Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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High Pride by Regina Cole photographs by " Laura Moss i take clients to places they don't even know they [can go]," says interior designer Sally Wil- son, laughing. Take her recent project in Pride's Crossing. Wilson and her husband, John Kelsey, who is also her partner in their eponymously named Salem design firm, transformed a 5,500-square- foot Pride's Crossing condominium from a fea- tureless box into an opulent home redolent of the bygone Grand Tours, but also a casually com- fortable yet elegant family life and the happy me- mentos of generations of informed collectors. While homeowners Cheryl and Richard Durgan haven't experienced the Grand Tours or brought home French and Italian antiques, their new home perfectly expresses their aesthetic. "Sally got me," says Cheryl. Her husband agrees. They love the rich paneling and molding of their interior filled with Directoire and Re- gency furniture, gilded mirrors, Italian crystal and metal chandeliers, tapestries, and defining millwork. Here, finally, they feel at home. These parents and busy professionals had worked with architects and interior designers in the past, so when they downsized from a large suburban estate to this condominium—one-third the size of the former Ayer Estate carriage house— they knew enough to seek professional advice. But relationships did not click until a storekeeper steered them to the door of Wilson-Kelsey. the dining room. 129 salem design firm wilson-kelsey helps a busy couple transform their less-than-spectacular pride's crossing condominium into an opulent home reminiscent of a grand and bygone era.