T WAS THE HOUSE IN TOWN THAT no one seemed to want. Not because it lacked curb appeal or was in the wrong neighborhood, but simply because it was actually hard to see, inside and out. “Everything was brown, brown, brown,” says interior designer Richard Hallberg, in speaking about the rooms of the 4-year-old spec dwelling in Montecito’s Golden Quadrangle prior to his transformation of the house for a couple interested in living there. “The rooms, the front entry area, all were very dark, with dark ceiling beams,
