Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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92 New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, Jenn O'Brien worked for years with apparel and marketing companies on projects around the world. But, she says, "Despite my background in fashion, I was always more excited by home design, subscribing to Domino and House Beautiful instead of Vogue and Elle." Now she's focusing her career on home design. And the change is a good one. "It just feels so natural to me," she says. "Once I figured that out, I haven't been happier. I found myself, and it just feeds my soul completely." Jenn began interior design in earnest after she fin- ished an extensive renovation last year on her Topsfield house, a 1793 Greek Revival where she lives with her husband, Darin O'Brien, their 9-year-old daughter, Ruby Mae, and a Great Dane named Prince. "We are only the third owners of this house," says Jenn, explaining that one family owned the property up until the 1950s, when two brothers bought it. (One of the brothers had H A V I N G G R A D U A T E D F R O M