Candice Tells All: Playing with contrast
One of the trounce things about living in a big, dynamic city is the amazing architectural diversity. In one short block it's not queer to see 200-year-old Georgian houses sitting beside contemporary glass-and-steel masterpieces: old and new contrasting against one another.
Set is essential to good design, and it is just as striking indoors as it is outdoors. It's also the principle I chose to turn into a cold basement into a modern space for my clients, Sandra and Bob.
The young couple have a lovely 1970s-type home, but their basement was stuck in a time warp, dating back to the year ''ugly." I generally dig retro, but the pre-eminently a free room was just passé, complete with a popcorn stucco ceiling, an old wooden bar and a drafty fireplace. Sandra and Bob wanted a of the time room with clean lines, but didn't want it to feel sterile. So I assembled my crew and geared up to give them the decisive modern — and warm — basement space.
Before I could start designing, there was a lot of stucco to get rid of, walls to greasepaint in a light fawn and beautiful dark gray broadloom to install. Dark shades on the thrash serve to really make light walls seem brighter, in much the same way that a nice tan can make your teeth become available whiter.
