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When Ana’s design team at Fala Atelier first proposed blocky kitchen cabinets with dramatic stripes, Ana hesitated. “I thought it would be too much,” she says. “But it’s not. It is incredible, and it is very elegant.” Fala’s Filipe Magalhães says the plays of scale and direction in the house’s patterns make the modest spaces feel grander and create a visual rhythm.

For Ana, it was important that guests could gather throughout the open ground floor. Her kitchen and living room flow into each other. Everyone can relax on the mustard Togo sofa from Ligne Roset in the living room or pull up a Hiroshima chair at the custom Tomaz Viana table by the kitchen.

On the home's second floor, a guest bedroom features a Foscarini lamp and bed and nightstands by Pianca.

A George Nakashima chair sits in the corner office off the stair landing.

"A matching bench extends into the open shower where accordion corner windows can open entirely,

This circle is used for their everyday schedule and notes.

The circle is painted with chalkboard paint. “We pin stuff up there for the holidays, like Chinese New Year, because you have to get up on a chair [to reach it] and you can’t do that everyday,” says Ren.

The windowed stairwell glows at night.

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In the living room, two shades of gray paint from Sherwin-Williams complement the upholstered furnishings from Knoll.

A banquette salvaged from a diner was added to the corner. Eric made the table and April sourced the poofs from a flea market.

Eric built a custom bookshelf for one side of the room, using the salvaged kitchen cabinets for the base and adding an arched detail that extends across the ceiling.

A view of the open plan living space inspired by Jens RIsoms Danish childhood. Risom Library chairs from the early 1960s surround the dining table.