While other people were looking at enormous portraits in Versailles I was exclaiming over door locks, finials, and drawer pulls.  I have always been a details person.  In the petit appartement de la reine there is a drawer pull in the shape of a double-headed eagle.  For me the little things matter and my eyes often fall upon them.  I found this sweet, quirky cat on a drawer in my client’s kitchen the other day and was instantly charmed.  Instead of a regular handle here was this whimsical piece of hardware that made me grin every time I saw it.  There are of course big picture people and we certainly need them as well.  Just look at Le Notre, the landscape architect of Versailles.  He had a grand vision people still visit in awe by the thousands everyday.  My eyes, though, cannot help but take note of the fountains and statuary — the turn of a muscle, the fold of a gown, or strands of hair carved painstakingly out of marble.  I suppose the downside to noticing details is I always straighten other people’s pictures, and price tags — even on cleaning supplies under the sink — make me crazy.  Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey said, “I learned no detail was too small.  It was all about the details.”  I happen to agree.  Not a lot of people see our little master bathroom,  but if they do they immediately notice the giant silhouette of a wolf pausing mid-walk with the sun behind him on our shower curtain.  I remember someone once called it a “statement curtain”.  That may be politesse for nuts.  Only one person that I can recall has ever gotten past it long enough to notice the hooks, which are also wolves.  I may be the only lunatic to have wolf shower curtain hooks but they make me happy; it’s all in the details.