Two years ago, when Linda Bond had the chance to buy a house she had admired for a long time, she jumped at it. But the house had one flaw: a dark, outdated interior. The look she imagined for the five-bedroom French manor home in Chevy Chase, Md., was light, airy and elegant. Bond, who works as a consultant for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is the wife of Christopher “Kit” Bond, a former Missouri governor and U.S.