To do that, he brought in green, the wife’s favorite color, letting its rich tones play off the wood inside and the woods outside. The color, for example, shows up to great effect in her bathroom, where the wall tiles and marble surrounding the soaking tub are sage, and in the master bedroom, where it forms a backdrop for an extraordinary 19th-century American Aesthetic Movement ebonized cabinet. Another green, the color of leafy branches, grows in the panoramic oil mural—replete with old-fashioned shady trees and images of landmarks from the town that are significant to the couple—that climbs the central stairway.  read more >