before David Quarles redesigned his 1950s ranch, he worked long hours in corporate marketing—and it showed in his mostly gray house. “One day I was in the kitchen cooking, I had music playing, and the aromas were going, but I couldn’t feel it,” he says. “The house was sad.” He realized he needed a big life change. So he quit his job in 2018, honed his interior design skills as a stylist at a local store, and now runs his own firm, Studio 417. When he set out to redo his home, he says, he was still finding himself as a designer. But he knew he wanted to infuse the 1,144-square-foot space with color, texture, and life. He layered in lots of dramatic patterns and incorporated midcentury modern details throughout,…
