Country Sampler

FITTING into Place

Country Homes SHOWCASE

Three's Company

Plan decorative accessories—even the lighting—in trios to prevent your displays from looking forced. Stack boxes, overturn bowls and line up baskets in groups of three, as Lynn and Rob Erbesti do in their breakfast room. Draw the eye upward with more prominent objects. Lynn's lineup of a butter churn, firkin and dry measures fit nicely atop a stepback cupboard. Finally, bring unique one-offs into the scheme, such as a primitive butcher block or youth chair.

that when one door closes, another one opens. For Lynn and Rob Erbesti, however, it took two closed doors and a giant leap of faith in 2017 to put them on the right path in Sevierville, Tennessee. “My husband's job transferred him here from

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