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Modern - yes. Warm - definitely not. Every wall and much of the furniture is white. White is the coldest color there is.
I do like the brick and the wood floors.

Aluminum does most definitely conduct electricity. By weight, aluminum is a better conductor than copper. Nearly all high-voltage overhead power lines use aluminum cables.
You can however do electrical on an aluminum ladder if you know what you are doing. If you don't know what you are doing, you shouldn't be doing electrical at all from any type of ladder or even the ground.
The real risk of aluminum ladders is when you are moving them. You might be doing gutter work or anything else and if you don't pay attention when moving the ladder upright, you can come into contact with an overhead power line. The aluminum will conduct that power to you, whereas a wooden or fiberglass ladder probably wouldn't (unless it happened to be wet).

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"I've been trying to come up with a pun on this door-to-bookcase project"

You should just shelve that idea.