Longtime readers of this column no doubt are familiar with my penchant for juxtaposing the old and new and even sometimes mixing styles. However, in doing that, the basic tenets of design must always ...

In the early 2000s, I moved into a true one-room loft with my now-husband. The building had been a factory in a previous life, and we fell in love with the show-stopping interior — the well-worn wood ...