A native New Yorker, Ms. Williams says she grew up around art and design all her life. She is the daughter of the architect Tod Williams, who has a practice with his wife, Billie Tsien, and studied architecture and landscape design. ‘All of those decades of experience and exposure definitely came to play and it became really fun,’ she says of the renovating. In the kitchen, she added open oak shelves to show off nicer kitchen pieces, and marble countertops. ‘The dreary everyday stuff is hidd...