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KALEIDOSCOPE IN MOTION

Kelly Wearstler first set eyes on this house in the West Hollywood district of Los Angeles, she was anything but impressed. “It didn’t have anything exciting,” she recalls. “I remember walking in and thinking, ‘Oh my God! I’m really going to have to roll up my sleeves here’.” Previously, the house had a Spanish architectural vernacular, and an interior dominated by brown ceiling beams and all-white walls. Kelly’s goal was to give it both a “voice” and a personality. She certainly did that by infusing it

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