Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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93 Skaletsky's design philosophy, which she describes as "less is more." She focuses on showcasing attention- grabbing pieces or elements by placing them on a restrained canvas. "If you walk into a room and everything is a piece, then you don't even know where to look and it just gets muddy," she says. "One thing I've found in the past sev- eral years is when I open magazines, I'm so confused by how much there is going on in a room. More and more and more color and texture. It's too much for the senses, when what we really need in this world is to be calm." Skaletsky's favorite thing about the process of designing her own home was doing so in partnership with her daughter; they were so in sync on the process, hardly a single disagreement arose. And the end product is exactly what she had dreamed of. "Everything about it is spectacular," Danielle says. "It really, really, really doesn't disappoint. It's the house that keeps on giving." For contact information, see Resources on page 130. P H O T O G R A P H S B Y G R E G P R E M R U ( R I G H T ) , B Y E R I C R O T H ( L E F T )