DECOR

BY SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN

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PHOTOS BY BRETT MOUNTAIN

SUITE DREAMS

Designers' show home tour benefits healing environments for sick kids.

The dining room area of the Suite

Dreams Project show home.

nterior designers, like
Amy Miller Weinstein of
Birmingham, know there
can be more purpose
behind designing new spaces than
creating elegant, elaborate sur-
roundings.
Sometimes, the benefit to oth-
ers sparks a plan.
Weinstein is part of a volunteer
corps that recently designed three
newly redeveloped 40-year-old
condominiums at Waterfall Hill at
Quarton Lake in Birmingham.

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The homes served as fund-raising
sites for the "Suite Dreams Project
2004 ShowHouse: A Series of City
Show Homes."
Proceeds from tours of the
homes go toward benefiting chil-
dren served by Rochester-based
Suite Dreams, a charity organiza-
tion that funds the creation of
bedrooms, playrooms and other
healing environments for sick chil-
dren in homes, hospitals and com-
munity facilities.
Weinstein worked on one of the

homes — each priced at more than
$1.59 million — along with Jeffrey
G. King, her partner in Jeffrey •
King Interiors in Birmingham,
where she is also vice president.
Richard Ross, formerly a designer
with Jeffrey King Interiors, also
collaborated with them.
Weinstein was involved in all
areas of the two-level house,
which she described as "classic
modernism." In addition to ameni-
ties — a home office, exercise
room and full walk-out lower level

— "each home has a bedroom that
is geared toward what a Suite
Dreams recipient might want,"
she said.
The conclusion of the show on
Oct. 17 did not mean the end of
Suite Dreams involvement for
Weinstein and King.
"Suite Dreams makes contact
with families who have a child
who is sick, then invites a design
group to create a space for the
child," said Weinstein, a graduate

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