How to Work With a Strong Architectural Feature That You Can't Change

Celeste and Blaque are roommates in an East Nashville rental house built in the 1930s. It has plenty of room for the two women's creative endeavors -- Celeste is a painter and Blaque makes jewelry. It also has quite a strong architecture feature front and center in their living room: a bold, white brick and black marble fireplace and mantel. Though it's an architectural element unique to this house, the way Celeste and Black designed with it, and not against it, is worthy of a closer look. This ...