When Mark Christofi first met with this suburban Boston couple, he faced a situation familiar to designers and, all too often, a source of the kind of conflict that results in the project from hell: the background, tastes, likes and dislikes of his newly married clients were not even vaguely alike. In their interior style preferences, these two were like yin and yang, chocolate and vanilla, or, in their case, the sunshine-infused brilliance of Southern California and the history-steeped shadows of New England. This couple represented, for Christofi, azure waves and fuchsia hibiscus in contrast to weathered wood and winter landscapes.  read more >