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The first lesson Mary Beth Kopacz taught Thursday in the art room at John F. Kennedy Elementary School just after its $25,000 makeover was on interior design.
She pointed out the colors – the greens and orange that were repeated around the room – and asked students to come up with ideas of how to fill a blank space on the wall next to the new, flat screen television.
Kopacz turned the fifth graders’ first glimpse of the room’s transformation into a teaching moment. Later in the day, after a pep rally to celebrate the makeover, parents and students peaked into the room for a look at the big “reveal.”
Husband-and-wife team Bob and Cortney Novogratz of Bravo TV’s “9 By Design” spent three days working on the redesign that Kopacz won this summer as the grand prize in the Bounty Make a Clean Difference contest. The makeover may be featured on a future airing of the show.
Cortney Novogratz said that before the couple’s design team started work, the art room was filled with hand-me-downs and items that held together by duct tape.
“Now she has the best of everything,” Novogratz said. “I can only imagine how that is going to reflect to the kids in how they appreciate art and what they learn by coming here.”
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