A Whole Family Goes to College

When their daughter headed off to school, these parents hired a design pro to ingeniously transform a blah condo in her college town into their pied-à-terre. Result: visits made easy and chic.

- BY NORA KNOEPFLMACHER

THE TERM “pied-à-terre” usually conjures images of an airy Parisian atelier or a sleek studio on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. But Ariel and Raj De envisioned a different sort of escape: a cozy condo in Chapel Hill, N.C., the charming college town