4. 5. 3. Today, she approaches her interiors with the same kind of storytelling she gleaned from her previous experiences in Hollywood. With a penchant for color and pattern, Schumacher's interiors evoke a sense of drama that sets the scene for the owners' lives to play out before them. " I think it's important to have things on display that you love-conversation starters that say this is your house and this is the story of how you found it, " she says. Schumacher wants to know how her clients will use the home, of course-whether they have kids or pets or anything they want to incorporate from their previous home-and that informs her choices in materials. It sounds almost like a script and the in-between stage directions. " You fi nd that out, " she says, " and then weave their story into their own home. " i+D - November/December 2021 43