So, one night my husband and I are at a dinner party at Kelly and Jeff’s charming two-storey on the West Side. After one too many glasses of grape, Kelly announces she wants me to design her a ‘lady cave’. A what? Up to the second level we go. She pushes open a door open at the top of the stairs, turns on a light (one naked light bulb attached to a dated ceiling fan), and brandishing her wine glass in one upraised fist cries, “Seeeeee. I need a new walk-in closet.” Indeed I did see, though I could hardly credit what I saw. Talk about a sobering experience. Could it be that Kelly Lawson – charming gadabout, refined fashionista, photographer extraordinaire — actually performed her toilette in this dreary, defunct kitchen, several cubic metres of all cave and no lady? This project highlights the BEFORE & AFTER and the transformation a reno of one old kitchen turned walk-in closet - AKA Lady Cave! Photos: Kelly Lawson