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"In the late 1980s, landscape designer Deborah Nevins created a garden in Southampton, New York, that still inspires awe in all who see it, with soaring copper-beech hedges framing roses and wildflowers.  The house on the property, however, was lackluster and awkward. The interior of the 1890s redbrick structure had devolved over time into a labyrinth of narrow halls and cramped rooms. When it went on the market several years ago, potential buyers were daunted. &amp;quot;People were intrigued by the land and the location,&amp;quot; says interior designer Steven Gambrel. &amp;quot;But they couldn&amp;#039;t see past the house.&amp;quot;  The eventual owner, a Manhattan financier, wasn&amp;#039;t for a moment intimidated. One of the first calls he made was to Gambrel, whom he had hired to redo four previous properties, including his Manhattan townhouse. As Gambrel says, &amp;quot;This client is not afraid of good design.&amp;quot;   The formerly dark foyer has been transformed into a dramatic entry with walls covered in wood blocks carved and painted to resemble stonework \u00E0 la Mount Vernon. The space is almost Escher-like in its stark black-and-white pattern and repetitive geometry. It&amp;#039;s a graphic effect echoed in the kitchen, where the floor features gray, black, and white concrete squares, and the walls are lined in ebony ceramic tile. &amp;quot;I do love black,&amp;quot; says Gambrel, who used the color on window frames and walls as well the living room&amp;#039;s expansive plank ceiling. &amp;quot;Rather than making a space feel smaller, as you might expect,&amp;quot; Gambrel says, &amp;quot;it helps to define its outer edges, encouraging visual scale.&amp;quot;   Attention-grabbing hues are a leitmotif. Pine-green turns up on everything from carpets to upholstery to a malachite mantel. The shade reaches its pinnacle in the living room, where a sofa and a round tufted ottoman are covered in emerald fabric.  Red is also used to great effect, from a hall hung with black-and-white photos in matching scarlet frames and a crimson-carpeted cloakroom to an old-fashioned lacquered swinging door that opens to the kitchen from the jet-black butler&amp;#039;s pantry.   Upstairs, the master suite is reached via a dressing room outfitted sumptuously with a goatskin rug, vintage Maison Charles lanterns, and floor-to-ceiling cabinets painted glossy white with red trim. The rest of the suite is no less luxe, with elements inspired by world travels: an ebonized headboard whose shape is a nod to the architecture of Flanders, a 19th-century Chinese console, and bathroom vanities modeled on those in Claridge&amp;#039;s, the owner&amp;#039;s favorite London hotel.   Nevins&amp;#039;s lush formal garden\u2014recently reconceived and replanted by Hamptons-based landscape architect Perry Guillot\u2014still provides a breathtaking experience. But the house at its heart now more than holds its own.  Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;A Hamptons Home Reborn&amp;quot;. Click here to see the resources. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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