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The tree topper and mirror are from Marmalade, with baskets from Blanche & Mimi in Portland, Maine, and the pendant acquired on a trip to Morocco.
Credit: Joe Keller When Leigh Standley, the creative force behind stationery company Curly Girl Design (curlygirldesign.com), and her husband, Rob DiBernardo, bought their Belmont condo at the end of 2009, it had just been renovated by real-estate agents planning to flip it quickly. Standley knew that the space–almost 2,000 square feet on the top two floors of a 1910 Victorian–had great potential, but the aesthetic was all wrong. “It was ugly,” Standley says. It also featured many poorly planned spaces, awkward details–and not nearly enough storage. So Standley and her husband set about making it their own. Changing the dark and dated kitchen, which had been renovated cheaply, was paramount. It all had to go. But in the interest of environmental responsibility, Standley didn’t want to send brand-new materials to a landfill–so she found a home for each appliance, countertop, and fixture. Then she and her husband used ecofriendly and reclaimed materials to create a clean, bright, timeless kitchen with plenty of white and warm wood. They also created a small in-office kitchen, which, Standley says, “has become the hub of our home.”