"I just want to hang out with my girlfriend and my mom, " he pleaded.

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"I wanted their friends to want to hang out at our house, " says Ms. Kearney, an interior decorator who enlisted Marnie Van der Burgt of California Closets to help design her daughter's room.

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"I'm very happy if they want to hang out, " the designer says.

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