ASPIREDESIGNAND H O M E . C O M 95 To make their hypothetical clients feel comfortably at home in such a potentially cavernous structure, Harrison continues, “The materials and furnishings had to make it feel warm and cozy.” That meant miles of white- oak plank flooring, more wood on the slat ceilings of the kitchen, breakfast area and family room, and still more outfitting the exquisitely crafted millwork for which Artisan is known. There were also areas that incorporated thin 1950s-style gray interior brick. “There are a lot of beautiful Craftsman- style homes in the area,” observes Harrison, who settled on an ideologically complementary modern genre to relate it to the neighborhood. “We wanted it to be very clean, almost Scandinavian.” Tapping Boxwood Home Staging to order the furniture, Harrison then layered in texture to ramp up the sense of enveloping tactility. All rugs, for instance, are either vintage or dyed vintage, many from Passerine Home. Unglazed ceramic lamps bring in raw clay elements. Hide accents – the rug in the office, a bench in the primary suite – stay within the neutral palette but heighten the sensory experience still more. Even paint finishes were textured (the nightstands in the primary) or introduced subtle notes of color (the green butler’s pantry). Curved furniture silhouettes softened the orthogonality of the architecture as well. And guess what? The house seemed to conjure up its own imagined client. Jeffrey Skoll, the Montreal-born billionaire who was eBay’s first president and now is a philanthropist and part-owner of the professional ice hockey team the Washington Capitals, “didn’t change a thing,” says Harrison. “He bought it fully furnished. The goal was to make it as easy as possible for someone to move in.”