This article was originally published on July 11, 2011.

Laura Rotondo’s home is big on first impressions – the calming blue foyer holds Polaroids of friends from vacations past, paired with a friendly fracas of two dogs and a cat scurrying to greet new guests. Who this woman is and what she likes – a world traveler who favors a clean space with minimal clutter – is evident as soon as one takes a look around. “I really am into spaces where you walk in and you can just kind of get a sense of the person,” Rotondo says of entering her spacious one-room condo near the Waterfront. The divisions of the studio space are differentiated with walls colored in shades of light blue, green, and orange, brought out by captivating artwork and photos taken by Rotondo herself, an amateur photographer. “A lot of my stuff is just from my travels, ” she comments.