Headshots of celebrity patrons hang on a wall above the front dining room, including Liza Minnelli, George Stephanopoulos and Patrick Stewart.

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In the dining room I am working on, I plan to hang a single fantastic picture on one wall and smother the opposite wall with pictures a mix of Hugo Guinness paintings, the odd flea-market oil painting, a vintage poster and vintage sandpaper pictures I found in Paula Rubenstein's Manhattan shop.

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Still, we really liked a lot of the ideas and chose to focus on projects that could be done quickly, such as placing battery-operated lights in jars or vases in the windows instead of faux candles and filling clear-glass ornaments with confetti to hang on white tabletop trees as part of the dining-room-table centerpiece.

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