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CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: Glorious flowering trees shade the home. A green leather chair occupies one end of the living room. Even the home’s bathrooms benefit from the designer’s layered approach to decorating. In the kitchen, white paint colors were deliberately mismatched to convey a feeling of the room’s layers of history; the lighting fixtures, which can be raised and lowered, came out of an old bakery. FACING PAGE: “I try to think of each room as a person,” the designer says. “I invent a story about them in my head and edit out anything that doesn’t belong. I had a story in my head about who lived here, and it wasn’t us.” 74