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MIMI READ: You've drenched the foyer and stair halls in an extreme shade of fuchsia. Was the owner nervous about letting you steer a classic Brooklyn brownstone head-on into pink? JONATHAN BERGER: She went for it right away. It's... See more » MIMI READ: You've drenched the foyer and stair halls in an extreme shade of fuchsia. Was the owner nervous about letting you steer a classic Brooklyn brownstone head-on into pink? JONATHAN BERGER: She went for it right away. It's an all-girl household, and she wanted to celebrate that fact. Who is she? Heather Evans, a marketing executive and former model who lives here with her four daughters Zoe is 19, Eva is 14, Lila is 12, and Sofi is 10. All of them are extremely active and energetic, with lots of friends over all the time. The minute you walk in and see the hot pink foyer and those pink leather chairs around the game table in the middle of the parlor floor, you know just who they are. Pink was our main statement, and we used bits of it throughout the house, taming it with browns, pale blues, and creams. Did the girls get involved in the process? Oh, yes. Before they even closed on the property, the girls started putting together a scrapbook filled with pages from recent design publications and anything related to house and home. They all wanted animal prints, pretty antiques, lots of color. On one page, they pasted on a headline that read: "Exuberantly Feminine, Yet Resolutely Chic." That became our motto. It sounds like a sophisticated slumber party. Where had they lived before? A carriage house on the Lower East Side with a bohemian, loftlike living arrangement. Here, they have a much more family-oriented house with a touch of formality but nothing too stuffy. This is an 1890s house with extremely narrow rooms. How did you downplay the bowling alley effect? We corrected the architecture some. The living room was one long double parlor. You could see clear to the back of the house, including the kitchen. To shorten the space and block the view of the kitchen, I closed off the back by putting antiqued mirrored glass inside a doorway, and then hung a real antique on top of it a sunburst mirror from the Paris flea market. It also brings light back there. Then we made it into three separate seating areas to break down the length. The other thing was scaling the furniture correctly. We used a lot of Napoleon III and Victorian, a lot of French and Continental pieces that are small in scale. All the new upholstered pieces were scaled specifically for these spaces. The three seating areas are all different enough to read as separate rooms. Tell me about that sun-washed area in front it looks so distilled. It feels like there isn't much furniture because two of the pieces go together. It's a duchesse brisée a chaise and a chair set. The end of the chaise is concave and the end of the chair is convex, and if you put them together, they fit snugly. Also, there are no window coverings, which makes it cleaner and brighter. This is where Heather likes to drink her coffee in the morning. The rear of the room with the mirrored wall is darker and warmer, like a cocoon, and more formal. It's almost as if they're night and day. That's one of the prettiest ceramic garden seats I've ever seen. Where did you get it? See less »

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