SIX and the CITY

FOR A FAMILY WITH FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN, AN UPPER EAST SIDE TOWNHOUSE STIRS TO LIFE WITH GLOSSY COLOR, ELECTRIFYING ART, AND PLENTY OF URBAN ENERGY.

- CELIA BARBOUR

A GARDEN ISN'T THE ONLY PART OF A PROPERTY that can burst into bloom. Sometimes a house emerges out of dormancy with a flourishing to rival that of any late-spring rose garden. Such is the case with a recent Upper East Side project by rising star Lucy Doswell for clients Maegan and Owen Boger. Elements of the decor, including some of the Bogers' extensive art collection, lay in literal darkness-stored away for more than a decade before coming to life on the townhouse's generous walls. "We found homes for pieces that had been waiting all those years," says Doswell. Other paintings and furnishings were squeezed into the confines of the Bogers' apartment, waiting to be transplanted to a larger space. Meanwhile the family was growing like, well, weeds; the Bogers now have four children under the age of 11.