In Your Space This home in Marlboro belongs to an "empty nest" couple who is getting ready to move to a smaller home, after 31 years of raising a family and making special memories here. Interior decorator Sheila Rich of Sheila Rich Interiors, Marlboro, helped to make this ordinary house into a beautiful home with her professional touch. "You don't need to put a huge addition onto your home; you just need to make the spaces that you have flow and find ways to open them up," she says. Many of the entryways in this home were enlarged to make the rooms open up to each other more. Also, mirrors are used throughout this home to give depth to smaller areas. The main focal point of this home is the kitchen with a sunroom addition, which has a wall and ceiling of windows. To be in the kitchen is to have the feeling of being outdoors. "The view of the outside is pretty during all four seasons," Rich says. The kitchen has a fruit-and-flower theme, ornate tile on the walls, crisp white cabinets and terra cotta flooring. Among the points of interest in the large living room are a lovely window seat, a baby grand piano, and a brick fireplace. The room is primarily decorated in Asian dcor, with some contemporary and antique pieces added to create an interesting look. In the dining room a wall of mirrors helps to make the room appear larger than it really is. The dining room table is placed at an angle for more space and for an element of interest. This room has a window seat, a glass table with Louis XIV chairs, a French armoire, and a unique light fixture - brass gas lamps that were converted to electricity. The family room is a cozy spot for gatherings. The point of interest in this room is floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the brick fireplace, and a 16-foot solid oak mantle that goes across the wall of windows. The master bedroom is "an experiment of mixing and matching," according to Rich. It features old and new pieces of furniture, including a wrought iron bed frame, an antique, mahogany, Regency lady's writing table, which is used as a night table, and a few other interesting pieces of furniture. There is also an inviting window seat in this room. Clockwise from top right: The living room is primarily decorated in an Asian theme. A couple of the centerpieces of the living room are the Asian screen and the antique writing desk. The dining room features a mix of old and new, with an antique gas lamp light fixture, Louis XIV chairs, a French armoire, and a contemporary glass table. "Any combination can work as long as the furnishings fit the space and have the right relationship with the area," Rich says. Two other bedrooms used to belong to the couple's grown children, and are where they stay when they come to visit. The homeowner allowed the children to design their own rooms during their teen years, and among their "cool" ideas is a built-in platform bed and a wall-long desk. A fourth bedroom is used as an office.u Clockwise from top right: The focal point of this home is the eating area of the kitchen, which is a sunroom. There is a step-up platform bed in the bedroom that used to belong to the homeowners' son. There is a baby grand piano as well as a cozy window seat in the living room. The kitchen has white cabinets, tiled walls, and terra cotta flooring.