Modern House

In the kitchen, the cooktop had to be relocated, first because cooking-oil splatters nearly ruined the ebony-wood counter ("I cried and cried," Tina says), and second because the cooktop was so near the 140-gallon saltwater fish tanks that it practically cooked most of the much-loved pets. "One fish is a trouper," Tina says of a black-and-white-spotted clown triggerfish. "He lived through it all."