Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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34 WINTER 2021 vignettes nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Above, Original artwork can be found thoughout the house. Floor- to-ceiling shelves were added to the study. "Half the house was sinking and falling," says con- tractor Branden Scimone, owner of S&S Construction and Facilities in Marblehead. There were also lots of "points and curves that didn't suit the house" as a result of it being haphazardly added onto again and again. "How did this house not fall down?" Petrovich- Cheney wondered, admitting that she and her husband "probably lied to ourselves about the quantity of the structural issues." Yet it was hard for them not to fall in love with the place, with its rocky, picturesque perch overlooking the ocean and friendly neighborhood that beckoned them away from their previous home in New Jersey. "We wanted a vibrant year-round community," Petrovich-Cheney says. "We loved the sense of belong- ing that Marblehead offers." Once the team shored up the home structurally, they could turn their attention to the home's layout, flow, and aesthetics. They also enclosed the porch and achieved a cleaner roofline by replacing a gable and two dog shed dormers with a single Nantucket dormer, which made a difference inside, too. "We gained so much more space inside by doing so," Aileen Graf, prin- cipal of Graf Architects in Newburyport.