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    Joe Trohman’s Home: Rocker Joe Trohman’s living room. The artwork is by Mark Ryden.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Joe Trohman’s Home: Contemporary classics furnish the living room (shown here) and dining room. A tribal headdress over the fireplace and a chalkboard wall keep the mood light.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Joe Trohman’s Home: “I love the bedroom because it’s a place to be lazy after I work really hard,” Trohman says.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
    Hair and Makeup: Martina Sykes
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    Julia Sweeney’s Home: Contemporary classics furnish the living room and dining room (shown here).
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Julia Sweeney
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Julia Sweeney’s Home: The quilt was made by her husband’s grandmother.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Julia Sweeney’s Home: “My big brilliant stroke was to hang a Mexican painting over the blinds of a dining room window that I never open because the house next door is too close,” Sweeney says.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Nate Berkus
    Photograph: HSN
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    Nate Berkus’s Home: He has a glamorous living room (shown here) but prefers to entertain in his library (next image), where friends eat Thai takeout on their laps. He loves being surrounded by the many books that have been given to him.
    Photograph: Pieter Estersohn
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    Nate Berkus’s Home: He has a glamorous living room (previous image) but prefers to entertain in his library (shown here), where friends eat Thai takeout on their laps. He loves being surrounded by the many books that have been given to him.
    Photograph: Pieter Estersohn
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    Nate Berkus’s Home: Berkus, who likes authentic vintage, kept the apartment’s original kitchen cabinets and painted them army green.
    Photograph: Pieter Estersohn
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    Alfonso Soriano’s Home: A rectangular crystal fixture in the entryway adds just the right amount of glitz without being over the top.
    Photograph: Nathan Kirkman
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    Alfonso Soriano’s Home: In both the media room and the living room (shown here), comfort (and plenty of TVs) is key.
    Photograph: Nathan Kirkman
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    Alfonso Soriano’s Home: In both the media room (shown here) and the living room, comfort (and plenty of TVs) is key.
    Photograph: Nathan Kirkman
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    Alfonso Soriano
    Photograph: Stephen Green/Chicago Cubs
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    Leslie Hindman’s Home: Hindman hopes to turn the barn (with its vaulted dining area, shown here) and the attached silo into her primary home someday.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
    Hair and Makeup: Martina Sykes
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    Leslie Hindman’s Home: Hindman hopes to turn the barn (with its vaulted dining area) and the attached silo into her primary home someday. Until then, she spends most of her time in the living room of the farm’s main house (shown here), built in the 19th century.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Leslie Hindman’s Home: When Hindman first saw the eccentric pool on the ground floor of the silo on her property, she considered filling it in, but friends convinced her to restore it.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Regina Taylor’s Home: Taylor’s apartment is filled with the art she collects. Shown here: a painting by Chicagoan Robert Pruitt
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
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    Regina Taylor’s Home: Taylor, best known as Lilly Harper in the TV series I’ll Fly Away, with her beloved cat, Coltrane, chose her home for its city and lake views.
    Photograph: Bob Coscarelli
    Hair and Makeup: Martina Sykes
Photos: Homes of the Stars
January 18, 2011, 4:26 pm
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