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87 it. And so we just let him go. He's really very talented." With the goal being to create a comfortable home in which the Nelsons could also entertain family and friends, they got started. Jones's mantra is "If you design a space, you might as well make it interesting and exciting." So at the front of the house, which has a view across the street toward the river, they built a full-width addition to the kitchen. This opens up to the dining area and great room, with a fireplace at the back, and a new screened porch overlooks a bluestone patio and faces a marsh. On the second floor, there are two bedrooms and a bath, with a bridge that's open to the entry below and the cupola above. The bridge leads to an expansive master suite that the Nelsons absolutely adore. The exterior has board-and-batten siding above a stone veneer, a standing seam roof, and a new landscape by Mike Hathaway of Newbury. Built by James Bourque of Bourque Construction in Newburyport, the updates to the house were finished at the end of 2018. "We all want to feel proud of our home, but it's more than an asset," says Jones about the components he brought to this design. "It's about style, composition, and scale." The house certainly functions and flows beautiful- There's drama in the master bathroom thanks to the oversize chandelier over the tub, which is on a wall with windows overlooking the marsh.