chron.com — by the time they found architecture firm Wittenberg Oberholzer, they were able to specify their desires with an unusual level of precision: not just "beautiful" and "not stuffy," but also "25 feet of counter space" and "no interior columns." Reid picked the colors, Brad explains: the orange of the enormous slanting columns outside, the spring green of the living room wall, the pinks and teals and oranges that line the foot-deep little "window wells." Before they moved into the house, the couple owned one big painting, "Working Vice 1998," a somber painting about Cuba that involves a vice, a map and tea staining.