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Olsen also wanted to regularize the main floor's off-kilter layout - knocking together a couple of small spaces to create a commodious living-dining room and reworking the cramped staircase into an elegant Chinese Chippendale - style ascent. Yellow also accents the entrance hall floor, which go-to decorative painter Chris Pearson crisscrossed with wide yellow and brown bands, and embellished with dark vermicelli squiggles that Olsen once spotted on some "kooky Italian tiles." Just over six years ago, Manhattan interior decorator Nick Olsen recalls, "I was very busy with work and feeling a bit bedraggled - why couldn't I do something just for me?". [Extracted from the article]