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Northshore Home Spring 18

Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.

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99 The open plan is bolstered with bright shiplap paneling and soft finishes, flooding the one-story house with light and showcasing Dimes's signature style: classic and clean-lined but homey, with new and old pieces, many from the Barn at Todd Farm in Rowley. tion work, often outfitting homes, as she says, "from soup to nuts." "I wanted a feel that was totally open—one big gal- ley room, with a kitchen at one end and a dining room with a farm table in the middle," Dimes says. In the great room, a 10-foot ceiling allows for tran- soms over three pairs of French doors that reveal an old stonewall snaking along the line of trees. Gracing either side of the fireplace are two small four-light windows, perfectly harmonious. As Cummings notes, "The inten- tion is to let in as much light as we can, but it's done in a way that's tasteful. Skinny, tall doors wouldn't have been appropriate." The furnishings reflect Dimes's signature style: clas- sic and clean-lined but homey, with many handmade items. She collects both new and old pieces, many from the Barn at Todd Farm in Rowley. By the sofa in the great room is a handmade end table, made with an old restored toolbox with welded turned legs and antique handles from Run Run Studio in Cornish, Maine. The great room shows how sublime the melding of old and new can be. Over the fireplace is the first art- work Dimes ever purchased: an expressionist painting by George Lewis. Another artful touch is a pair of bronze giraffes from an old antiques store in Quincy Market, placed on a console. The floor, made of 5-inch planks

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