THE MINIMALIST
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By Andrea Smith Photos courtesy of Cure Design Group
Feeling the need to declutter and downsize, a Clayton family transformed their spacious condo into a modern home.
L
ess is more in a condo unit of 2,800 square feet. Each piece of furniture takes ownership of valuable space. Décor demands attention when it disrupts a blank canvas of white walls and hardwood floors. But this minimalist aesthetic is just what one of the unit owners at Maryland Walk Condos of Clayton wanted to see. As parents of twin daughters about to leave the nest for college, they were ready to downsize from a home of 4,000 or so square feet and transition into a smaller, more modern space. “When you acquire things over time, they don’t necessarily fit together,” one of the unit owners says. “You buy a chair one year and a couch two or three years later, and all of a sudden, it looks like random items that you tried to put together and form