A local designer helps
a Northville family find
themselves in the past.
Lynne Konstantin I Design Writer
Beth Singer I Photographer
oby Sneider Pollak thrills with a challenge. "That's what I love about what
I do:' says the 40-year veteran designer and owner of Sneider Custom
Interiors in West Bloomfield. "I don't want to create the same look over
and over. I don't specialize in one style. It's an exciting challenge for me to take a
client from one end of the design spectrum to the other"
That's what she got when a longtime client traded in her family's angular
contemporary home — which Pollak had also designed — for an ornate Tudor
Revival-style confection in Northville. "They were as surprised as I was, but some-
thing about it spoke to them:' says Pollak, who made it her mission to juxtapose
the heaviness of the period style with the lightness of functional modern living
and entertaining — and, in the process, create the exact mix of past and present to
please the family living within.
The living room, washed
in warmly toasted
beiges with peeks of
blue and shimmers of
gold, displays a window
of vibrant color with a
painting custom-designed
by Toby Sneider Pollak
at Danielle Peleg Gallery.
An elegant crystal
chandelier floats against
the heavy beamed
ceiling.
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Do you have a home you'd like to share with the community? Contact Lynne Konstantin at lkonstantin@thejewishnews.com .
58 April 10 • 2014