High Impact

For a family keen on modernizing their stately D.C. home, one designer zeroed in on unifying moments.

- Kelly Allen

LIBRARY

“I wanted to create a room that was fully filled with color,” Tina Ramchandani says. Pendant: Lee Broom. Sofa: B&B Italia. Table: Arteriors. Chairs: Noir Trading. Rug: Art + Loom. Draperies: custom, in Maharam fabric.

IT’S MONOCHROMATIC, mostly, and that was very intentional,” Tina Ramchandani says of the color scheme throughout her client’s home in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood. The young family tapped the designer to gut renovate their six-bedroom, seven-bathroom Colonial-style house built in 1980, requesting it be drenched in bright whites to complement their contemporary style. Ramchandani layered similar shades and textures throughout to add depth, ensuring the vision didn’t fall flat.

“The kids’ rooms are filled with many different colors, but every other area features the same tone,” she says. “If there’s an accent, it’s the gray in the [veining] on the kitchen countertops or the [veining] in the fireplace, just to elevate the whites.”

She compares the living room, outfitted in a spectrum of white, to a chameleon in that the curved, salon-style seating accommodates all modes of entertaining. A faux silver foil wallcovering by Phillip Jeffries envelops the dining room, while the library is covered in Benjamin Moore’s Hudson Bay paint in a high-gloss lacquer finish for a moody contrast. In the rainbow playroom, imaginative minds run free under a wavy Rebel Walls mural.