what does "eye-teasing"mean? Like Mr. Lamond, she had to gut the apartment. But her rehab is markedly different from her upstairs neighbor’s. Glamorous and minimal, it has eye-teasing contrasts, like a dark floor and light furniture, and highly reflective surfaces, including silver foil-backed grass cloth wallpaper and a shiny lacquer finish on the kitchen cabinets. “It gets the light bouncing off the walls,” Ms. Horowitz said. “I like the way we negotiate a space when contrasts are involved. You focus more on the contrasts, instead of, ‘Yikes, this is really small!’ ”