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36 SPRING 2020 vignettes nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ The bright and open kitchen, dining room, and living room flow together and open to the pool through glass walls. wanted it to be calm, ordered, and serene. That sense was achieved by the new layout," he adds. Today the first floor of the three-story house is bright and open, with a gentle segue from living room to dining room and kitchen, and flowing naturally toward the pool in back. MacNeille had a problem with the original pool, with its tired construction and a jar- ring orientation. "It was not serene," he says. The new pool, 22 V feet by 50 feet, extends the length of the back of the house, for pleasingly close integration. "That was their goal, to entertain in a big unified living space that was closely related to the outdoors and pool," MacNeille says. The house—or "cottage" in the parlance of the Shingle style—was one of the first houses on this North Shore beach. The size of the main house, 7,870 square feet, didn't change during the renovation, but virtually all of the interior spaces were refreshed or reimagined. In fact, very little changed in the interior beyond the first-floor public spaces. "It went back to its roots," MacNeille says. The architecture also maintains the home's original fieldstone foundation, many original walls, windows, decorative millwork and shingling on the gable ends. The exterior is a true-to-style artful wrap of gray shingles and white trim.