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or a woman w ho’s all about glamour
in decorating—“It’s the first thing I
gravitate to”—Leslie Sachs is
surprisingly laid-back. She doesn’t
cringe when cats Zsa Zsa and Dugan
claw the furniture. She uses the
dining table to fold laundry. And she
and her husband, Rick Negron, simply pull the
Regency side table up to their pink linen-velvet sofa
and eat dinner in the living room. W hat gives? “I think
everybody should live in a glamorous house that makes
them feel special,” Leslie says. “But I’m casual about
it. I like things approachable and straightforward.”
Leslie, a designer, jump-started the decorating of
her Glendale, California, home in the most basic way,
choosing paint colors first. She stuck to a fairly
narrow (and feminine-leaning) palette of pink, green,
and brown but varied the shades to change the mood
from room to room. “Colors create an energy,” Leslie
says. The living room, swathed in “pure milky fudge,”
seems to call the couple to curl up on the sofa. It’s a
different story in the kitchen, w here a lively avocado
inspires the avid cooks. And lacquered in cream, the
curvy formal antiques Leslie used throughout the
home aren’t so pretentious. “It changes their
personality completely,” she says. Even Rick, who
jokes that years of acting classes have put him in
touch w ith his feminine side, says the decor is a
happy marriage between glamour and livability. “It
has vibrancy and comfort,” he says.
WARM AND WELCOMING “The living room wouldn’t have the
same personality without the brown walls,” Leslie Sachs says.
“They make it warm and moody.” The brown, along with the
pale pink ceiling and trim, accommodate vibrant color in the
furniture and accessories. Turquoise adds an element of
surprise as an accent.
BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS
FEBRUARY 2010
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