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Asbury Park PressSunday, September 14, 1986 B5 'V -Cv Vv, 'i 4 i-JX- ft ft 1 --Oil 5 -3 1 1 i irniimiaiiiiiii imiiiimii 1 iri i i i i ni.mii i.r The barn red colonial home of Thomas and Shirley Williams is nestled among trees on their one-acre lot in Wayside, Ocean Township. Traveling adds to style 'mix' The Williams, in oriental dress acquired on their travels, pose in their formal dining room furnished with cherry Italian Provincial pieces. At right, an antique china closet once belonging to Mrs. Williams' grandmother holds Lladro, Lenox, jade and sentimental pieces. f--'f- 1 1 i if Lets Visit room, to the left.

Short plush carpeting in canyon sunset covers the floors in both rooms, as well as the stairs and upstairs halL The living room, which contains French Provincial furniture in frui-twood, is "formal, but lived in," Mrs. Williams said. "I like it that way. I do a lot of entertaining." Above a gold, three-piece sectional sofa hangs an oval, gilt-edged mirror. Chairs are covered in ivory and pale green brocades.

The coffee table holds an ornate red ginger jar with gilt trim that the Williams had custom made in Kyoto, Japan. The draperies are gold raw silk flecked with green. The nautical theme is picked up in the living room through an Armana Broussier oil painting of a seascape and a lamp with a base in the shape of a small boy holding a conch shell to his ear. The base is gold and the pale shade contains a border shell motif. The oldest piece of furniture in the room is an antique china closet that belonged to Mrs.

Williams' grandmother. Framing the beveled glass doors are carved griffins, a mythical animal that is half Hon, half eagle. The glass and carved-oak piece displays a Lladro swan and cygnet, Lenox and other china, tiny jade and china figurines and pieces of sentimental value, such as Mrs. Williams' grandmother's flowered soup tureen and her great-grandmother's vegetable dish. The furniture in the formal dining room is cherry Italian provincial and includes a buffet, brealdront and server.

The chairs are covered in a pale gold, silk brocade and the draperies match those in the living room. Mrs. Williams' oriental-patterned china belonged to her great-grandmother and is often used to serve the Chinese dishes she enjoys preparing. The server holds a vase and ginger jar that the Williams purchased in a village outside Hong Kong, and below it is displayed a gold and white urn they f. i Let's Visit tips sought THE PRESS welcomes recom mendations for this column.

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07754. Include the owner's name, ad dress and teleohone urn her if known, and a brief description of the home. V. In the living room, a gold French brocades on chairs. Draperies are Press Photos By David T.

Gamble found on a trip to Greece. Mrs. Williams describes the spacious eat-in kitchen as "basic colonial." "We spend most of our time in the kitchen," Williams said, his wife describing the kitchen as "the room we enjoy." A tiffany lamp hanging over the rectangular wooden table picks up the earth tones in the large print floral wallpaper that is enlivened with burnt orange and gold. An overhead ceiling fan with basket weave panels on the paddles bears five frosted glass globes. Walnut-stained cabinets blend well with copper-colored appliances.

The nautical theme is predominant in the beamed-ceiling den, which contains generations of memorabilia and pictures of the Williams' three children, Wanda Finnie, an attorney, Wendy, recent college graduate and radio personality, and Thomas III, a sophomore at Virginia State University. Mrs. Williams' grandparents' wedding certificate adorns the hearth. Twin sofas face one another before as and pale green larly decorated, with shaded, sculptured carpet picking up the colors in a floral print bedspread. In a corner sits a captain's chair that Williams' father bought for Williams' grandmother when she was 7.

Tommy William's room is a masculine expression of the home's color scheme, with cocoa carpet and a geometric bedspread in brown, beige, and red. The five-piece set of furniture, that belonged to Mrs. Williams' parents, is metal, with an enamel finish that simulates wood grain. The sole exception to the home's color scheme is in Wendy Williams' bedroom, which contains Floridian rattan furniture and bright yellow and green floral drapes and spread. "She's very flamboyant," Mrs.

Williams smiled. And her husband added, "The room really reflects her personality." The furnishings include a rattan fan chair and a Toulouse-Lautrec print the Williams brought from Paris. The full basement has enough room for the Williams' to have a small hideaway office and for the family's large recreation room, which Mrs. Williams calls an exercisepartyrecreation room. Carrier SKSSOKOU: Over 80 Efficient $1,495.00 -m ti lliblit I HIH Nt'lKHr V.m 1,266.00 VI mil sl 1 i -t i i i i iiniiiiiii ii nT-TTnir By USA CELLEX SCMAAD Press Correspondent rci hirley Williams describes her home, in the Wayside section of Ocean Township, as being a "mixture," rather than adhering to any specific decorative style.

Built in 1967, the exterior of the colonial-style home bears thin clap-i boards painted barn red and its interior combines contemporary furnishings with antiques and pieces the Williams picked up on international vacations. Mrs. Williams also added nautical touches in many rooms. "People are afraid to mix and match," Mrs. Williams- said.

"It just takes a little time to match pieces and fabrics." Shirley and Thomas Williams are both educators. Mrs. Williams teaches 3 in the Bradley School, Asbury Park, and her husband is principal of the Monument School, Trenton, and is a published author. The couple moved to Wayside in 1970, bringing with them the furniture from their older Asbury Park home. had a lot of things done I over," Mrs.

Williams said. 1 1 Her husband added, "Many of the things we obtained during our extensive international traveling. We've been to the Orient twice." The area to which they moved, uMCf Af Tttal Dnorl tuae of hot timA nwji ui ivu iuuu, niw uutv uiub called Wayside Village, Mrs. Williams recalled, "because all the streets have Indian names." The section had only five or six streets. Although the area has grown tre-, mendously in 16 years, the Williams' street is still quiet and tree-lined, their approximately home sitting comfortably on an acre of land.

home's color scheme, earth tones throughout, helps to unite the diversity in furniture and theme and the doors and woodwork throughout are stained a dark shade. A slate entryway separates the living room, on the right, and the dining Include Eacn Have Taken For Gift on your nursery, background At Sears, get We provincial sofa is accented with ivory gold raw silk flecked with green. a brick fireplace, which is balanced on the opposite wall by Mrs. Williams' piano. A nubby fabric with a hopsack texture in eye-easy browns and beiges covers the sofas, draperies and piano bench.

Above the fireplace hangs a cuckoo clock in the shape of a Swiss chalet the Williams' purchased in Lusann, Switzerland. The room is lighted by two nautical lamps, each consisting of five glass globes hanging from a ship's wheel The globes are copies of the glass balls that add weight to Japanese fishing nets. A large oil painting by Lee Reynolds, "Sea Scope," hangs above one of the sofas. A large coral-colored conch shell on the hearth is a souvenir of their most recent trip, to St Croix, during which Williams learned to scuba dive. The master bedroom, which contains a private bath and dressing room, is furnished in Italian Provincial style.

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