These include a French Provincial sofa with cream damask upholstery and two French-style wing chairs in his bedroom. Dyer changed the wing chairs' former blue fabric to a cream denim and painted the frames olive green with a gold-leaf highlight to give them a more Italian slant. He also switched from royal blue velvet to a leopard print on a bench that was his parents'. He now uses it as a coffee table in the living room. Dyer also put leopard fabric on the seats of two Chippendale side chairs behind the sofa.
Leopard goes with anything.
And rust goes with anything. Behind it is a large French poster for a liqueur in greens, golds and rusts on a black background. Greens also show up in Charleston reproduction porcelain plates on the living-room mantel. Yellows and rusts are carried over to other porcelain plates in Dyer's collection. He hung it on the wall behind the lowboy, and it pulled the look together.