Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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34 FALL 2019 vignettes nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ barn the same color as the trim on their house, Benja- min Moore Black Forest Green. A red cedar roof, which would weather to gray, was chosen to complement the roof of the main house. Inside the barn, MacNeille and the couple settled on using natural pine with a smooth finish and a post-and- beam structure. They chose concrete for the floor, with drains all around for washing the horses. On the far left side of the barn, MacNeille placed the horse stalls, each measuring 12-feet-by-12-feet with stone dust floors cov- ered by rubber mats and bedding. Bars were mounted on the stall walls to hold horse blankets, and hooks were inserted for halters. Each stall includes a swing- ing gate to let the animals in and out and a window to bring in sunshine; windows were fitted with screens for the warmer months. In the center portion of the barn, MacNeille placed the wife's photography studio and added lots of win- dows to let in natural light. To the right of her studio, MacNeille created an area to hold farm equipment. In the back of the barn he placed the tack room, a simple space that includes an attached half-bath and is outfit- ted with shelves, closets, a sink and counter, wall hooks and space for riding boots, and a trunk holding sundry items, like horse blankets. MacNeille placed a set of stairs near the wife's pho- tography studio in the center of the barn to provide ac- cess to the second-level loft. "It's a big and open space with heavy, 2x6, tongue-and-groove floor planks and a timber-framed roof above," says MacNeille, refer- The interiors are finished in pine, which gives it a rustic feel.