Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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enticing views just past the next bend; walking or driving to and from the main house and carriage house is easy and natural, the in- stinctive thing to do. At the terminus of a curving drive that begins at the street is the homeowners' two-bay garage, located in a lower section of the carriage house. Along the way, a turnaround by the back door provides closer access. The carriage house's main entrance, however, is via a formal driveway on a perpendicular street. Here, Sidford marries the new structural elements with a new glass curtain wall that recedes at a slight angle from the massive 1850 timbers. "This way, it looks as if the front door is always open," the homeowner says. "And we pay 118 homage to the historic original. "I always like to say that these build- ings were built like Old Ironsides," he says, laughing. Each project is a collaboration and evolves," says Sidford. The en- try with the glass wall is an example of that; we designed that at the homeowners' suggestion." The inside features such quirky elements as a light switch fash- ioned from a piano's soundboard and steel staircases with a curving ash handrail above the mundane metal one. The same curve, execut- ed in mahogany for New England winters, crowns the exterior hand- rail. "There are curves everywhere," Sidford says. "The curves on the railings refer to the curves in the sidewalk outside… I think that