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The 7 best penny-pinching ways of Ikea's Ingvar Kamprad

"He wanted to appear a man of the people, one of us," wrote Kamprad’s former assistant.

By Amy Schellenbaum March 29, 2013

House Calls

A Rhode Island farmhouse that’s beachy without being ‘overly nautical’ The project started with a lucky meeting between homeowners and an architect.
A Back Bay brownstone that’s “highly, yet invisibly” functional The exterior is historic, but the interior was a blank canvas for mixing, blending, and composing.
Bringing pattern and color to a ‘simple box’ of a home in upstate New York The playful design—just look at that floor!—brought the community in.

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