Amy’s approach to designing her own home: She has a fastidious eye with her own space’s design. It’s an instinct that, she says, never turns off. “I can be looking around while reading to my son and letting ideas marinate,” Cuker says. “[When designing my home], I treat us like clients, in that we have a set of goals we’re trying to accomplish and an aesthetic process — I start the floor-planning process and research much in the way I would a client.” But, she says of designing her particular home, she was fortunate to have a skeleton to work with that left her with a childlike eagerness. “Inheriting great architecture,” she says of her 1929-built home, “is a gift.”