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Trading Places Former Trading Spaces designer Laura Day expresses her fresh style and effervescent personality in her latest Manhattan townhouse a challenge is no unfamiliar task for interior-savvy Laura Day. As a designer on TLC’s Trading Spaces, she turned rooms from one look to the next on extremely tight budgets and even tighter timelines. Initially despising her soon-to-be husband’s newly purchased apartment, she dusted off her decor expertise and transformed the space into a home she still misses. When Day and her husband, Frank, decided to move, they faced a new type of design challenge, one that stood about three feet high and came accompanied by an exponential curiosity. “Designing with kids in mind can really be hard!” says Day, mother to a vivacious two-year-old daughter, Olivia, whom Day laughingly calls a “ham.” “You learn that your design has to be a little loose; you have to be able to move and live.” A walk through Day’s Upper East Side townhouse clearly proves she mastered the challenge: not only did she manage to keep the home kid-friendly, but she did so without ever sacrificing the design. Structured against the modern bones of a newly april • may 2010 Written by Shawn Gauthier Photography by Patrick Cline Art Direction by Michelle Adams 95 Lonny april • may 2010 Lonny 96