Dare Bare to

When the editor at ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME rang up to suggest photographing our home in black and white, my partner and Madcap co-founder, John Loecke, and I were intrigued. Our firm, Madcap Cottage, has carved out a niche in the prints-and-patterns space, so I thought, “what fun it would be to see how the various, exuberantly hued and patterned rooms would look stripped bare!”

But before you ogle the goods, let’s consider the backstory and how our home came