Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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36 SPRING 2019 kitchens nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ as a birthday gift from her husband. A visitor's eye is drawn to the blue-sky–like ceiling, but one shouldn't overlook the floor of matte-finished oak with larger than usual parquet boxes. "We wanted something that looked in keeping with the [original] parquet, but a little more modern," says the wife. A new mudroom off the back of the kitchen, which incorporates a small powder room, is one of the wife's favorite architectural flourishes, and the family also got a fabulous deck right off the kitchen. "We knew we wanted a deck, but it wasn't apparent until we went through multiple iterations that it was something we could achieve as part of this project," says the wife. "We thought we might do it later, but as the plan evolved, we saw how cleanly it fit into the work we were doing in the kitchen, and we were thrilled to get it done." Last spring, the couple enthusiastically agreed to host a friend's birthday party, but got a little nervous when they heard 150 guests would be invited. Looking back, they smile at how unfounded their fears were. The homeowners note, "It's surprising how many people we can have here comfortably." One of the guests asked if, now that she'd lived in the house a while, there was anything she wished were different. "I couldn't think of a single thing," she says. "Julie and David did a wonderful job." For Resources, see page 106. A built-in desk and window seats with storage in the kitchen (top) and new mudroom (middle) are a practical use of the space around windows that had to be kept for historical integrity. Bottom: The mudroom leads to the back portion of the new wraparound deck.