Photos: My Favorite Room | Actor Chris Coy’s carefree space mixes kids, dogs and creativity among among the antiques

The living room, in spite of its sturdy, vintage wood furniture, is carefree, with cascading plants and colorful paintings.

A turntable in the kids’ room.

Actor Chris Coy says this is his favorite painting — something the family painted over a year.

Pencils and pens hang in bins in the kids’ room.

Instead of “just dead space,” with a conventional dining table, the sunny dining alcove features an arts-and-crafts table with benches, and an entire wall brimming with colored pencils, paint brushes and bins of supplies.