When Lisa Lucas studied education, she pictured herself teaching grade-schoolers to sketch, paint and sculpt. But a change of heart redirected her toward instructing math, which was a natural fit for her spatial reasoning skills and focus on pattern. When she filled whiteboards with formulas and geometry, the numbers came alive like art on a canvas.
Not surprisingly, Lisa's approach to decorating is akin to a mathematical equation that requires study, precision and finesse. Practice makes perfect in the house she and her husband, Mark, bought in 2010 in Bakersfield, Vermont. The New England setting, reminiscent of a Currier & Ives lithograph, is optimal for raising their sons, Riley and Robbie. However, the newer construction lacked character-something the couple remedied themselves. They swapped ho-hum fixtures for milk-glass sconces and iron
