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Lodge Room

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By Robrt Pela, Special to HGTV.com
The gorgeous scenery on the drive up U.S. Highway 40 from Denver into Winter Park, Colo., doesn’t end when you reach the 2007 HGTV Dream Home. Walking up the river rock steps to the front porch, you’re surrounded by fragrant green pine trees and magnificent blue skies. Colorado’s colors and textures continue throughout the house, thanks to interior designer Linda Woodrum’s commitment to bringing the outdoors in.
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"I want visitors to have that ‘Ah!’ moment when they walk in the front door," Woodrum says, "and that wonderful sense that they’re in a mountain house. But I did everything I could to stay away from ski-lodge clichés."

Woodrum has succeeded masterfully. The home’s wide spaces, rustic exposed beams and trusses were her inspiration. She’s called on nature’s colors without, as she says, "filling the house with brown furniture and Loden green. I can’t improve on nature, so I contrasted its palette."

Just inside the door of the Dream Home, a polyptych painting depicting the journey from Denver to the ski town covers one wall. The piece is done in the deep blue Woodrum used throughout the lower level of the house. Behind the door, an old barn wood desk that mirrors the rustic timbers on the ceiling is piled with antique lanterns and an oil painting of a bison.

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Design is all about contrasting surfaces, Woodrum believes, and she’s achieved high contrast in the living room of the house — known as the "lodge room" — with the earthy matte tones of the upholstery and wood, which play off the metal and glass of the windows. The result is a living room that’s rustic yet sophisticated; wide-open and still cozy. Comfortable overstuffed wing chairs and a sofa covered in blue, cotton velvet sport plaid throw pillows are reminiscent of a lumberjack’s flannel shirt. A dainty French chest of drawers near the window is all curvy lines hewn from knotty, bleached pine — another combination of the grace and rusticity found throughout the house.

The contrast of textures and colors continues in the mocha-tinted Berber carpeting atop the dark, knotty hardwood floors; the brunette wicker of the coffee table; and the sleek, tufted ottoman upholstered in the same velvet as the sofa. The ottoman is perched before a stunning stacked stone fireplace that dominates the room.
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HGTV Dream Home 2007 in Winter Park, Colo.
Despite that gorgeous fireplace, the most interesting element in the room is the rough-hewn wood beams that cross a ceiling painted the same color as the walls. A wooden tray of silver candelabras on the coffee table is one of Woodrum’s favorite details in the room. "I love a little shot of shine," she says. "You can get it with sterling silver, mercury glass or mirrors."

Where ski lodges often feature taxidermy as a decorative accent, the Dream Home living room brings wildlife indoors in a more humane way: faux deer antler candleholders and a pair of bird nests in glass boxes.

"You can bring a rustic feel to a room," Woodrum says, "but you want to make sure that a rustic room still invites people in."

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