Lighting

North light is steady, cool and unflattering to about half the paint colors ever sold. Here is how to choose for it instead of fighting it.

Almost every disappointing paint job is an undertone problem, and almost all of it is preventable with three large samples and a week of patience.

The clients asked for an open plan. We took down exactly one wall, and the house they got is bigger than the one they asked for.

Fewer fixtures, placed lower, switched separately. The most useful shift in residential lighting in a decade is a subtraction rather than an addition.