Real LI

Maybe everyone is ready for a change and not just in politices. Change, modernizing, freshening up -- that's the idea this time around for the 36th annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which recently released its list of decorators.

Seven of the 21 spaces went to young first-time participants in the venerable showcase. No Long Island designers in the bunch, though most do work here.

And instead of the usual townhouse mansion, the decorators get to inject glamor into four apartments on the 10th floor -- and the penthouses -- of the 1950s white brick Manhattan House apartment building at 200 East 66th St. which, not surprisingly, is going condo. Expect to see more contemporary design, fewer swags.

When the show house doors open April 24 through Memorial Day (and possibly longer), you can check out the work of: Andrew Edward Kepler Design & Interiors, Bilotta Kitchens of New York with Chef Daniel Boulud (yep, that's right, the celebrity chef isn't just lending his name and expertize to cookware but to an entire kitchen which may spawn a marketable product line), Bograd Kids, Inc, Charlotte Moss Interior Design, Ellen Ward Scarborough Ltd. with Pariscope Design, Inc., Geoffrey Bradfield, Inc., Ian Halliday, David Katon and Tania Balafoutis for BKH New York, Inc., Jeff Lincoln Interiors, Kondylis Design, Larry Laslo Designs, Michael McKinnon, Inc., Nancy Ruddy for CETRARUDDY, Philip Gorrivan Design. Richard L. Ridge & Roderick R. Denault Interior Design, S. Russell Groves Interior Design, Sara Bengur Interiors. Sara Story Design, Stephen Miller Siegel Architects, P.C., TRUCK Product Architecture for Nurseryworks, White Webb, LLC and William McIntosh Design.

For more of this season's show house information, go here.

-- CAROL POLSKY