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In the dining room, soft-gray walls allow Randy's collections to take center stage. Pastel enamelware pitchers stand in line on top of a vintage restaurant counter; Randy discovered a dozen of the early-20th-century vessels in a French flea market and brought them all home. Finding a matching set of chairs for the 10-foot dining table was difficult, so Randy purchased 14 varied side chairs at a country auction and painted them white. "They look right together because all the chairs are about the same height," he says. Each compartment of the corner cupboard Is painted a different hue, Infusing the space with extra hints of color. GlASSWARE: FISHS EDDY. FLATWARE: HOTEL.

Left: Well-worn surfaces unify both the kitchen's freestanding cupboard and the work island on new castors. After spotting the ANTIQUES sign on a New York City building slated for demolition, Randy placed a phone call to the building's owner, who told him he could have it if he carted it away. The 1940s stove cost $50 in a Pennsylvania junk shop and worked like a charm from the start. Above right top: The 1920s pine-topped store counter-cum- work island hails from Iowa. Above right bottom: Randy chose a greenish- gray paint to coat the door- and window frames in the kitchen, one of the only rooms in which woodwork had ever been painted. The1940s portrait was a $5 flea market find; the bowback chair beneath it dates to the late 1800s.

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