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Finally, there's a scale that weight-conscious Americans can do something about. The furniture scale.

It seems our living rooms and dens are overstuffed with furniture too wide, too deep and too heavy for the surroundings, and it has some interior designers ready to put homeowners on a decorating diet.

"The most important thing in a room is scale and proportion, and if you don't get that right, no matter how beautiful the furnishings are it's not going to work," laments Carol Swetman of Swetman Design in Atlanta. "It's not easy these days when some of the rooms are so large and the ceilings so high," says Swetman, who is a member of the American Society of Interior Designers.



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