Mrs. Galland, 28, is an interior designer with Kitty Hawks, a residential design firm in New York.
If that prospect sounds threatening, Mr. Gachot, senior designer for Period, a residential design firm, points out that it can be easier to manage visual cacophony than to get swatches to match.
The trend is catching on in residential design as well.
"It's such a whimsical residential design," Mr. Dunnam said.
She opened her namesake firm in 1980, concentrating on retail and residential design.
In fact, it is a small firm, located in SoHo and specializing in residential design.
ROBINSON RESIDENTIAL DESIGN (www.robinsonplans.com; 877-352-6617), a companyn coffers, offers 14 styles of bungalows.
While new to the United States, large-scale green residential design is somewhat more common abroad.
Such buildings still represent the apogee of New York residential design.
But the family's narrow, dimly lit tube house, a common residential design in Vietnam, was uncomfortable.
His mother is an architect with a private residential design practice in Cambridge.
