The staircase is my favorite thing in the house because it brings the light through. It's very sculptural.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

They wanted a contemporary kitchen. She wanted a lot of white. She likes everything to be very clean, and with white she feels she can get everything to be as clean as possible.

It's a very calm room. We used a lot of texture. We made a very contemporary quilt bedspread. For typical New Yorkers who have tons of newspapers and magazines and telephones and glasses... everything in this house is built like a ship. There's storage behind everything.

We chose pretty much all the furniture. There are a few pieces of furniture that we inherited, but mostly it's all new.

We have a surround-sound television system and children's games, and it's kind of wide open so children can play in the family room and move right out to the outside.