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    A Bland Bedroom Gets Personality: Steal the Look

    In the bedroom of an architecturally lackluster 1960s ranch, an interior designer creates an anti-generic sanctuary. You can, too

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    The challenge for homeowners not lucky enough to score a finely detailed brownstone or an A-plus midcentury abode: escaping the doldrums of an architecturally featureless room. Los Angeles interior designer Amber Lewis faced such a tabula rasa in a client’s vacation getaway, a 1960s ranch house in Ojai, Calif. “We’d gutted the whole thing, and the homeowner didn’t want it to feel new and shiny, like a spec house,” she said.

    Ms. Lewis infused the bedroom with personality by introducing her take on what she calls California...