“The apartment was a little bit of a hodge-podge,” expresses the owner of a second-floor, 2,450-square-foot Tribeca loft she and her husband had called home for 15 years. “We’d lived there with three little kids and a dog, and there were a lot of toy

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icture a five-story, single-family house high in the Russian Hill neighborhood of the City by the Bay. Then imagine you live there and have a taste for a striking black-and-white palette, a taste you honed when living among the clean lines of Hong Ko