Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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32 FALL 2019 W HEN A NORTH SHORE COUPLE REACHED out to Rob MacNeille, design principal and president of Carpenter & MacNeille—a full- service, residential and design construction company with offices in Essex and Wellesley—in the spring of 2015, they explained that they wanted him to build a separate structure from their main home to accommo- date the wife's passion for wildlife photography and her and her daughter's love of horseback riding. "Their goal was to create a proper horse barn with four stalls for the horses, space for farm equipment, a photog- raphy studio, space for two cars, and a small guest apart- ment all in one structure," says MacNeille, whose firm has won numerous awards for its outstanding work. The only problem? The local bylaws said the couple's secondary apartment had to be in a separate structure, yet occupy- ing an existing footprint on the property. Undaunted, MacNeille proposed tearing down the couple's dilapidated two-car garage near the horse paddock and building a new garage in its place with a studio apartment on the second level. MacNeille then suggested building a separate traditional horse barn that incorporated the remaining elements on the wish list. The couple could not have been more delighted. After receiving the green light to go forward with vignettes nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ The board-and- batten siding gives a vertical appearance to the structure. the project in late 2016, MacNeille began looking at other horse barns in the area to inform his design. "The couple wanted it to read as a barn and not be overly formal," says MacNeille, explaining that the long side of the structure faces the house and has a door in the middle. "We used board-and-batten sliding and gave it a vertical appearance that complements the half-Tudor- style design of the main house." After a lengthy study on color, the couple decided to paint the rough pine