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AN UNDERGRADUATE GUIDE TO Interior Decorating

She also has an old card catalog box from Widener Library, full of tapes, and a "velvet" copy of the Mona Lisa on the wall outside her room.

"It's always good to have a fuzzy Mona Lisa beside your door," she says.

Weisman has toured 50 rooms so far, and will probably select 10 or 20 victors to showcase in the spring.

The "Playing With Space" judges are planning a photography show in the Yard, and a possible video in the Carpenter Center or Science Center, for April.

"There's no rush," she says. "I'd rather it mature over time."

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Weisman says she wants to make the showing as public as possible in order to "expose art in a very open way, so people can stumble across it."

She also wants "a few words to accompany the image. That doesn't take away from the room," she says. "It enhances it, it doesn't define it."

During the first months of her room search, Weisman has been both disappointed by and excited with what the group has found.

"There aren't so far a lot of incredible rooms," she says. "But there are some very good rooms."

"At first I was worried that there would be too many rooms," she says. "Now I'm not so concerned."

She attributes some of her findings to the fact that people are signing up their own rooms instead of revealing their friends' decorative achievements.

"What people think is incredible isn't necessarily so incredible because there's no way of evaluating how your room compares with other people's rooms," she says.

Weisman says the group has found women's rooms to be nicer and more interesting than men's.

"Maybe that's a personal prejudice," she says. "But there seems to be a lot more time invested in the women's rooms."

Weisman also says that the group's reactions to rooms have had little to do with size or architecture.

"Some of the smallest spaces are some of the grandest," she says. "They reflect those people's backgrounds, their personal history."

"You weave your way through these rooms. They seem very big. It's magical somehow," she says. "Suddenly you feel you're somehow in a different land."

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