A misty/foggy vision of a tropical rain forest graces the curved wall below the grand staircase. By the time the Show House opens, the forest will have taken over the large foyer — and the red staircase runner will have been replaced with something lighter.

Aleksandr Golubchik’s vision is to create a foggy rain forest to bring in more air for such a large space. Trained as an oil-on-canvas artist, Golubchik’s mural uses 44 colors, plus other tones mixed from those colors, to transport the viewer to the jungle. His shading is subtle and varies so you see different elements depending on where you’re standing in the room, or how the light hits the walls. He’ll paint the whole room, floor to ceiling, in similar fashion. And although he sketched a storyboard, he paints freehand, doing no preparatory sketches on the wall.