"In this case, the challenge was to marry a traditional Boston feeling with an L.A. sense of style. We juxtaposed them to create a new style."
The house, built in the 1940s, started as a modestly scaled suburban Colonial. Over the years, a number of additions have expanded the space to about twice its original size, but the symmetrical simplicity of the structure has not changed. However, when they started, the house was, in the homeowners' words, "an empty white shell."
"The rooms have nice proportions and the flow in the house is good," says Christofi. "But there really was no color and there weren't any softening details. Each room was essentially a plain white box."
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