nedra saw this tasseled chandelier, she had to have it. "It's a bit boho for a dining room and sets a more relaxed tone," she says. The jewel-toned snake rug, from Ruggable, and faux leather Homary chairs are equally unexpected. Nedra put two glossy white IKEA storage units together for a credenza and installed molding to add drama to the gallery wall featuring Black portraiture.
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bathroom "After sharing a bathroom for years, I was so excited to have my own space!" says Nedra.
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She put her stamp on it with crane-patterned peel-and-stick wallpaper, then revamped a brown vanity by painting the base Naval by Sherwin-Williams and using a white gloss epoxy spray on the counter.

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