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60 | DECEMBER 2015 nshoremag.com meet with clients to discuss interior design ideas, her area of expertise. However, that wasn't always the case. With a degree in marine biol- ogy under her belt and two kids off to school, Bradley got thinking about the next step on her career path. It just happened to coincide with the time when Martha Stewart was storming the home décor scene. In- spired, Bradley returned to school. "The education was really chang- ing," she recalls. "When I started, I was going to get a certificate in interior design, then it became an associate's degree…then, I kept on going and got a bachelor's." Today, she applies all of what she learned and her energenic spir- it to her work in the barn, with her clients, at Pettengill Farm's yearly Vintage Bazaars, in her interior designs at Vermont's historic Sum- ner Mansion, and now in her new shop, Excentrique, which, in 1925, was home to the West Newbury Woman's Club. After many incarna- tions, Bradley has renovated it in such a way as to stress architectural details. For example, she has called attention to what was once a stage by adding a mirror to the existing mantel, hanging a teardrop chande- lier, opening the wall, and incorpo- rating salvaged columns. It's such details that make the place hum. The drop ceiling has been filled in with a light joint compound, sanded, and painted first with a deep dark grey, and then two coats of Ralph Lauren silver. The highly ir- regular patterning gives it character, while the custom window treat- ments, re-stuccoed walls coated in textured paint, dropped flower boxes, and new awnings add depth to the ensemble. Architectural salvage and pieces in "the class of black" round out the assemblage. "I wanted to carry the concept of the barn into the Creating effective little vignettes that blend the old with the new is one of Bradley's many talents.