Make Large Rooms Cozy with Multiple Seating Areas

How do you make a gigantic room look cozy and appropriate for today when it's actually an old Virginia cow barn?

Steven Gambrel, one of America's top-tier interior designers, recently had a chance to consider the question. Although he lives and often works in the most urbane precincts of Manhattan, Steven grew up in Virginia and still has ties there. When the owners of a Middleburg horse farm asked him to convert one of their barns into a place for large, casual parties and just hanging out and watching TV, he took it on with relish—his first barn, and on home turf.

• See Steven's Barn Decorating Ideas