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

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

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 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.

I think pretty much everybody I've spoken to is for it, if it's scaled down and done safely.