"It's gorgeous, natural-looking and combines all the beauty of wood with the durability of tile," says Maxey. The new flooring throughout is a blended-grey porcelain tile that looks like wood planks. "It's powered by a positive and negative conduit." "This lighting has no wires," notes Maxey. "It's not glossy and it's not chalky - just very smooth and clean."Īdding to the gallery theme is the satin nickel track lighting with lamps aimed to highlight pieces of art. "So we made the space a palette for that."Įnter the white, gallery-grade paint she chose for the walls: "It's halfway between satin and flat," explains Maxey. "She wanted clean lines and muted colors, with the main focus being her artwork," says Maxey.
Downsizing to 1,600 feet and wanting to go more contemporary, she wanted the display - and the look - more streamlined. An avid diver who has traveled around the world to pursue her passion, she has amassed a large collection of art from her travels. After being widowed three years ago, she decided it was time to let go of the traditionally styled estate that wasn't really her style anyway. The client, a child psychiatrist in her 60s, recently moved to Houston from northeast Texas to be with friends. But a lot of Inner City Loopers live in these kinds of buildings, so we're used to handling that kind of thing." to 2 p.m., and if we had to do something extra loud, like sawing or drilling, we had to schedule it with the management and they had to communicate that to the condo owners.
"Monday through Friday, we could only be noisy from 10 a.m. The makeover took six months to complete, primarily because of strict condo association rules that only gave the Houston interior designers very limited access to the elevator - through which all materials and team members had to go. We ended up taking them down to the studs." "When we took them off the walls, the walls came apart.
"The place was covered with glued-down, floor-to-ceiling mirrors," says Lisha Maxey, senior designer for Homescapes of Houston and principal at LGH Design Services in Houston. Houston Interior Designer Lisha Maxey took this Museum District condo from the dated, mirrored walls of the 1980s to Mid Century Modern with a gallery look featuring the client's art collection.
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