Home Revamp
Ben Tremper
As elegant as the dining room of this South Capitol–area home looks now, five years ago it was completely funkadelic: bright purple and bright green walls, with a staircase right in the middle that led to the basement. Oy. The new owners wisely brought in Architectural Alliance’s Eric Enfield and interior designer Emily Henry. Practically everything went, save the Prairie-style windows. “When I’m working with a smaller space like this,” explains Henry, “my motto is: Less stuff and a bigger scale.” She mounted two chandeliers onto the ceiling, picked up the chest and lamps from David Naylor’s Visions Design Group showroom here in town, and found the Frank Lloyd Wright–like chairs at Los Angeles’s Mimi London. It all makes for a fresh, eclectic feel. “When projects turn out well, like this one did,” says Henry, “it’s not because of me, it’s because of the client."
