Oregon Home | 39 LIKE MANY young designers, Erin Lima has a lot of experience delivering on projects for clients that take a reserved use of color—heavy on neutrals with a single, more muted color here or there. But when she and her husband, Daniel, decided to move to an early 2000s home in Tualatin for her daughter Anita’s schooling, she had a new opportunity to experiment with bolder hues. “The house was a secondary thing for us,” says Lima, principal designer at Winsome Home. “It was a lot for us to move to the suburbs, but having such a blank slate has required a nice level of creativity.” The 2002 house she shares with family is classic for the era—designed with larger spaces in mind and more open layouts, and with elements now considered dated, like bullnose corners and orange-peel walls, strange arches, Tuscan fixtures, and can lights. “The whole thing is kind of Mar-a-Lago meets Tudor style,” Lima says. “But I actually love this style of homes and think they get a really bad rap.” What Lima likes to think of as “Millennial Design” factors into her home in a big way. Many of her clients are Millennials who grew up in these early-2000s spaces and need help with grappling with updating some of the more difficult design vestiges of the era. These homes don’t need a lot of walls moved or taken down, and the structural challenges are few, she says. The layouts are good, and they tend to serve larger families that need more space. But that openness requires out-ofthe-box thinking and a holistic approach. “It’s usually: I’ve got this weird column,” Lima says. “With these homes, I can spend more of my time bringing a vibe to the spaces.” The goal is often to transform run-of-the-mill spaces into rooms touched with personality.
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