BDG 24th Edition 2021
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CONTENTS<br />
30 Architects<br />
52 Custom Builders<br />
98 Interior Design<br />
124 Custom Kitchens, Baths & Appliances<br />
156 Finishes, Doors & Windows (Including<br />
Millwork, Wood Refinishing, Flooring,<br />
Stone & Tile)<br />
178 Home Integration & Lighting<br />
200 Landscape Architects<br />
214 Landscape<br />
232 Specialty & Home Furnishings<br />
14 FROM THE PUBLISHER<br />
20 LUSH LANDSCAPES!<br />
Glorious gardens and entryways, and inviting<br />
designs for outdoor living.<br />
44 BEHIND THE BOARDS<br />
Architect Doreve Nicholaeff reveals design notes<br />
and brave new work.<br />
50 SMALL-SCALE SPLENDOR<br />
A Pill Hill home big on character, not compromise.<br />
81 WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN<br />
A former workers’ cottage is given 21st-century flair.<br />
126 REFRIGERATION REDEFINED<br />
RootCellar Concepts brings a cool change to kitchens.<br />
212 CREATING YOUR BACKYARD OASIS<br />
The ideal way to put in a pool—and all that goes<br />
with it.<br />
255 INDEX<br />
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LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE.<br />
A client and builder reunite to craft a<br />
custom legacy house.<br />
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THE WONDER YEARS<br />
A personal resort designed with the<br />
kids in mind.<br />
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HARBOR LIGHT<br />
Relationships shine in a landmark<br />
Boston renovation.<br />
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TOWN & COUNTRY<br />
Diverse projects reveal the talent and<br />
range of designer Michael Carter.<br />
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SUN SALUTATION<br />
A modern vacation home brings organic<br />
beauty beachside.<br />
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Divine Design Center; Keitaro Yoshioka<br />
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Builders; Catalano Architects; Bierly-Drake<br />
and Steele, Inc.; Fine Finish Inc.; Warren<br />
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Architects; KVC Builders; Sudbury Design<br />
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MGa | Marcus Gleysteen Architects; Hurley<br />
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FROM THE PUBLISHER<br />
THE DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES<br />
As I sit down to write my publisher’s page, I always try<br />
hard not to repeat what I have said in years past—all<br />
23 of them. Before COVID-19 hit, I’ve said things like:<br />
“Invest in your home, the years of comfort and joy will<br />
pay off.” I’ve called the home “your sanctuary” and<br />
“your safe haven” and have written that “you define<br />
what comfort, luxury and safety means to your family.”<br />
And I could go on… Yet never have those words rung<br />
so true as they do now.<br />
Self-quarantining this past year has shown our resilience<br />
and strength. Our homes were transformed to make<br />
home offices and makeshift gyms for adults and kids.<br />
When the weather broke, we threw ourselves into our yards (an utter understatement<br />
for me), creating backyard oases large and small. Our homes have certainly been put<br />
to the test, and we are now fully aware of what we love and what could be improved.<br />
So, once again, I say look no further than the pages in this 24 th annual edition to see<br />
the best of the best in the home industry. And, may I add, DO NOT procrastinate in<br />
doing that next build or renovation; get it going now! The home industry is busy, but<br />
the lag time for services and products is challenging given the current climate, and<br />
you need to plan ahead for all the right reasons.<br />
Lastly, let me again use this space to properly thank the homeowners for letting us into<br />
their homes and properties to photograph and showcase the work of the professionals<br />
within this publication. The fact that they opened their doors to us, masks on our<br />
faces, to do what we do is incredible and a massive testament to just how much they<br />
value the talent of the professionals included here. And to our advertisers, who have<br />
supported <strong>BDG</strong> during these unsettling and unprecedented times, we thank you. Our<br />
readers need you more than ever.<br />
God bless our country and stay safe!<br />
BOSTON DESIGN GUIDE<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
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EDITOR<br />
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Warren Patterson<br />
Roger Pelissier<br />
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SPECIAL THANKS<br />
Daniel Kaplan<br />
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MAKING<br />
2. 3.<br />
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LANDSCAPES!<br />
4.<br />
AN ENTRANCE<br />
Whether lined by delicate, fresh-faced blooms, shocks of greenery, gated or<br />
carved in stone, these inspired pathways say welcome, beautifully.<br />
1. Traditional and contemporary elements harmonize in a tulip-lined gateway conceived by Matthew<br />
Cunningham Landscape Design. Here, antique Rockport granite meets blackened stainless steel art<br />
and an incredible show of spring bulbs. Landscape construction by Martin Lucyk Landscape Construction<br />
2. Granite walls and a stepping stone path lead the residents of a Duxbury property, cultivated by<br />
a Blade of Grass, to an enticing pool and patio beyond the wooden gate. Bursts of hydrangea and<br />
other bayside plantings soften the vista’s hard lines. Photo by Charles Mayer<br />
3. Thanks to Onyx Corporation, a Concord home heightens its connection to the landscape with<br />
drama and tranquility. Rectangular, black granite steps “float” over the glassy waters of a reflection<br />
pool that sits undisturbed beside a blue-gray terrace. Photo by Warren Patterson<br />
4. Flanked by natural grasses, hedges and bountiful container plantings, the walkway of a shingled<br />
Nantucket estate brings a bit of fanfare as it ascends from the yard to the veranda. With its lush<br />
freedom and hints of formality, Gregory Lombardi Design’s inspired landscape design captures the<br />
essence of the island. Landscape contracting by Atlantic Landscaping; photo by Richard Mandelkorn<br />
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Formal, carefree, historic or Japanese in spirit, these edens were carefully<br />
cultivated to delight the senses.<br />
1. This slice of paradise on Cape Cod, installed and maintained by the landscape artisans at Schumacher<br />
Companies is sunny and resplendent. The garden’s pleasing symmetry, punctuated by circular urns in<br />
full bloom and a sculpture at its center, invites nature lovers to stay awhile. Photo by Mitch Harper<br />
2. A lush pool garden by Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design is part of a verdant backyard escape.<br />
Its native plantings erupt against a disappearing, minimalist enclosure while rich wood fencing frames<br />
the terrain’s perimeter. Landscape construction by Phil Mastroianni Corp.; photo by Matthew Cunningham<br />
3. R.P. Marzilli & Company revived the exquisite beds and beauty of Newport, Rhode Island’s historic<br />
Blue Garden. The landscape professionals installed a comprehensive new planting plan—a glorious<br />
palette of texture and fields of purple and blue—that will preserve the intent of the private garden’s<br />
1913 design for posterity. Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture; photo by Marianne Lee Photography<br />
4. Spectacular and serene, this traditional Japanese Strolling Garden by Zen Associates was made<br />
for contemplation. Its features, including waterfalls, islands, bridges and tree and plant material,<br />
like a rare weeping hemlock, and mountain laurel and azaleas for spring color, were designed to<br />
inspire moments of peace and pause.<br />
GLORIOUS GA<br />
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1.<br />
OUTDOOR LIV<br />
Family playgrounds by the sea, courtyard living rooms and convivial<br />
poolside terraces bring the art of living en plein air to higher ground.<br />
1. This multitiered living space is a contemporary urban oasis in Boston’s South End. Crafted by<br />
a Blade of Grass for an avid entertainer, this striking enclosure uses every inch to its advantage, and<br />
includes fire and water features, artful lighting, an outdoor kitchen and lounge seating.<br />
2. R.P. Marzilli & Company carved this family paradise with a seaside lookout from an existing terrain of<br />
slope and ledge. Breathtaking by night and by day, the outdoor living areas include a bluestone dining<br />
terrace, fire pit, infinity pool and dramatic fire piers that alight the pool wall. Landscape architecture by Tucker<br />
Architecture and Landscape; photo by Rosemary Fletcher Photography<br />
3. This fire feature and terrace, designed by Gregory Lombardi Design and constructed by Landscape<br />
Creations, is part of an outdoor program that offers family-centric “rooms” for every season. This feelgood<br />
setting uses classic New England materials, like granites and bluestone, to cultivate a California vibe.<br />
Architecture: Morehouse MacDonald and Associates; construction: Sanford Custom Builders; photo by Nat Rea Photography<br />
4. A sparkling pool terrace crafted by the Schumacher Companies is upbeat and refreshing with its Black<br />
Irish limestone, red brick and a circular fire feature. Arcing streams of water from custom spouts within the<br />
coping complete the effect, making a gentle splash. Photo by Mitch Harper<br />
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HARBOR LIGHT<br />
RELATIONSHIPS SHINE IN A LANDMARK BOSTON RENOVATION.<br />
At the outset of a renovation in Boston’s iconic Rowes<br />
Wharf building, after the homeowners announced their<br />
objectives, the residents, the team at FBN Construction,<br />
and architects David Foley and Paul Fiore of Foley Fiore<br />
Architecture formed a huddle, extending their arms in<br />
the middle, football style. Just after the shout, “One,<br />
two, three, break!” and the release of hands came<br />
“the touchdown,” explains President Bob Ernst of FBN<br />
Construction, the moment that crystallizes the shared goals<br />
and convictions of the project’s key players. “That’s where<br />
you want to get to,” he says, a place without egos or<br />
competing agendas wholly focused on the client’s vision.<br />
Foley Fiore Architecture has worked with FBN<br />
Construction for 20 years, and the firms have established<br />
an equal relationship founded on transparency, openness<br />
and trust. “We respect each other’s strengths, says<br />
Principal Architect Paul Fiore, standing within the<br />
waterside living room of their latest endeavor, a flawless<br />
unit on Rowes Wharf. “And boundaries,” adds Ernst,<br />
completing the sentence, leaving little doubt that their<br />
collaborative approach and rapport benefits the builds<br />
they tackle together.<br />
Especially when a project is a bit of a puzzle. Such is the<br />
case for this particular home, a gut renovation in which<br />
the architects sought to reposition the placement of the<br />
kitchen to the back, inner corner of the living space in<br />
order to expand the home’s sparkling harborside views.<br />
“It’s not that big a space,” says David Foley, who served<br />
as the lead architect on the project, “but that single move<br />
could mean everything.”<br />
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Rather than wasting time, and saying, I wonder if we<br />
could?, Foley Fiore posed the question to FBN Vice<br />
President and Project Manager Bob Murray, whose staff<br />
has worked within all corners of this building for 20 years<br />
and is intimately acquainted with the systems and bones of<br />
the building and what can and can’t be done—though the<br />
latter never sits well with the firm.<br />
“We are loath to say, ‘You can’t do that,’” says Ernst;<br />
instead, FBN willingly investigates improbabilities and<br />
finds creative solutions. Usually it’s the available utilities,<br />
drains, water and concrete slab floors that are the hurdle.<br />
And while those considerations aren’t as sexy to discuss as,<br />
say, backlit bars, custom kitchens and plush window seats,<br />
those are the very considerations that, once deciphered,<br />
allow the aforementioned—and more glamorous—<br />
features to exist. “We work with the architect to tweak the<br />
design to accommodate the limitations,” shares Ernst,<br />
“without being a limiting factor ourselves.”<br />
There is also a sense of great warmth and texture. The<br />
color palette leans heavily on taupe, with some gray<br />
striations, to offset the cool watery blues and blue-greens,<br />
and even the metalwork, found in the door frames,<br />
shelving and surrounding the fireplace, was cast in an<br />
inviting patina. The overall effect—of the build itself and<br />
the views—is beguiling. The setting “is beautiful at all<br />
times,” says Foley, before mentioning that he always<br />
looked forward to coming to the jobsite. Imagine then,<br />
how it must feel to come home.<br />
Architecture: Foley Fiore Architecture<br />
Construction: FBN Construction<br />
Kitchen Design and Cabinetry: Divine Design Center<br />
Millwork and Millwork Finishing: Furniture Design Services<br />
Metalwork: Metalmorfis<br />
Tile Installation: Installations Plus<br />
Kitchen Stonework Installation: TBR Marble & Granite<br />
Photography: Greg Premru<br />
Text: Sandy Giardi<br />
And this home is better for it. Getting the green light to<br />
reposition the kitchen enabled the architects to completely<br />
rework the unit into an open, seamless living space that<br />
flows from the new kitchen, bar and dining area into the<br />
living room, a more private sitting area, and, ultimately,<br />
the master bedroom and a beautiful marble bathroom.<br />
The redesign enabled the team to use the three windows,<br />
and their ever-changing panoramas, to full advantage, and<br />
reimagine the setting to reflect what Foley calls a “warm<br />
modern” aesthetic.<br />
The result is a city sanctuary that showcases exquisite<br />
materials and craftsmanship. Custom cabinetry abounds,<br />
and Foley worked with Principal Designer Mariette<br />
Barsoum of Divine Design Center on the design details<br />
of the kitchen, bar and a storage area by the dining table.<br />
Together, they selected Doca cabinetry—a contemporary,<br />
Spanish line—finished in a custom paint and a rift sawn oak<br />
stain, and angled the kitchen around a striking peninsula<br />
with a tapered design and a quartzite top. “The idea was<br />
to carve out amazing storage even within a small space,”<br />
says Barsoum, “and to have everything concealed.”<br />
While the home is “crisp and modern, there is a sense<br />
of tradition, too,” says Foley. Inspired detailing, like<br />
graduated, stepped baseboards and moldings, and<br />
a current take on a coffered ceiling, allow the owners’<br />
collection of clocks and antiques to feel at home even<br />
within the home’s modern lines.<br />
Top, the architects changed the position of the powder-room<br />
door to create a space of its own, separate from the laundry and<br />
utilities. Inside, it’s a textural feast, with concrete tiles from Ann<br />
Sacks and Keystone Basalt Combed Tile by Waterworks inlaid by<br />
Installations Plus; left, a second sitting area was originally a guest<br />
room, and it still functions as such, thanks to its pullout couch.<br />
Jake Ducharme of Metalmorfis and Chris Rice of Furniture Design<br />
Services collaborated on the fireplace wall. Ducharme fabricated<br />
the steel surround while Rice crafted the rift sawn stained oak<br />
millwork. The electric fireplace is by European Home.<br />
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Architects<br />
New England is known the world over for<br />
its architecture. Classic Colonials, coastal<br />
Shingle Styles and rural farmhouses mingle<br />
with elegant brownstones, sky-high condos<br />
and cutting-edge contemporaries. Together,<br />
the region’s homes create a celebration of<br />
beauty, function and form.<br />
Courtesy of Mellowes & Paladino Architects<br />
Photography by Trent Bell<br />
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ARCHITECTURE<br />
COMFORT<br />
ART<br />
Photography - Clockwise From Top Left:<br />
Sean Litchfield, Eric Roth, Greg Premru,<br />
Sean Litchfield, Greg Premru, Greg Premru.
CAMBRIDGE | CAPE & ISLANDS<br />
617 621-1455<br />
www.LDa-Architects.com
Boston, MA | 617.542.6060 | mgaarchitects.com<br />
129 Kingston St. Boston MA | 617.542.6060 | mgaarchitects.com
FOLEY FIORE ARCHITECTURE<br />
617.547.8002
Photo Credit: Read McKendree<br />
ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
617.744.6399 | WWW.SLOCUMHALLDESIGN.COM
PETER VANDERWARKER PHOTOGRAPHY
Photo Trent Bell<br />
508 625-1371 City | Town | Coastal<br />
www.mellowespaladino.com
At <strong>BDG</strong>, we’ve followed the projects of Doreve Nicholaeff,<br />
principal of Nicholaeff Architecture + Design for years<br />
with respect, admiration and more than a little awe. We’ve<br />
experienced an extended cupola on the Cape overlooking<br />
the bay and walked a brick and cedar shingle revelation in<br />
Brookline. And while traditional homes and arcing forms are well<br />
represented within her body of work, her portfolio may not tell<br />
the full story. We caught up with Nicholaeff to learn more about<br />
her current work, her compositional approach, and why you’ll<br />
never sell a traditionalist on a modern design. The professional<br />
statements here, and her explanations, may surprise you….<br />
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ARCHITECT DOREVE NICHOLAEFF DIVULGES DESIGN<br />
NOTES AND PHILOSOPHIES, AND BRAVE NEW WORK.<br />
Doreve Nicholaeff can take a hard line.<br />
People look at our work and think: “She only does curves.”<br />
But that is just not true. While radial elements can be<br />
really special at the right moment—there is no question<br />
about it—the geometry of a home depends on the person,<br />
on the piece of property and on the type of aesthetic<br />
someone is looking for.<br />
Though based in Osterville, Nicholaeff isn’t solely a<br />
Cape Cod architect. She often crosses the bridge.<br />
While we do have a number of projects under way on<br />
Cape Cod, we also have a project in Newport right now<br />
and are working on a few projects in the Boston area.<br />
Her background is steeped in modern design, and she<br />
would like to do more of it.<br />
I grew up in South Africa, where the architecture was<br />
more modern than it is in New England. When I came to the<br />
Northeast, it was eye-opening how traditional people were.<br />
I am finding now that people are in search of transitional<br />
ideas and are more open to a different aesthetic.<br />
That said, you cannot sell a very modern house to a<br />
traditional person.<br />
As an architect, I try to immerse myself in the clients’<br />
wishes and dreams. Where a client grew up and what<br />
they’ve been exposed to influences their mindset. It’s as<br />
if you’re acting a part, and trying to understand what they<br />
are looking for. I push as much as I possibly can, but I know<br />
when to back off. The satisfaction of doing a project that<br />
makes the client happy is enormous—and you’ll never make<br />
a person happy if they come from a traditional background<br />
and you put them in a modern house. It just doesn’t work.<br />
Nicholaeff championed an indoor-outdoor connection<br />
long before it was popular.<br />
For me, it has always been about how you relate interior<br />
to exterior. Always. It’s not a new thing. It is about the<br />
relationship to the site, how the pieces fit on the land and<br />
how they relate to the sun. And if there are no views, how<br />
do you create those views and work with the environment?<br />
She thinks as a sculptor as well as an architect.<br />
I definitely think very carefully about how pieces fit<br />
together architecturally. It’s not just about one piece being<br />
attached to another; it really has to merge together. It’s<br />
about the composition.<br />
Nicholaeff’s structures inspire emotional responses.<br />
There is a deliberate sense of calm to the spaces I create.<br />
There are also moments of suspense and surprise. It’s not<br />
just a room I’m creating. It’s more poetic.<br />
There is no ‘one’ dream project.<br />
Every project has a unique quality to it. Once I get into it,<br />
I always develop a special part and we work off that. Right<br />
now, for example, we are working on a modern tree house<br />
with a floating deck on one end that blends in with the<br />
trees. It is cool and stunning, so stay tuned.<br />
Photography: Left: Richard Mandelkorn (top row); Dan Cutrona<br />
(bottom left); Michael J. Lee (bottom right); Right: Mitch Harper<br />
(left); Michael J. Lee (right)<br />
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PETER SACHS - ARCHITECT<br />
Photo by Keitaro Yoshioka<br />
peter@petersachsarchitect.com<br />
www.petersachsarchitect.com<br />
Specializing in Design/Build<br />
20 Hunter Street, Newton, MA<br />
phone: 617.527.5777<br />
I I S I M P L Y C L A S S I C<br />
S I M P L Y C L A S S I C<br />
DUCKHAM<br />
A R C HITECT U R E & IIN TTE ER RI OI OR RS<br />
S<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
www.kent d ud cu c kham .co m 53 Centr a l A v e n u e e , , N eedham, MA MA 02494 781.449.4109<br />
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Shai Gil Photography<br />
adolfoperez.com 617.527.7442 office@adolfoperez.com
PHOTO BY: DAN CUTRONA<br />
NICHOLAEFF ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN<br />
508-420-5298 • www.nicholaeff.com
catherine truman architects<br />
architecture • interior design • renovation • truman-architects.com • 857.285.2500
Splendor<br />
SMALL-SCALE<br />
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Due to its symmetry and circulation, the home lives large despite<br />
its square footage. To make up for the long views the property<br />
lacks, the landscape was brought clear up to the windows.<br />
W<br />
A<br />
finely detailed new home in Brookline is big on character<br />
and elegance—not compromise.<br />
Within the bucolic neighborhood of Brookline’s Pill Hill,<br />
a historic district so named for the doctors in residence<br />
who wanted an idyllic locale and proximity to Boston’s top<br />
hospitals, lies a surprise of a house designed by Meyer<br />
& Meyer Architecture and Interiors. The finely-detailed<br />
home, which sits atop a leafy slope, is a revelation for a few<br />
reasons. Firstly, at only 4,000 square feet, it represents a<br />
departure from the 15,000-square-foot estates, and<br />
castles, even, for which the elite architectural and interior<br />
design firm is known. Secondly, it was created for a young<br />
developer and his family, who saw value in embedding a<br />
new home within the enclave’s architectural fabric that<br />
looks every bit the part of its well-established neighbors.<br />
Homeowners have choices when designing a new home.<br />
“‘New’ doesn’t have to mean different,” underscores Cofounder<br />
and Principal Interior Designer Laura Meyer. “It<br />
can mean anything that is important to the client.” In this<br />
case, that means a medium-sized residence with plenty of<br />
character and specialty details that reinforce the integrity<br />
of the neighborhood. The beauty of this home is that it fits<br />
in, asserts Principal Architect and Co-Founder John Meyer.<br />
“It’s not taking as much as it’s giving back.”<br />
At Meyer & Meyer, “the creativity of the architecture isn’t<br />
found in the style of home, it’s what’s underneath,”John<br />
continues. For that, the firm draws on its wealth of design<br />
skills, culled from decades of conceiving palatial estates, to<br />
create a refined “home within reach.” Says John, “We can<br />
play with the dimensions and the proportions and stretch<br />
it across the lot in a way that makes it look just as elegant<br />
as any of the 12,000-square-foot homes in its midst.” As for<br />
the interiors? Artful tactics—positioning a striking dining<br />
room within eyeshot of the foyer, designing a ceremonious<br />
stair that ascends to the second floor, wrapping a corner of<br />
the kitchen with an expanse of windows—give the living<br />
spaces a feeling of grace and grandeur.<br />
Best of all, its owners won’t feel compelled to downsize<br />
once the kids have grown. “It’s designed for a lifetime,”<br />
says John, “and your kids, and kids’ kids. It’s part of the<br />
family.” Visit meyerandmeyerarchitects.com to learn more.<br />
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Custom<br />
Builders<br />
Deeply committed to craft,<br />
custom builders and professionals in the<br />
design/build field put a plan, and often<br />
a dream, in action. Through hands-on work,<br />
they navigate the construction process,<br />
the players and the pieces until the<br />
many moving parts become or<br />
transform ‘home.’<br />
Courtesy of Sea-Dar Construction; Steven Harris Architects LLP;<br />
Photograph by Scott Frances/OTTO Photography<br />
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passion<br />
for<br />
detail<br />
MASSACHUSETTS | NEW HAMPSHIRE | MAINE<br />
www.cmragusa.com
Gordon Beall Photography<br />
A Family Business of<br />
Building Family Homes
508-650-9880 . South Natick, Massachusetts . soderholmbuilders.com
Architect: MGa | Marcus Gleysteen Architects<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson
Flawless homes built for generations<br />
Wellesley, MA<br />
781-416-7007<br />
www.sanfordcustom.com<br />
SANFORD<br />
Custom Builders Inc.
Architecture by Patrick Ahearn; Photography by Sam Gray
New Homes | Renovations | Historic Preservation<br />
Home Maintenance | Small Projects<br />
171 Reservoir St., Needham, MA 02494 | falloncustomhomes.com | 781.237.0505
Columbia Contracting Corp. prizes communication every step of the way, ensuring<br />
that clients’ expectations are not only met, they’re surpassed.<br />
(office) 508-655-4070<br />
(cell) 617-293-6145<br />
www.columbiacon.com<br />
Architecture: D. Michael Collins; Photography: Warren Patterson;<br />
Portrait Photography: Roger Pelissier
PROfile<br />
Kistler & Knapp Builders<br />
draws on over 40 years<br />
of fine craftsmanship to<br />
reflect the most demanding<br />
architectural concepts.<br />
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CITYCHIC<br />
PROfile<br />
With over 40 years of building experience, Kistler & Knapp Builders, Inc. is one of<br />
the most highly-regarded construction firms in the Greater Boston region. Their work<br />
reflects the finest craftsmanship and the most demanding architectural concepts.<br />
Kistler & Knapp has always understood the importance of effective communication<br />
and working well with the entire team in all aspects of the building process. The<br />
foundation of their reputation rests on expert management, transparent accounting<br />
and fiscal prudence. Owners Doug Stevenson and Renée West are committed to<br />
creating successful relationships during construction and well into the future, thereby<br />
maintaining a legacy of excellence in fine home construction. And Kistler and<br />
Knapp’s Home Services Division is there for the long haul, maintaining their clients’<br />
homes well into the future.<br />
916 Main Street<br />
Acton, MA 01720<br />
(978) 635-9700<br />
www.kistlerandknapp.com<br />
Architect: Ruhl Studio Architects<br />
Interior Designer: Bill Lewis<br />
Photographer: Warren Patterson<br />
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BRING YOUR VISION TO LIFE.<br />
@oldgrovepartners | 781-214-6234 | oldgrovepartners.com
Boston | New York | Cape & Islands<br />
SEADAR.COM<br />
LDa Architecture; Eric Roth Photography<br />
Ann Beha Architects; Eric Roth Photography<br />
Custom Residential ConstRuCtion<br />
and PRoPeRty seRviCes<br />
seadar.com
Hopkinton, Massachusetts<br />
508-435-4290 | ewtarcaconstruction.com<br />
Your Vision. Your Dreams. Your Builder.<br />
Mellowes & Paladino Architects; Julia Robinson Photography<br />
E.W. Tarca is proud to have partnered with the Gary Sinise R.I.S.E. Foundation to<br />
build this one of a kind specially adapted home for our veterans.
CATALANO ARCHITECTS, INC. GREG PREMRU PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
CREATE<br />
SOMETHING<br />
REMARKABLE<br />
BOSTON | 617-547-2800<br />
CAPE COD | 508-300-3000<br />
jwconstructioninc.com
781.861.0086<br />
brookesandhill.com<br />
Architect: Marcus Gleysteen; Interior Designer: Hurley Hafen; Photographer: Douglas Friedman Photography
MEDFIELD | CHATHAM<br />
WWW.WHITLABROTHERS.COM | 508-359-4292
SHERBORN, MA – 508.655.9017 | SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MA – 508.999.7710<br />
WWW.HOWLANDCOMPANYINC.COM<br />
Architecture: Catalano Architects: Photography: Warren Patterson
design: Maryann Thompson Architects<br />
bannon<br />
Imagine a home, build a legacy<br />
www.bannonbuilds.com | 508-833-0050
Interior Design: Kim Kirby, Photography: Cory Silken<br />
Workmanship guaranteed for life<br />
CUSTOM HOMES - HISTORIC RESTORATION - CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT<br />
KIRBY PERKINS<br />
NEWPORT<br />
210 Old Airport Road - Middletown, RI 02842 - tel (401) 848-0150 - fax (401) 848-0178<br />
www.kirbyperkins.com
PROfile<br />
Quality Craftsmanship<br />
Lien Enterprises Custom Builders and Renovators brings experience and quality craftsmanship to<br />
luxury home building.<br />
Our homes are distinguished by timeless elegance, and an attention to craft and detail. Lien Custom<br />
Homes works with clients from the ground up, creating premier custom residences they’ll love to<br />
come home to. We take a collaborative, team approach and value accountability.<br />
Lien Enterprises serves the Greater Metrowest area, including Wellesley, Weston, Concord and<br />
Newton, and offers remodeling, renovations, additions and restoration in addition to new constructions.<br />
978-804-5083<br />
www.liencustombuilders.com<br />
Kate Coughlin Interiors; Fine Finish, Inc.<br />
Warren Patterson Photography<br />
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A quality craftsman creates the perfect fit between materials. A quality homebuilder ensures<br />
the perfect fit between architect, designer, and client vision. At C2MG, we are both craftsmen<br />
and builders focused on serving the discerning clientele of Boston and the Northshore.<br />
C2MG — The Perfect Fit<br />
239 Boston St, Ste 202<br />
Topsfield, MA 01983<br />
C2MGbuilders.com<br />
follow on Instagram<br />
@C2MGbuilders<br />
1 (978) 380-8867
Photography: Jeffrey S. Adams<br />
WE HAVE ONE SIMPLE CONCEPT:<br />
Build the best team of in-house staff, support them with a core<br />
network of highly skilled subcontractors and clients will come…<br />
and come back.<br />
Photography: Shelly Harrison<br />
NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION AND LARGE-SCALE RENOVATIONS THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS<br />
781-703-5970 | 31 GREEN STREET, WALTHAM, MA 02451 | WWW.CONCEPTBUILDINGINC.COM
Photography: Jared Kuzia<br />
QUALITY | CRAFTSMANSHIP | SUPERIOR SERVICE<br />
NATICK, MA | 508-846-5519 | MLYNCHREMODELING.COM
Architecture: DiMauro Architects; Photography: Warren Jagger<br />
INSTAGRAM @WKP_CONSTRUCTION<br />
QUALITY CONSTRUCTION.<br />
DISTINCTIVE CRAFTSMANSHIP.<br />
TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS.<br />
401.619.3909 | WKPCONSTRUCTION.COM | BELLEVUE AVE., NEWPORT, RI
Building on a legacy of three generations of craftsmen.<br />
CUSTOM HOMES<br />
RESTORATION<br />
RENOVATION<br />
617.549.1542 BOSTON<br />
mccormackbuilders.com
agaiN<br />
what’s old is<br />
New<br />
A FORMER WORKERS' COTTAGE IN WESTWOOD<br />
IS GIVEN 21ST-CENTURY FLAIR<br />
Bob O’Connor Photography<br />
It isn’t often that one gets the chance to rewrite history. Yet McCormack Builders was given just such<br />
an opportunity when the custom contractor gave a former 1800s-eras workers’ cottage a new lease<br />
on life. The dwelling had previously housed the staff of a well-to-do Westwood landowner, who<br />
resided in the Georgian mansion up the hill. Now, centuries later, the home has been reimagined<br />
by Brown Fenollosa Architects, Inc. and<br />
reconstructed to serve a modern family.<br />
The main house with an attached barn was one of a<br />
few structures on a historic, seven-acre property to<br />
be reborn over the course of 15 years, in phases. An<br />
old icehouse, which was razed and resurrected as a<br />
small home for the owner’s parents 400 to 500 feet<br />
away, was another. In its past life, the building stored<br />
ice, cut from the adjacent pond, that was brought to<br />
Boston by horse and cart for sale.<br />
When Principal Zeke Brown first embarked on the<br />
master plan for the project, it was clear the site held<br />
a significant architectural and engineering history.<br />
The entire property, in fact, is constructed atop the<br />
dam of the pond, and the site is riddled with old,<br />
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The old and new peacefully coexist within this home. While the<br />
brackets, trim and architectural detailing of the façade replicate the<br />
original, the home also employs modern-day amenities, like top-ofthe-line<br />
black aluminum Marvin windows and an expansive lift-andslide<br />
door that opens to the grounds. All of the stone was sourced in<br />
Vermont and granite salvaged from the demolition is used throughout<br />
the property, including within steps that descend to a lower courtyard.<br />
This homeowner served as the interior designer, selecting colors,<br />
cabinetry, finishes and fixtures for what is clearly a passion project.<br />
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and often confounding, civil engineering systems that<br />
reliably keep the water level from rising and falling to this<br />
day, among other vestiges of the past. Brown, together<br />
with McCormack Builders, who joined the project a little<br />
over two years ago for the conservation work prior to<br />
beginning construction, would safeguard the site’s legacy.<br />
“Brown’s work centers on respecting what was there<br />
100-200 years ago while carefully merging it with<br />
modern elements,” says Owner Michael McCormack of<br />
McCormack Builders. “Our goal was always to maintain<br />
the history of the property,” so the team painstakingly<br />
matched period details and heeded the original footprint<br />
for an accurate portrayal. “That was the key,” explains<br />
McCormack. “We wanted to do the property justice.”<br />
The architect and builder stayed true to the “cottage”<br />
character on the home’s façade, replicating the structure’s<br />
two chimneys, and the original dormer of the front door<br />
(pictured opposite) that encroaches on the authentic<br />
red cedar roof. The foundation was crafted to resemble<br />
the original stone wall, while the radial sawn white<br />
cedar clapboard siding was sourced and manually cut<br />
at a mill in Vermont. Wood was salvaged and reused on<br />
interior surfaces, while original hardware and doors were<br />
preserved and stored by the homeowner for future use.<br />
Elsewhere, liberties were taken to suit the homeowners’<br />
lifestyle and propel the home’s amenities, technologies<br />
and efficiencies to the present day. The ceiling heights, for<br />
example, stand taller than those of the past, a deck was<br />
added above the sunroom, and lift-and-slide doors usher<br />
views of the pond and the grounds into the living spaces.<br />
And while the floor plan has been opened up a bit, the<br />
rooms hearken back to the coziness of yesteryear.<br />
The interiors are a striking mix of old meets new—often<br />
in the very same scene. Custom cabinetry abounds, and a<br />
wood treatment of crisp, white nickel-gap pine lines most<br />
walls of the first floor, the ceilings of the second story, and<br />
wraps two Sub-Zero refrigerators in the kitchen. A newel<br />
post dating back to the 1800s anchors the stair, while a<br />
beautiful marble master bath with its door-less design<br />
responds to a decidedly recent trend. “Every space is<br />
unique and distinctive,” says McCormack, “laced with<br />
wonderful moments that take you back in time.”<br />
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508-842-2015 | LANCASTER, MA | QFDESIGNBUILD.COM<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson
CUSTOM HOMES | DESIGN/BUILD | GREEN BUILDING<br />
www.yankeebarnhomes.com<br />
603.288.1574
McKay Architects; Warren Patterson Photography<br />
COLLABORATE + BUILD<br />
97 CHAPEL STREET - NEEDHAM, MA<br />
HAWTHORN-BUILDERS.COM 781.707.6564<br />
BROOKLINE NEEDHAM NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON
Photography: Richard Mandelkorn<br />
96 SWAMPSCOTT ROAD, SALEM, MA 01970 | 781-592-3135 | GROOMCO.COM/<strong>BDG</strong>
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Love.<br />
A happy client and builder reunite to<br />
create a custom Colonial Revival that<br />
truly reflects their lifestyle.<br />
The success of a warm and welcoming new<br />
construction in a desirable Boston suburb<br />
was, in large part, due to the fact that the<br />
residents and Soderholm Custom Builders<br />
had been here before. Owners Sam and Ken Soderholm<br />
had previously constructed two homes for this young<br />
family; they’ve watched the homeowners’ children grow,<br />
and their needs and lifestyle subtly shift with the years.<br />
So, when the time came to create a new manor house<br />
for the active, modern family that trades bunk beds and<br />
safety gates for homework spaces, a smoothie zone and<br />
fireside cocoa, as well as inviting spaces for entertaining<br />
a tight-knit extended family and friends, Soderholm<br />
Custom Builders was there, as they had always been.<br />
The shared history and experience of the previous<br />
builds informed the making of this next ‘generational’<br />
house, a highly detailed, wholly livable residence that<br />
would serve as the new family seat. Once the perfect<br />
site was procured, architect Tom Catalano, AIA, principal<br />
of Catalano Architects, was charged with designing a<br />
legacy house that would support and enhance the busy,<br />
joy-filled years ahead.<br />
The family has always been passionate about their<br />
home, but this time around, they had a confidence, too.<br />
The husband-and-wife team divided and conquered<br />
when addressing how their personal spaces should look<br />
and work, and were a unified front when collaborating<br />
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The great room artfully mixes brick, stone,<br />
steel and soft fabrics and furnishings to create<br />
a home of exceptional appeal and authenticity.<br />
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on the entertaining and family spaces. They knew exactly<br />
what they wanted: a feel-good, functional environment<br />
that enriches every day. Soderholm Custom Builders knew<br />
exactly how to make it happen, the first step being to<br />
assemble the talent behind the build.<br />
“We had a rapport with the homeowners,” shares Sam,<br />
and, perhaps above all, trust. “We were brought in<br />
very quickly to guide them in bringing in the rest of the<br />
team,” which, in addition to Catalano Architects, included<br />
landscape architect Sudbury Design Group; landscape<br />
contractor The Schumacher Companies; interior design<br />
firm Bierly-Drake and Steele, Inc.; Peter Murray of Fine<br />
Finish; Herrick & White Architectural Woodworkers; Wayne<br />
Towle Master Finishing and Restoration; Kochman Reidt +<br />
Haigh Cabinetmakers; and O’Hara & Company, as well as a<br />
long list of other top-tier professionals and subcontractors.<br />
The porch has automated Phantom screens, LED lighting and<br />
integrated speakers by DC Home Systems. O’Hara & Company built<br />
the fireplace at its core. During construction, at one point Peter<br />
Murray’s framework “looked like a rib cage,” says Sam, to support all of<br />
the trim yet allow for the screen openings.<br />
“The homeowners had a very specific program that<br />
informed our design,” offers architect Tom Catalano.<br />
“They were seeking strong symmetry and balance of<br />
form that would allow for sun filled, comfortable spaces<br />
that welcomed their daily routines and offered additional<br />
functionality.” The first floor consists of formal and casual<br />
living areas, as well as individual work spaces for the family.<br />
“The two-story grand entry gradually transitions to more<br />
casual everyday living spaces, featuring hand molded brick<br />
for a sophisticated yet relaxed industrial feel.”<br />
Every detail has import, and there is no doubt the<br />
homeowners’ thoughtful input elevated the home. They<br />
relayed,“ this is how our family lives and this is how<br />
we want to live in this space,” says Interior designer<br />
Chris Drake, principal of Bierly-Drake and Steele. They<br />
knew the kids’ homework stations should be near the<br />
kitchen, that each child’s mudroom locker should have a<br />
charging station, and that a trough-style sink might curtail<br />
toothpaste trails. Topics like how much water pressure<br />
is needed during the morning rush were also part of the<br />
conversation. Sam, with his wealth of project experience,<br />
thrives on hammering out this kind of minutiae, locating<br />
efficiencies, and staying two steps ahead, while never<br />
losing sight of the big picture. “I work on one project at<br />
a time,” says Sam, from inside the spotless mechanical<br />
room, answering the question How do you do it? before<br />
it’s asked. “I enjoy this,” he smiles.<br />
The “less-grand spaces” received the most attention. The<br />
great room, for example, is a highly complex space with<br />
exposed brick columns and an upscale, factory-meetsgreenhouse<br />
sensibility that is both an aesthetic tour de<br />
force and a feat of engineering. It is also a testament to the<br />
work of Peter Murray; there is steel beneath the “linened”<br />
walls (a signature Bierly-Drake textural application) to<br />
support the decorative steel trusses and the skylight that<br />
pierces the ceiling to bathe the space in light. To create<br />
the space, Murray crafted guides out of MDF plywood,<br />
explains Sam, and “John Kelley of Kelley Welding built us<br />
the steel to build the room based on those templates.”<br />
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Architectural woodwork by Herrick & White, with a custom<br />
finish by Wayne Towle Master Finishing and Restoration.<br />
The exposed beams are by New Energy Works; Adaptive<br />
Fabrication built the metal windows and doors to the gym.<br />
Construction: Soderholm Custom Builders<br />
Architecture: Catalano Architects<br />
Interior Design: Bierly-Drake and Steele, Inc.<br />
Landscape Architecture: Sudbury Design Group<br />
Landscape Construction: The Schumacher Companies<br />
Civil Engineer: Metrowest Engineering<br />
Structural Engineer: Roome and Guarracino<br />
Masonry: O’Hara & Company<br />
Millwork: Fine Finish; Kochman Reidt + Haigh Cabinetmakers;<br />
Herrick & White, Ki3<br />
Custom Finishing: Wayne Towle Master Finishing<br />
and Restoration<br />
Stone: United Marble Fabricators; Cumar, Inc.<br />
Limestone Flooring: Paris Ceramics<br />
Home Automation: DC Home Systems<br />
Fencing and Pergola: Walpole Outdoors<br />
Photography: Gordon Beall, Randall Garnick,<br />
Warren Patterson<br />
Text: Sandy Giardi<br />
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Paul Reidt, principal of Kochman Reidt + Haigh<br />
Cabinetmakers (KR+H), looked to the great room when<br />
conceiving the kitchen design, using its “honest and<br />
casual” vocabulary to develop a friendly yet industrious<br />
space full of character and visual texture. Reidt “tried to<br />
find the right balance between the industrial feel and the<br />
level of refinement that the house demands,” he explains,<br />
and his firm ultimately landed on a rich combination of<br />
weathered wood from reclaimed barn board (finished with<br />
a “super dull topcoat”) for the oversized island, concrete<br />
countertops, and metalwork and glass cabinets that bring<br />
both shimmer and brawn into the heart of the home.<br />
The lower level, what the interior design team describes as<br />
“a very funky and very fun family and guest hangout area<br />
with a ‘rathskeller’ sensibility,” was again designed to be<br />
used and enjoyed. Bierly-Drake and Steele incorporated<br />
hardy, soft-to-the-feel indoor-outdoor fabrics and<br />
tempered the space’s industrial accents with furnishings in<br />
shades of toasty brown, salvaged beams and “expressions<br />
of the resident’s strong respect for antiques.” A handsome<br />
bar and tap area, crafted by cabinetmakers Herrick &<br />
White, was given a custom finish by Wayne Towle that<br />
delivers the time-tested tone of a favorite watering hole.<br />
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As the owners love blue, the hue was interwoven with taupe and crisp white for a clean, current look.<br />
French Refined Limestone, dished and distressed, by Paris Ceramics, graces the hallways, foyer and great<br />
room. Owner Richard Abbott of Paris Ceramics shares that the stone will patina and age beautifully with<br />
time. The wet bar features an onyx stone counter by Cumar, Inc. that is backlit for added drama.<br />
The first floor level, while more formal in spirit, was also<br />
designed with mirth and mingling in mind; in fact, the<br />
house as a whole was set up to allow the homeowners<br />
to entertain family and friends on different levels at the<br />
same time. And, though the exterior envelope has a<br />
gracious, intricately detailed architectural flair that is in<br />
keeping with the neighborhood context, inside, Catalano<br />
sought a comfortable design with playful elements that<br />
speak to the family’s values and lack of pretense. While he<br />
employed traditional elements, he says, “It’s not an uptight<br />
composition.”<br />
Occasionally, there are moments of glam that underscore<br />
the homeowners’ convivial mindset and penchant for “a<br />
little sparkle.” Chris Drake and Will Steele were pleased to<br />
comply, and answered by introducing mirrored elements<br />
that spotlight the architecture and a few fanciful focal<br />
points, like the jewel box of a wet bar in the living room.<br />
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Their experience absolutely came<br />
into play. If the homeowners had<br />
built this house 10 years ago, it<br />
probably would have been<br />
an entirely different home.<br />
Everything just came<br />
together.<br />
—Sam Soderholm<br />
Millwork is essential in this home.<br />
Early on, it was decided to have square<br />
elements within the woodwork, crafted<br />
by Peter Murray of Fine Finish, painted<br />
“a very bright, shiny white to play it up,”<br />
says interior designer Chris Drake.<br />
The door is by Herrick & White<br />
Architectural Woodworkers.<br />
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The architecture of this home is masterful.<br />
Tom Catalano has produced a highly detailed,<br />
highly ornamental—almost patrician—house.<br />
—Paul Reidt<br />
“The formality at the front façade is tempered with a pergola<br />
running adjacent to the side wing at the northern part of the<br />
property,” offers Catalano. The brick detailing, by O’Hara &<br />
Company, ties the building to the terrain, and introduces color<br />
and texture. Exterior trim by Fine Finish, Inc.<br />
Right: A granite terrace, encircled by a New England<br />
fieldstone fireplace, is etched into the site’s topography.<br />
Landscape construction by The Schumacher Companies;<br />
fireplace and stone walls by O’Hara & Company. Windows and<br />
doors by LePage Millwork; roof by Joseph T. Cazeault & Sons.<br />
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Most rooms open wide to the verdant backyard via a<br />
thoughtful procession of doors, illuminated by gas lanterns.<br />
Granite porches and terraces serve as “continuous<br />
landings off the house,” explains Landscape Architect Scot<br />
Indermuehle of Sudbury Design Group, rather than serving<br />
as destinations within the grounds that pull the family away.<br />
Each vista relates back to the whole yet has its own integrity<br />
and virtuosity. In fact, shares Nick O’Hara, owner of O’Hara &<br />
Company, it was the “beautiful mixture of sand-molded brick,<br />
domestic granite and New England fieldstone,” specified<br />
by the architect and landscape architect that attracted him<br />
to the project. O’Hara’s masonry is knitted throughout the<br />
interior and exterior of the home, etched within the exposed<br />
brick, chimneys, fireplaces and outdoor spaces, and he<br />
relished the interplay of mediums.<br />
As a foil to the patterning of the hardscapes, the terrain,<br />
comprised mainly of ground cover and ornamental trees,<br />
takes a less-is-more approach. President Michael Coutu of<br />
Sudbury Design Group was thrilled that the team was able<br />
to “maintain the rolling character of the property,” creating<br />
an overall effect of relaxed grace. To achieve that end,<br />
landscape contractor The Schumacher Companies stitched<br />
the naturalized area of the wetland in with the cultivated lawn<br />
and plantings. Like an embrace, the landscape is nestled in<br />
snugly to the architecture in a way that allows the house to<br />
shine as brightly as its inhabitants.<br />
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Interior<br />
Design<br />
As tastemakers, interior designers translate our<br />
moods, affinities and lifestyles into meaningful,<br />
multilayered settings. From materials, fixtures<br />
and finishes to wall coverings, furnishings and<br />
accessories, designers consider the full effect<br />
as they curate each element.<br />
Courtesy of Kotzen Interiors, LLP<br />
Photography by Sam Gray<br />
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HOME<br />
PATTERN<br />
TEXTURE<br />
IMAGINATION<br />
MODERN<br />
COLOR<br />
FRESH<br />
ENDURING<br />
INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
DRAMATIC<br />
TRADITIONAL<br />
UNEXPECTED<br />
CRAFT<br />
JOY<br />
Photography - Clockwise From Top Left:<br />
Sean Litchfield, Greg Premru, Greg Premru,<br />
Greg Premru, Sean Litchfield, Greg Premru.
CAMBRIDGE | CAPE & ISLANDS<br />
617 621-1455<br />
www.LDa-Architects.com
KOTZEN INTERIORS, LLP<br />
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN<br />
WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
P 781.235.1740 | WWW.KOTZENINTERIORS.COM
Beauty in the Details<br />
ONE-OF-A-KIND APPLICATIONS REIGN AT HEATHER VAUGHAN INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
By Andrea Mingels<br />
Heather Vaughan Interior Design’s ability to envision and craft one-of-a-kind pieces is bespoke design. Principal Heather<br />
Vaughan works synergistically to create detailed design solutions that involve the custom creation of fabric, furniture or<br />
built-ins using finishes or colors that are suited to the client’s home. Vaughan creates personalized pieces that are current,<br />
unique and timeless. She explains, “We are always looking for the new, now, next.”<br />
1.<br />
1. Vaughan can transform the most mundane item into<br />
something extraordinary. In a previously white kitchen,<br />
she designed a colorful backsplash made of hand glazed<br />
Moroccan tiles. Vaughan incorporated 16 shades found<br />
within the client’s house to create a beautifully bold and<br />
visually interesting result.<br />
2. When designing a kitchen banquette, Vaughan mixed<br />
the traditional C-shape with a contemporary Missoni fabric<br />
and offset the assertive design with a soft, custom, linenwrapped<br />
table. “Interior design is all a balancing act,” she<br />
explains, referencing the vibrant seating area.<br />
3. Vaughan teamed up with a thirteen-year-old client to<br />
co-create a fresh and fabulous bedroom. For this personal<br />
retreat, Vaughan designed a versatile, headlining piece<br />
that will mature with her client: an upholstered bed frame<br />
wrapped in a pearlized vinyl and detailed with an aged<br />
Ann Sacks mirror. By simply exchanging the comforter or<br />
throw pillows, the bed can instantly transform from that of<br />
a teenager to an adult’s.<br />
The true magic of a collaboration sparks when trust is<br />
formed between the designer and client. Says Vaughan,<br />
“When you have the client’s best interest at heart, and they<br />
know that, beautiful things happen.”<br />
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Photography by Jared Kuzia<br />
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THE EXPERIENCE STUDIO<br />
430 Main Street<br />
Watertown, MA 02472<br />
617.741.3131 | interiology.com
Designer Digs<br />
INSIDE INTERIOLOGY DESIGN CO.’S EXPERIENCE<br />
STUDIO WITH MARK HADDAD<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
When we asked to profile<br />
Certified Master Kitchen and Bath<br />
Designer (CMKBD) Mark Haddad<br />
in his element, he naturally chose<br />
Interiology Design Co.’s Experience<br />
Studio in Watertown as the setting.<br />
The owner and his team work amid<br />
the studio’s curated, comprehensive<br />
displays, a space brimming with<br />
design solutions for the whole home<br />
as well as one-of-kind accessories,<br />
upholstery, art and case goods.<br />
Interiology Design Co.’s impressive<br />
kitchen installations illuminate<br />
Haddad’s 19-year depth of<br />
knowledge and coveted CMKBD<br />
level of certification, which requires<br />
accredited instruction and ongoing<br />
education. From the fully operational<br />
Gourmet Kitchen (top), with its walnut<br />
island, motorized cabinetry and<br />
custom storage, to the contemporary<br />
Coffee Kitchen (below) with its<br />
Noisette cabinetry by Composit,<br />
it is clear the studio is a winning<br />
resource for homeowners and trade<br />
professionals alike.<br />
Aside from the sexier considerations<br />
like aesthetics, kitchen design<br />
requires a thorough grasp of<br />
plumbing, electrical and structural<br />
aspects. “Designing a new kitchen<br />
is one of the most important<br />
investments you will make in your<br />
home,” offers Haddad. “An NKBA<br />
(National Kitchen & Bath Association)<br />
certified designer can help guide you<br />
through the process.”<br />
Start your journey at The Experience<br />
Studio at 430 Main St. in Watertown<br />
or online at interiology.com.<br />
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DARING IN DESIGN<br />
WITH ERIC HAYDEL DESIGN, YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS NOW.<br />
Michael J. Lee Photography<br />
Interior designer Eric Haydel, principal of Eric Haydel Design<br />
and owner of the Eric Haydel Showroom at the Boston<br />
Design Center, wants to know what you’re comfortable with.<br />
That way, he can “push you towards the uncomfortable,” he<br />
says, and you’re going to love it. It’s not that he won’t listen.<br />
Quite the contrary. In fact, he believes that when working<br />
with a designer your voice should be heard loudest of all.<br />
It often surprises clients to learn that he doesn’t have to like<br />
a design element or the look he weaves for them. “It isn’t<br />
about me,” he contends. “It’s about pulling out the best of<br />
the client and showing them what they can have. That’s what<br />
the experience is about.”<br />
If you’re open to the process, and the discovery of it, that<br />
place of initial unease can be shaped into bold, buoyant<br />
and vital living spaces full of pattern, color, texture and<br />
pieces that resonate with you. “From a design perspective,<br />
it’s about the moments we create, and the story we tell<br />
together,” says Haydel. “Your home is a reflection of who<br />
you are and where you want to go.”<br />
To script that narrative, Haydel uses a three-component<br />
design approach. He first encourages clients to think twodimensionally,<br />
assessing the way the space moves and how<br />
you move within it. Next, he explores the third dimension—<br />
how you view the space and how you want to see it. The<br />
final, fourth dimension is how you experience and engage<br />
with that space, and how you live with it daily. “If you don’t<br />
think about that fourth dimension, you’ve totally missed the<br />
mark, and you’ll be unhappy with the result.”<br />
Haydel works with clients to find the joy in their home,<br />
creating layers that lift them up and incorporating heirloom<br />
quality furnishings and finishes with stories of their own. “If<br />
you’re in a space that feels fantastic, it’s a game changer,”<br />
maintains Haydel. “And it will be going forward.”<br />
Visit erichaydel.com to tell your story.<br />
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Michael J. Lee Photography<br />
ERIC HAYDEL DESIGN<br />
BOSTON - NEW ORLEANS<br />
WWW.ERICHAYDEL.COM<br />
GATHER ’ROUND...<br />
Where life’s most important moments unfold.
BETSY BASSETT<br />
INTERIORS<br />
Newton, MA www.betsybassettinteriors.com 617.332.8072
Luxury<br />
LAYERED FOR<br />
Betsy Bassett Interiors refashions an elegant master<br />
bedroom suite—from the forms to the finishes.<br />
Betsy Bassett Interiors has a hand in every aspect of a<br />
home’s interior space—from the interior architectural<br />
details and furnishings to the finishing touches. While<br />
renovating an outdated bedroom, Principal Betsy Bassett<br />
designed custom cabinetry, specified trim details and<br />
worked directly with artists to develop custom wall<br />
coverings and one-of-a-kind furniture to ensure a perfectly<br />
personalized master suite.<br />
Bassett creates layers of luxury in each space she designs.<br />
Here, Bassett transforms a Pepto Bismol-pink bathroom<br />
into an elegant, spa-like retreat. While the gorgeous<br />
freestanding soaking tub is the room’s focal point, it is the<br />
details that allow this master bath to shine. The wallpaper<br />
was custom colored for this project and made from<br />
mother-of-pearl, which gives the room a stunning shimmer<br />
in the morning light.<br />
All the furnishings were tailored for the client. Bassett<br />
customized a beautiful two-toned desk expressly for<br />
the space. An ivory velvet desk chair serves as the ideal<br />
companion; the designer embellished its upholstery with a<br />
Greek key pattern nailhead detail for added dimension.<br />
The closet was designed with the client’s impressive shoe<br />
collection and wardrobe in mind. The custom cabinetry<br />
is lined with interior lights and painted a metallic taupe<br />
glaze, and the sheen of the leopard print wallpaper with<br />
vertical stripes adds glamour. To create the client’s dream<br />
closet, Bassett had to find the perfect balance of sparkle<br />
and sophistication. She explains, “my design strategy is<br />
to layer beautiful fabrics and high-end materials but also<br />
to know when to stop. I want to create luxury and calm; a<br />
bedroom suite should be a place of peace.”<br />
To learn more, visit betsybassettinteriors.com.<br />
Written by Andrea Mingels; Photography: Michael J. Lee<br />
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FIVE TIPS FROM AN<br />
INTERIOR DESIGN LEGEND<br />
W I T H A N T H O N Y C A T A L F A N O<br />
A tastemaker through and through, interior designer Anthony Catalfano of<br />
Anthony Catalfano Interiors and Anthony Catalfano Home in Wells, Maine,<br />
has fashioned seaside estates, penthouse suites, garden pavilions and car<br />
salons, and has conceived stunning, multilayered interiors not only here in<br />
New England, but out west and down south, as well. He is also the author<br />
of the ultimate coffee-table book Anthony Catalfano Embellished Spaces.<br />
Clients who work with Catalfano know that he has no shortage of inspired<br />
ideas and fabulous design solutions up his cuff-linked sleeve. From<br />
architectural details and woodwork to fabrics, furnishings and accessories,<br />
the creative well he draws from is seemingly endless. And, while he<br />
considers each client, project and/or home individually, he is happy to<br />
share a few universal design truths we can all follow....<br />
Notice the special. After years of minimalism and eliminating everything,<br />
collections are coming back.<br />
Invest in art. Something can be priceless or the work of an up-and-comer.<br />
Buy things that are classic and timeless. If you don’t have an art collection,<br />
develop one. I’m happy to walk my clients through it; I want people to<br />
learn and get the things that look beautiful for them and pleasing for them.<br />
Don’t fear color. People are ready for color; they’ve been living in a<br />
neutral world for so long. Happy yet elegant hues like soft violet, offset<br />
by deeper tones of charcoal gray and taupe, can be a year-round palette.<br />
Splashes of color, like persimmon for throw pillows and consoles or sexy<br />
Ferrari reds, are bold and bright ways to invigorate living spaces.<br />
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Change things up. Instead of putting the dishes in a cabinet,<br />
use them. I once did a Nantucket project where I plastered a lot<br />
of my grandmother’s crazy dishes—they had reticulated edges<br />
and depictions of fruit—on the wall alongside a fabric that had<br />
hand-painted fruits and flowers. The dishes weren’t fabulously<br />
expensive, but they looked like a million bucks when it was done.<br />
Left page: (Top) Chuck Choi; Marcus Gleysteen; (Bottom) Jeffrey<br />
Stevensen; Right page: (Left) Chuck Choi; (Right & Bottom)<br />
Warren Patterson<br />
Set your own trend. Use simple things and recreate them—<br />
whether it’s taking something that is so simple and adding a twist<br />
or making it look like something unbelievable.<br />
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CARTER & COMPANY<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
MCARTERANDCO.COM | 617.227.5343
&<br />
A dynamic unit in One Dalton, Boston’s<br />
chicest new address, and its antithesis—<br />
a New Hampshire lodge where time stands<br />
still—reveal the artistic range and talent of<br />
interior designer Michael Carter.<br />
Town<br />
Country<br />
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“What makes<br />
The Lodge so<br />
special is that it<br />
encapsulates a<br />
time and place<br />
gone by.”<br />
Carter’s New Hampshire living space is rife with things that<br />
speak to his past and bring him joy—from heirloom antiques to<br />
his collections of vintage rolling pins and yellowware (Carter’s<br />
ardor predates Martha Stewart’s). Right: The staff at Carter<br />
& Company raise a glass to one another and enjoy a leisurely<br />
luncheon in The Lodge.<br />
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At Carter & Company, “our job is to create environment,” says Principal Michael Carter<br />
slowly, in his honeyed North Carolina drawl. It goes beyond imagining beautiful spaces<br />
with pretty things. It’s more about conjuring a feeling and a palpable sense of place.<br />
Whether recreating a turn-of-the-century, “horse and<br />
buggy” era camp on a picturesque mountaintop in New<br />
Hampshire for himself and his husband, David Rousseau,<br />
or injecting character within the sparkling, sculptural allglass<br />
canvas that is One Dalton, Carter’s designs, above all<br />
things, are meant to resonate with the client. It is for this<br />
reason that Carter and his team can operate—and soar—<br />
in two very different universes, conceiving meaningful,<br />
soulful living spaces for settings that fall on opposite ends<br />
of the interior design spectrum.<br />
“No one will ever accuse Carter & Company of being a<br />
one-trick pony,” he says with a certain sense of pride. And<br />
though the interior designer’s roots are grounded in the<br />
traditional, Carter & Company’s aesthetic is fluid, receptive<br />
and ultimately a reflection of the client. Carter takes cues<br />
from personal interests and life stories, and “edits and<br />
interprets” the client’s opportunity for expression.<br />
The Lodge, Carter’s country escape that he has lovingly<br />
restored since purchasing it in 2001, mirrors facets of his<br />
own makeup—his passion for preservation and history,<br />
and for antiques—a trait he inherited from a favorite aunt.<br />
When he was first introduced to the “wreck of a property,”<br />
a cluster of lakeside buildings comprising an old summer<br />
camp and former “party house” high on a hilltop and<br />
far from the prying eyes of the Prohibition, and, later, a<br />
summer camp, he was enchanted by its log walls and<br />
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“In many ways,<br />
this property is<br />
about leaving things<br />
alone that should be<br />
allowed to be old<br />
and have patina.”<br />
From horse-drawn carriage rides to taking a moment of pause—<br />
and a breath—on the porch, there is a slower pace to life at The<br />
Lodge. Right: In the main room, Carter “didn’t touch a thing,” he<br />
says, due to the planed fir logs (many with the bark still on), and<br />
the extraordinary hearth. As he moved beyond that space, there<br />
was a lot of artistic freedom.<br />
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eams, ironwork and stone fireplace. Says Carter, “I feel<br />
like this property has soul.” So, after pouring his time and<br />
talent into a series of renovations, including reorienting<br />
the house to frame water views, and creating a two-story<br />
drop in the heart of the home, The Lodge has become the<br />
place where he and Rousseau, their dogs, horses, friends<br />
and family can disconnect, recharge and entertain.<br />
“What makes this house so special is that it encapsulates a<br />
time and place gone by,” he offers. For a few years it had<br />
no indoor plumbing, and it still has no TV (“we’ve never<br />
missed it,” says Carter) or cell-phone service. What it does<br />
have is an “intangible,” muses Carter; a hard-to-pin-down<br />
air “that, once you’re there, you can sense and smell.”<br />
How, then, did he go about selecting very real items—<br />
furnishings, finishes, art, accessories—that further this<br />
mystique? “You use the edit button,” answers Carter, to<br />
accentuate the wood, stone and ironwork that give the<br />
structure its charm, and fill the home with one-of-a-kind<br />
pieces with meaning—antiques passed down by his aunt,<br />
furnishings his uncle crafted by hand, items repurposed<br />
from the general stores of yesteryear, finds from the<br />
Brimfield Fair. “Items that have a certain soul,” says Carter,<br />
to say nothing of ingenuity. The designer had great fun<br />
“using interesting things in an atypical way.” In the kitchen,<br />
an old-fashioned meat scale, weighed down by sacks of<br />
flour, finds new life as a chandelier, while an old piano leg<br />
turned upside down becomes a lamp for the living room.<br />
The grounds beyond The Lodge’s rustic walls are as<br />
essential to the spirit of the home as its interiors. As<br />
much as the setting is “back to basics,” it is also “back<br />
to nature,” shares Carter. He and his guests enjoy<br />
vintage canoe rides, horse-drawn carriage rides and<br />
simple pleasures like sitting in one of the many rocking<br />
chairs on the oversized porch, sangria in hand. True to<br />
its provenance, in a way The Lodge is still a party house,<br />
laughs Carter. “It’s a ball,” he says, “made for celebrating,<br />
family reunions, gatherings and holidays.”<br />
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The living room’s walnut fireplace wall, built by Saltsman Brenzel and finished by Wayne Towle Master<br />
Finishing & Restoration, contrasts with the subdued color palette. Phillip Jeffries wallcoverings, applied<br />
by Paul J. Beath, were used throughout the home for texture and to soften the space. The sense of<br />
serenity is a foil to the city’s vitality; “You really can connect to Boston at this level,” says Carter. Right: A<br />
breathtaking chandelier by Donghia and bespoke John Boone burled table wow in the front entry hall.<br />
While The Lodge is about time gone by and savoring<br />
moments with friends and family, a unit at One Dalton,<br />
Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, conceived<br />
by Carter & Company for empty nesters, is about daring<br />
greatly. “It is bold of them,” underscores Carter, his<br />
admiration for his clients clear. “This is definitely their big<br />
moment,” he says. “They have left suburbia to go literally<br />
up to the sky,” inhabiting an instantly iconic building,<br />
which, designed by famed architect Henry N. Cobb, is, in<br />
Carter’s estimation, the chicest in the city.<br />
“It is a serious fresh start,” Carter continues, and<br />
a renaissance that is centered on expression over<br />
functionality. The owners are bringing precious few<br />
possessions from their previous residence, which was<br />
traditional in nature; cutting their square footage<br />
considerably; and making a sleek and sinuous unit with<br />
spectacular views home. The new setting is triangular with<br />
rounded ends and walls of curving glass. “It’s like being in<br />
the nose of an airplane,” says Carter. “It is floor to ceiling<br />
glass all the way around.”<br />
How do you appoint such a leap of faith? If you’re Carter,<br />
you look to the architecture of the building itself, which<br />
is wildly inventive and features “modern and timeless<br />
bones,” and set out to fully understand the clients and<br />
what will resonate with them. As One Dalton is, in essence,<br />
“a three-sided piece of sculpture,” Carter expanded that<br />
concept indoors. “We thought of everything in this whole<br />
unit as an expression of sculpture,” he explains. With<br />
its art, sculpture, color and texture, “it’s like being in a<br />
personalized art gallery.”<br />
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This urban home is dripping with luxury<br />
and courage in equal measure.<br />
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Carter & Company crafted a confection of a home office for<br />
the woman of the house, complete with lacquered painting<br />
by Stephen Barton Painting, a slender desk overlooking the<br />
city, meaningful accents and art, and custom soft furnishings<br />
appointed by Eliot Wright Workroom.<br />
The modern art selections, chosen in collaboration with<br />
the clients’ daughter, who is an art entrepreneur and has<br />
the benefit of knowing the clients better than anyone<br />
else, give the unit much of the soul Carter was after. “The<br />
space is begging—I mean, it won’t even work—unless<br />
you have wonderful art in it,” says Carter, so the team<br />
animated the space with modern art from Boston galleries,<br />
such as Lanoue Gallery and Beacon Gallery, and included<br />
showstopping pieces like Jeremy Holms’ infinite wood<br />
ribbon installation in the living room and an exuberant<br />
turquoise abstract by Aja Johnson in the office above.<br />
For the lighting, finishes and furnishings, the homeowners<br />
joined Carter for a day in New York, scouring the wares of<br />
two design centers. A pair of bespoke semicircular sofas,<br />
a custom burled wood John Boone table, and a dazzling<br />
light fixture comprised of 90 glass dewdrops suspended by<br />
barely-there cables were among the selections. That day<br />
made a world of difference. Says Carter, “because you’re<br />
in this glass bubble, everything has to be special.”<br />
Overall, the home’s aesthetic has a sense of luxury that<br />
is derived from nature. Quartz sconces, rich woods and<br />
even geode accessories speak to the clients’ spiritual side<br />
and mindfulness. Though it would have been easy to go<br />
with the cool grays that are so pervasive at the moment,<br />
instead, the client embraced warmer tones, beautiful<br />
bisques, shimmering topaz hues, both smoky and blue,<br />
that coalesce into an inviting, zen-like cocoon. This is,<br />
after all, their space, their moment. So while The Lodge is<br />
intended to be a “simpler, non-digital escape” and a<br />
time capsule, “One Dalton is about embracing now as<br />
hard as you can,” says Carter. It’s not afraid of it. “It’s<br />
celebrating now.”<br />
Text: Sandy Giardi<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
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E L Z A B. D E S I G N, I N C.<br />
JARED KUZIA PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
781-859-7817 BARBARA ELZA HIRSCH CONCORD, MA ELZABDESIGN.COM<br />
info@judyleedesign.com<br />
judyleedesign.com . 617.312.4617<br />
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Custom<br />
Kitchens,<br />
Baths &<br />
Appliances<br />
As the most popular room of the home,<br />
your dream kitchen requires a thoughtful<br />
design that’s as functional as it is beautiful.<br />
The master bath, however, can be your<br />
own sanctuary, cultivated for relaxation<br />
and rejuvenation.<br />
Courtesy of Splash; Katie Rosenfeld Design<br />
Photography by Nat Rea<br />
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Top: RootCellar’s automatic door<br />
allows owners to go in and out with<br />
their hands full. The fully concealed<br />
refrigerated pantry is ideally<br />
positioned near the kitchen or garage<br />
entry and is an option for both new<br />
constructions and remodels.<br />
Bottom (left to right): Founders<br />
Don Lake and Paul DeLorenzo.<br />
RootCellar refrigerated pantries eliminate the “food graveyard” that often befalls standard<br />
refrigerators, eliminating waste and keeping ingredients organized and at eye view. No two<br />
RootCellars are the same. This custom design was created for newlyweds who love to entertain,<br />
and is inlaid with marble to match the kitchen counters; all have restaurant-grade glass.<br />
Measuring at 400 cubic feet, this RootCellar easily contains weekly grocery items, as well as<br />
platters for entertaining, fresh florals, kegs or cases of beer, chilled wine, bushels of shellfish—<br />
even a Thanksgiving turkey. If the residents don’t have time to put away their farm share or food<br />
delivery, they can simply place the parcels within it until they do. RootCellars can be configured<br />
with camera apps to allow owners to view its shelves from the store.<br />
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Refrigeration Redefined.<br />
RootCellar ® refrigerated pantries bring<br />
a cool change to kitchens.<br />
RootCellar Concepts has unveiled a breakthrough<br />
new product for fine homes that may just change your<br />
approach to grocery shopping, food organization and<br />
refrigeration. The company has introduced a premier,<br />
fully customizable refrigerated pantry and freezer that<br />
can replace the refrigeration in your kitchen, and fit in<br />
seamlessly within your design.<br />
The concept is the brainchild of Paul DeLorenzo,<br />
who has been in the food and beverage industry for<br />
decades, and Don Lake, a serial startup entrepreneur.<br />
DeLorenzo, who knows how essential “walk-ins” are to<br />
restaurants, wanted something similar in his own home.<br />
Lake latched onto the idea, envisioning the virtues of<br />
a walk-in closet for the kitchen. It is the kind of Aha!<br />
moment that is met with a resounding “Of course!”<br />
and “Brilliant!” by everyone who learns of it. “When<br />
you think about it,” explains Lake, “refrigeration hasn’t<br />
changed much in 100 years.” Families live in their<br />
kitchens today; a RootCellar pantry supports modern<br />
lifestyles, answering the universal need for more<br />
storage, freeing up space and revolutionizing the way<br />
people shop for and organize their perishables.<br />
Design development—quieting the evaporator,<br />
maximizing efficiency, wiring the lighting and hands-free<br />
door system, and refining the clean-lined aesthetic—<br />
took time to perfect. The result, however, is game<br />
changing for main residences and second homes, as<br />
you can stock the RootCellar at the outset of the high<br />
season to ensure you’re guest-ready. The investment is<br />
on par with what homeowners might spend on a top-tier<br />
refrigerator, drawers, freezer column and a wine cooler.<br />
“Yet you still wouldn’t have one-third the volume of a<br />
RootCellar,” reveals DeLorenzo, “or the convenience.”<br />
To learn more, visit rootcellarconcepts.com.<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
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Boston Artists Reimagine<br />
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The<br />
WONDER<br />
YEARS<br />
A spirited new construction was<br />
designed with the kids in mind.<br />
Ten days before a scheduled trip to Hawaii for a spring vacation,<br />
an athletic young family moved in to a custom new dream house<br />
surrounded by woodland. Just as the residence began to feel<br />
like home, the COVID-19 crisis struck, trip plans were cancelled,<br />
and the family, like those everywhere, was suddenly housebound. The<br />
build was fortuitous, as the all-American Colonial Revival—designed by<br />
Catalano Architects and constructed by KVC Builders—was conceived as a<br />
personal resort, filled with features sure to thrill, interest and entertain the<br />
family’s four children during the prized, pre-college years when they are all<br />
under one roof. The home is so spectacular, in fact, that it served as a fine<br />
fill-in for the Aloha State.<br />
When the owners met with architect Tom Catalano and landscape<br />
architects Scot Indermuehle and Michael Coutu of Sudbury Design<br />
Group to realize their ideal property, plans were drawn detailing an epic<br />
sports barn with a climbing wall, an outdoor pool pavilion and a sunbathed<br />
natatorium with a healthy outdoor connection. At the time, the<br />
clients couldn’t have known just how key the self-contained recreational<br />
compound would come to be.<br />
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For the home’s orientation,<br />
the architects and landscape<br />
architects carved out space<br />
within the woods to get as<br />
much sun into the house as<br />
possible.<br />
Fine Finish, Inc. completed<br />
the home’s rich exterior<br />
and interior millwork—<br />
from the vaulted windows<br />
integrated into the roof for<br />
the master suite to the pine<br />
of the natatorium, which<br />
camouflages the piping and<br />
resists humidity.<br />
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The program was not only forward-thinking, it was<br />
ambitious, explains Principal Tom Catalano of Catalano<br />
Architects, and a merry, magnificent mix of form, function<br />
and fun—all with equal weight. Catalano rewarded<br />
the homeowners’ taste for traditional New England<br />
architecture and an appreciation for context with a<br />
luminous home oriented to take full advantage of the sun<br />
with “discreet but connected elements” that downplay its<br />
majesty—and its amenities.<br />
“It isn’t every day that you design to accommodate an<br />
indoor pool,” offers Catalano, and his firm was careful to<br />
ensure that the architectural element of the natatorium<br />
didn’t overwhelm the rest of the house. To give it<br />
supporting-role status rather than the spotlight, the team<br />
pressed that wing into the site’s topography, and opened<br />
it up to the landscape via palatial glass doors. A Wasco<br />
skylight drenches the space in sunshine, providing an<br />
outlook to the treetops and clouds lazing overhead, while<br />
a granite compass, just off the bluestone terrace and<br />
etched with meaning, points back to the heart of the main<br />
home: the family’s true north.<br />
Project Manager Jackson Mello of KVC Builders, who was<br />
involved from start to finish and interacted daily with the<br />
team executing, explains: “The pool was a must. It was<br />
important to the homeowners for the kids to stay busy and<br />
active year-round, and swimming is part of their activities.”<br />
The building was designed to be a winter oasis and outlet<br />
during inclement weather and includes a sauna, home<br />
gym, swim jets and a spa for post-workout soaks. In the<br />
summer, the natatorium is a closer-to-home alternative<br />
to the sports barn; the family can open the lift-and-slide<br />
doors to the fresh air and spread out to the patio.<br />
When they’re not swimming, the resident athletes<br />
are often running the third-of-a-mile track, designed<br />
and crafted by Sudbury Design Group, that orbits the<br />
perimeter of the property. Comprised of gravel with<br />
a stone-dust finish, the informal course helps define<br />
the developed lawn and gardens from the woodland<br />
surrounding the site and the more public conservation<br />
land beyond that. The track frequently sees the spirit of<br />
competition. Landscape architect Scot Indermuehle of<br />
Sudbury Design Group shares, “They bike on it; they jog<br />
on it; and they have races and timed trials.”<br />
A sandbox, framed by boulders, was a late but well-loved<br />
addition to the landscape. The youngest children, as well<br />
as the pup, can often be found settled in beneath the<br />
twin trees, contentedly scooping, sifting and molding<br />
the contents. To combat high ground water—the site’s<br />
greatest challenge, according to Sudbury Design Group<br />
President Michael Coutu—his firm and the civil engineer<br />
developed multiple rain gardens (in lieu of underground<br />
filtration systems) as a natural drainage design for storm<br />
water. This solution delighted the children. Mello, who has<br />
seen their glee firsthand, can attest: “When it rains, the<br />
rain gardens fill with water, and the kids run out to collect<br />
frogs and then bring them over to the sand pit. They have<br />
a lot of fun.”<br />
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Integrating the wood structure of the pool house with the metal of the sports barn was a highly technical part of the build, says Jackson<br />
Mello, as the two have to be independent of each other. The homeowner, who is very tech-savvy and “almost a co-designer,” says System<br />
7 President Gerard Lynch, can control both pools—as well as lighting, shading and climate—from the watch on his arm. Right: The stacked<br />
stone of the great room fireplace in the pool house is repeated within the waterfall of the pool.<br />
Deeper into the property, an outdoor pool, pool-house<br />
pavilion and sports barn provide additional opportunities<br />
for leisure, recreation and organized games. In yet another<br />
prescient move, the homeowners viewed this complex as<br />
a destination, a getaway within the grounds, so to speak.<br />
“They wanted it to be experientially different from the house<br />
and to be removed,” says Catalano, “so that when they go<br />
there, it is a special event.”<br />
The sports barn, the size of a full tennis court, is sunken<br />
deep within the hillside, and virtually undetectable from the<br />
main home. Instead, the view is a curated slice of paradise,<br />
comprised of the one-story pool house, the turquoise pool<br />
and spa, and a porcelain terrace that is kind to bare feet.<br />
“Getting the whole package to step up the hill properly was<br />
integral to the design,” says Indermuehle. “You don’t realize<br />
there is a whole barn down behind it.”<br />
Once inside the sports barn, however, one can’t help but<br />
take notice. KVC, which is known for tackling some of the<br />
region’s most sophisticated construction projects, has yet to<br />
do a gym with this degree of flexibility. The parents wanted<br />
the kids and their friends to be able to do “anything and<br />
everything they’d like to do year-round,”says Mello, so<br />
the arena houses a full basketball court, volleyball court,<br />
batting cage and a rock wall that trains the kids to aim high.<br />
The latter was a tag-team effort between Fine Finish, Inc.,<br />
KVC Builders and the owner, and a homegrown solution<br />
suggested by Peter Murray, owner of Fine Finish, who noted<br />
that he could build a climbing wall, from structure to finish<br />
to fascia, for one-fourth of the cost of similar setups. The<br />
homeowner, who is hands-on, arranged the footholds of the<br />
construct prior to KVC’s installation.<br />
System 7, the technology design company that configured<br />
the unified, user-friendly subsystems that span the full<br />
property, ramped up the energy and excitement level in the<br />
sports barn higher still. Thanks to a crowd-pleasing music<br />
system and speakers customized for the gym, music fills the<br />
voluminous space when the kids push play.<br />
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“It’s summer camp in every way.<br />
The kids love it. The parents love it.”<br />
–Scot Indermuehle<br />
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The statement stairway, a Catalano staple, can be viewed through the window when<br />
approaching the home. Fine Finish keeps the lines of the poplar boards and profiles<br />
sharp by running them through his machines at a slower pace than mass production<br />
millshops do. The talented painters that KVC brought in—Joseph Bruno Painting and<br />
RPM Painting—played a huge part in bringing out the beauty of the surfaces, says Murray.<br />
“At its heart, this is a quintessential American house<br />
with sunlit spaces that are simple and playful.”<br />
–Tom Catalano<br />
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When the family, eventually, is compelled to come inside,<br />
they are greeted by a friendly, resplendent home that<br />
shares the youthful vitality of the inhabitants. The spaces<br />
are transitional in style, and laden with clean-lined millwork<br />
that delivers crisp lines and plenty of visual interest.<br />
Murray, who has worked with Catalano Architects for years,<br />
couldn’t be happier that the architect has a penchant for<br />
“heavy millwork and a lot of border,” he says. Catalano’s<br />
inclination kept the Fine Finish team on site for months,<br />
paneling paint-grade poplar in the foyer, stairhall and<br />
octagonal eating nook, crafting custom cabinetry in the<br />
kitchen to be painted an upbeat bright blue and creating<br />
the casually elegant ceiling of rift sawn white oak, finished<br />
by Wayne Towle Master Finishing and Restoration, that<br />
stretches from the kitchen into the family room.<br />
Even with its careful architectural detailing and<br />
craftsmanship, “the home is pretty informal on the inside,”<br />
maintains Catalano. “It is elegantly simple.” In essence, it<br />
is an approachable, charismatic house with a humility that<br />
is every bit as impressive as its square footage.<br />
And, while the home does bear the distinction of being the<br />
largest interior that designer Katie Rosenfeld, principal and<br />
owner of Katie Rosenfeld and Company, has worked on to<br />
date, she shares Catalano’s sentiments. “Even though the<br />
structure of the house is large, it doesn’t feel intimidating<br />
or formal,” she says. “I feel like it’s a small house living in a<br />
big house,” one with “a very classy, tasteful Silicon Valley<br />
or Apple” kind of vibe designed for the East Coast.<br />
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As Rosenfeld had a lot of ground to cover and the home<br />
is young yet, the interiors are a work in progress, and she<br />
is working closely with the residents to layer the lively<br />
spaces. Still, seeing the home come together after so<br />
much planning is exciting, she says, and her backdrop—a<br />
colorful canvas using “a lot of fabric, a lot of wallpaper,<br />
pattern and texture” and a dynamic palette of blues,<br />
green, coral and yellow—is a vital springboard for the<br />
meaningful art and accents that will unfold over time.<br />
In conceiving the spaces, “fun” was the operative word and<br />
the focus was the children. The homeowners would say:<br />
“We want them to have fun, and we want it to look fun,”<br />
says Rosenfeld, and she took that directive to heart. Each<br />
room, therefore, became an adventure, from the creative<br />
home office to the theme of each child’s room to the<br />
upstairs library nook, with its floor-to-ceiling bookshelves,<br />
rolling ladder and shapely armchairs. “There is a lot of<br />
learning that goes on in this house,” says Rosenfeld. “The<br />
people here are really thoughtful and bright, and they<br />
wanted a space for the kids to sit down and read.”<br />
Organization and a specific set of requirements also<br />
drove the design. In fact, at the outset of the project, the<br />
homeowner provided Catalano with a brief outlining a day<br />
in the life of the family. His thorough objectives are woven<br />
throughout the home, yet perhaps best showcased in the<br />
mudroom, with its high and low cabinetry, partitions and<br />
sock drawers, and in the butler’s pantry, a knockout space<br />
in glossy royal blue that is as functional as it is fanciful,<br />
and “can bend and flex,” says Rosenfeld, to serve as an<br />
extension of the kitchen or as a bar.<br />
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The kids’ library is<br />
cerused rift sawn white<br />
oak, crafted by Fine<br />
Finish and finished by<br />
Wayne Towle Master<br />
Finishing. The walls are<br />
covered in bright yellow<br />
grasscloth, and bold<br />
patterns of turquoise blue<br />
and green were used for<br />
the carpet and drapes.<br />
Left: The butler’s pantry is<br />
a “big surprise” between<br />
the kitchen and dining<br />
room, and is painted in a<br />
shade of royal blue (Fine<br />
Paints of Europe) in a<br />
high-gloss lacquer finish.<br />
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Architecture: Catalano Architects<br />
Construction: KVC Builders<br />
Landscape Architecture and Construction: Sudbury Design Group<br />
Interior Design: Katie Rosenfeld and Company<br />
Exterior and Interior Millwork: Fine Finish, Inc.<br />
Framing and Exterior Trim: Bailey & Smith Construction, LLC<br />
Custom Finishing: Wayne Towle Master Finishing and Restoration<br />
Home Networking, Lighting Control and AV: System 7<br />
Plumbing and HVAC: S&S Plumbing and Heating<br />
Electrician: M. DeRubeis Electric<br />
Indoor and Outdoor Pool: Environmental Pools<br />
Sports Barn: Barnes Building<br />
Photography: Nat Rea and Warren Patterson<br />
Text: Sandy Giardi<br />
The main house was designed as a traditional, center-entrance Colonial parti,<br />
with the rest of the architectural elements developed around that.<br />
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“The homeowner’s very specific requirements helped<br />
inform a successful design outcome,” offers Catalano, and<br />
they appreciated the firm’s ability to spin their functional<br />
criteria into timeless, outstanding architecture. Interested<br />
in exacting details, he pored over Project Architect Elena<br />
Stancheva’s drawings and gave feedback, and, together<br />
with his wife, assessed the project at both the micro and<br />
macro level. He worked with System 7 to devise a plan for<br />
a rock-solid network for wired and wireless technology built<br />
with everyday enjoyment and longevity in mind, and knew<br />
the names of every subcontractor and their company with<br />
the ease of KVC Builders’ site superintendents Brendan<br />
Gallagher and Liam Colleran. “He had his head in every<br />
detail here—all the way through,” says Mello, and the home<br />
is better for it.<br />
“They can take great pride in their involvement,” maintains<br />
Catalano, because the clients’ collective enthusiasm and<br />
careful consideration are reflected in the home. But the<br />
greatest reward of this house built for fun? “The kids<br />
couldn’t be happier,” says Mello. “They’ve used everything.”<br />
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Finishes,<br />
Doors &<br />
Windows<br />
These features are key players in home<br />
design and its aesthetic. Elements like millwork,<br />
flooring, stone and tile elevate a living space,<br />
bringing in beauty, texture and dimension.<br />
Windows and doors welcome in the outdoors,<br />
add architectural interest and frame<br />
showstopping views.<br />
Courtesy of Pella Corporation<br />
Photography by Warren Patterson<br />
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JH KLEIN WASSINK<br />
Custom Cabinetry & Fine Woodworking<br />
We fabricate, finish and install individual pieces or all the cabinetry, millwork and furniture<br />
for your entire home or business in a full range of styles from traditional to contemporary.
DESIGN • CRAFTSMANSHIP • TECHNOLOGY<br />
CONCORD, MA • 617.283.2416 • JHKW.COM
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
508-620-0775 | 93 Beaver Street, Framingham, MA 01702 | onyxgranite.com
Photography by Warren Patterson<br />
phone 978-469-0315<br />
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Beautiful<br />
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One-of-a-kind natural<br />
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LeaMar Industries is New England’s preeminent importer<br />
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Family owned and operated, the company’s roots span over<br />
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LeaMar Industries’ expansive showrooms feature unparalleled<br />
products that inspire creativity, and their experts provide<br />
exceptional customer service for both commercial and<br />
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PREMIUM ARCHITECTURAL MILLWORK SINCE 1948<br />
Architect: Jan Gleysteen Architects, Inc.<br />
Kolbe's various product lines can<br />
meet specific architectural and<br />
aesthetic goals. Careful design,<br />
quality craftsmanship, many<br />
aesthetic choices, and innovative solutions help Kolbe<br />
windows and doors bring your vision to life.<br />
WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR HOME,<br />
TRUST THE EXPERTS AT HORNER MILLWORK<br />
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Custom Fabrication<br />
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Import · Design · Manufacture · Install<br />
Framingham · Marlborough<br />
www.StoneIncUSA.com · (888) 909-STONE
Builder: C. Stumpo Development<br />
Pella Windows & Doors<br />
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Take a closer look today by visiting pellaofboston.com, or call (800)-866-9886
Photography by Greg Premru<br />
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solutions utilizing<br />
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products for discriminating<br />
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“As high gloss<br />
experts, we aim<br />
for excellence and<br />
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Interior Designer: Aimee Anderson Design<br />
Photographer: Sabrina Cole Quinn Photograhy
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THE LANGUAGE OF STONE<br />
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For over 37 years, our<br />
craftspeople have provided<br />
superior service and custom<br />
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BEFORE<br />
Daylight is powerful. It redesigns the look and feel of our home<br />
every hour of the day. It balances our Circadian rhythm, improves<br />
our general health and well-being, decreases our dependency on<br />
electricity, and gives functionality back to our space. We often ask,<br />
“Why skylights,” but with endless reasons why you should install a<br />
skylight the question becomes more, “Why not skylights?”<br />
For more information, explore the complete Velux line of Skylights,<br />
Roof Windows and Light Tunnels at www.veluxusa.com or contact<br />
your local authorized dealer:<br />
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Refresh<br />
SAME HOME.<br />
NEW LIFE.<br />
YOUR STYLE.<br />
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1-877-JBSASH1<br />
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BEFORE<br />
CommerCial and residential natural stone restoration<br />
Countertops, Bars, Baths, Floors, Foyers & more<br />
Bostonstonerestoration.Com<br />
AFTER<br />
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Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
Custom Milled Hardwood Floors and Millwork<br />
781 862-3559 | huntcustomwood.com
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Home<br />
Integration<br />
& Lighting<br />
Today’s smart homes are advanced yet<br />
user friendly. Controlled from the touch of a<br />
button, surveillance, lighting, shades, audio<br />
and visual media are custom configured to<br />
enhance and simplify daily life. Lighting may<br />
be the home’s most underrated element;<br />
directly and indirectly, it casts a mood,<br />
spotlights or defines a style.<br />
Courtesy of Systems Design Integration<br />
Photography by Warren Patterson<br />
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ELITEMEDIASOLUTIONS.COM<br />
Home Networking | Whole Home Automation<br />
Home Theater | Motorized Window Treatments<br />
Outdoor Audio | Surveillance Systems
781-237-2929 | 9 Forest Street | Wellesley Hills, MA
PROfile<br />
SHOWTIME!<br />
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For over 35 years, Creative Systems has provided the latest in integrated systems and<br />
expert installation. Homeowners no longer need to choose technology over style—today’s<br />
applications are seamless and smart. From hidden projectors to invisible screens, a room can<br />
be transformed in a matter of seconds.<br />
Specializing in luxury Boston high-rises as well<br />
as city and suburban residential homes<br />
Home Integration (Alexa & Google Home) • Audio (Sonos) and Video Systems<br />
(Latest 4K Technology) • Lighting Control (Lutron)<br />
Climate & Shade Control • Surveillance Wireless Networks<br />
Natick 508-655-2262 | Osterville 508-420-0918<br />
www.creativesys.com<br />
Photography: Gregg Shupe<br />
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Living Room Transformation<br />
Music<br />
Video<br />
Lighting<br />
Shading<br />
Communications<br />
Control<br />
Photos: Warren Patterson Photography<br />
At Cutting Edge Systems, we’ve been on the forefront of state-of-the-art technology systems<br />
in the home for over 25 years. Architectural audio and visual solutions are our specialty.<br />
How do we do it? In this elegant living room, we installed a JBL Synthesis surround sound system that is<br />
typically reserved for home theater rooms. A motorized, 120-inch Stewart screen concealed within the<br />
ceiling lowers to meet a powerful, custom designed speaker that rises from a custom cabinet hidden<br />
behind the couch. A projector, encased along the molding, casts images onscreen, while Lutron shades<br />
descend automatically and the lighting dims. We can equip any room to transform at the touch of a button.<br />
Cutting Edge Systems • 364 Littleton Rd. • Westford, MA 01886 • (978) 392-1392 • www.cuttingedgehome.com
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
These days, home theater systems are not<br />
solely about movies, says Evan Struhl, President<br />
and CEO of Cutting Edge Systems Corp.<br />
“You can watch TV or choose to become captivated<br />
by playing video games.” Along with streaming video,<br />
gaming has become an obsession among millennials, and,<br />
for the young residents of a beautiful new Beacon Hill<br />
townhome, it is undoubtedly “their hot spot.”<br />
They approached Cutting Edge Systems because they<br />
wanted a “killer system” in their posh, high design living<br />
room. The catch was that the impeccably tasteful space<br />
couldn’t look like a home theater; it needed to be a “living<br />
room without compromise,” says Struhl.<br />
At the touch of button, a custom speaker, designed and<br />
built by Cutting Edge Systems, rises from its hiding space<br />
behind the sofa to meet a motorized, 120-inch Stewart<br />
screen. A powerful subwoofer is housed in a hidden,<br />
custom built cabinet behind the couch. The projector fires<br />
up from across the room; Lutron shades lower to shut out<br />
the outside world and the lighting dims, casting a warm<br />
glow over the high-tech scene.<br />
The audio electronics by JBL Synthesis, says Struhl, “are<br />
the highest quality and usually reserved for dedicated<br />
home theater rooms.” Typically, you wouldn’t use such<br />
a grand system in a space like this, he continues, but his<br />
clients “wanted a lot of impact and excitement to come<br />
through.” Cutting Edge Systems was happy to comply,<br />
installing the motorized soundbar/subwoofer behind the<br />
couch and a fully calibrated surround sound system that is<br />
built in, invisibly.<br />
As important as it is, the gaming theater is just one<br />
component of a whole-home integration system. Cutting<br />
Edge Systems also configured music, using small aperture<br />
speakers that mimic the overhead lighting fixtures, video,<br />
Lutron Palladiom keypads, lighting and shades. All of the<br />
electronics, including an enterprise computer network with<br />
secure WiFi, is efficiently housed in an equipment rack that<br />
slides in and out of a custom closet.<br />
For more information, visit cuttingedgehome.com.<br />
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SMART HOME SECURITY:<br />
MOCKUPANCY, IP CAMERAS,<br />
SMART LOCKS AND MORE<br />
Safe and Sound<br />
“A lot of people think of TV and music<br />
when they think of Control4,” says<br />
Director of Sales & Development Dave<br />
Noland of Sounds Good. “The security<br />
side is overlooked.” The Waltham-based<br />
tech integrator is hoping to change that.<br />
Control4’s smart home capabilities go<br />
beyond the atmospheric, its systems also<br />
bring considerable peace of mind.<br />
Control4 safeguards properties in a number<br />
of ways, including its Mockupancy feature,<br />
which gives the illusion that someone<br />
is home. The feature simulates the<br />
homeowner’s routine—switching lights on<br />
and off, lowering shades, turning on music<br />
and the TV—thwarting mischief and wouldbe<br />
threats. Mockupancy is not unlike the<br />
movie Home Alone, laughs Noland. “Only<br />
you don’t need Kevin pulling the strings<br />
to make it look like people are dancing in<br />
the window.”<br />
Control4 also works with IP (internet protocol)<br />
cameras, a staple in today’s connected<br />
home, and a property’s security system on<br />
an interface that allows homeowners to arm,<br />
disarm and control the alarm system from<br />
their touchscreen. In the event of a “security<br />
event,” you can open the Control4 app, see<br />
the cameras, and, if needed, set an alarm or<br />
alert emergency services—from anywhere<br />
in the world.<br />
Smart Locks and door stations with cameras<br />
also keep residents safe. With smart locks,<br />
you can lock and unlock any connected door<br />
remotely, and set and control dedicated<br />
codes, like that of a child coming home from<br />
school or temporary ones for a worker who<br />
needs access. An alert is issued when the<br />
code is input, so you know all is as it should<br />
be. Conversely, via two-way communication<br />
with video and audio, if someone rings the<br />
doorbell you can see who it is and unlock<br />
the door remotely.<br />
These features and others—like water<br />
sensors and carbon monoxide and temperature<br />
alerts—are game changers for second<br />
homes and allow homeowners to rest easy<br />
with access both “inside and outside the<br />
home,” says Noland.<br />
Contact soundsgoodboston.com to design<br />
and service your Control4 home. control4.com.<br />
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Simplicity. Reliability. Aesthetics.<br />
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AVD
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4. Automatic Shades<br />
5. Lutron Lighting Control<br />
6. Home Automation<br />
Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
Enhance your lifestyle and<br />
have complete control with<br />
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Visit our Experience Center / Showroom at 34 Wexford Street, Needham, MA 02494<br />
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Builder: F.H. Perry; Architect: Payne Collins Design, Inc.; Interior Designer: Slifer Designs; Photographer: Jared Kuzia<br />
The F.H. Perry Builder team had a great experience working with Audio Video<br />
Design on this extensive project in Boston. It was a cooperative effort all around,<br />
with everyone focused on providing the best experience for the client. AVD, like<br />
F.H. Perry Builder, consistently brings their best – reliable and caring service – to<br />
every situation. That's why we like partnering with them on projects.<br />
– Allison Iantosca, President, F.H. Perry Builder.<br />
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Architecture: Duckham Architecture & Interiors<br />
Construction: S.J. Overstreet Construction Co., Inc.<br />
Interior Design: Thread by Lindsay Bentis<br />
Millwork and Cabinetry: Kochman Reidt + Haigh<br />
Cabinetmakers<br />
Landscape Architecture: SiteCreative Landscape<br />
Architecture<br />
Landscape Construction: Schumacher Companies<br />
Windows and Doors: Marvin<br />
Photography: Nat Rea<br />
Text: Sandy Giardi<br />
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A modern vacation home years in the<br />
making brings organic beauty beachside.<br />
It isn’t every day that a Cape Cod home on the ocean<br />
becomes available, says Lindsay Bentis, founder and<br />
principal of Thread by Lindsay Bentis. Such homes, with<br />
their sandy heirloom settings, remain in families for<br />
generations. After looking for such a property for years, and<br />
making memories with her family further inland, a longtime<br />
client of Bentis (her first, in fact) and Owner/Project<br />
Executive Steven Overstreet of S.J. Overstreet Construction<br />
Co., Inc. finally had the opportunity to purchase a home on<br />
the shores of the Atlantic. Patience had delivered paradise.<br />
The location was exactly what they had been looking for:<br />
a narrow stretch of land crowned by golden coastal vistas,<br />
which, hails Bentis, “are the most spectacular views of any<br />
house I’ve ever seen on the Cape.”<br />
Sun<br />
Salutation<br />
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“The home is modern in the most<br />
perfect way. It has clean lines but with<br />
materials that feel like they had a hand<br />
in them, like someone made them.”<br />
—Lindsay Bentis<br />
Initially, the intention was to renovate the 1980s era post<br />
and beam structure, reuniting the team from the client’s<br />
suburban renovation 10 years prior, which included Bentis<br />
and Overstreet, as well as Principal Kent Duckham of<br />
Duckham Architecture & Interiors, Paul Reidt, president of<br />
Kochman Reidt + Haigh Cabinetmakers, and Founder and<br />
Principal Stephanie Hubbard of SiteCreative Landscape<br />
Architecture. Once they began, however, they found that<br />
the original structure resisted their collective vision. Its<br />
framework didn’t lend itself to the sea of possibilities or<br />
celebrate the site’s sublime views, so they began anew.<br />
What emerged was a beach home without compromise,<br />
a transcendent, wholly authentic property in which the<br />
landscape and built environment not only peacefully<br />
coexist; they bring out the best in one another. Typically<br />
professionals come in sequentially, explains Reidt, yet this<br />
project unfolded as a true collaboration in which expertise<br />
unique to each field came in at the ground floor and was<br />
granted the freedom to shine. “The outcome,” says Reidt,<br />
“is a fully integrated work of art.” Overstreet concurs,<br />
praising the synergy of the organic, one-of-a-kind project<br />
and a process that moved like a “design/build.”<br />
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Above: A 28-foot multi-sliding Marvin door with<br />
an automated screen makes up most of the 30-<br />
foot ocean-facing wall. Right: The ridge skylight<br />
by Wasco was implemented early in the design.<br />
It bathes the kitchen in sunlight and was sized to<br />
match the width and length of the stairwell. An<br />
art installation by Carolina Sardi was conceived<br />
expressly for the site. Bentis and Sardi collaborated<br />
on the formation of its metal disks to give the array<br />
a certain freedom, and Bentis painted the black and<br />
white art that hangs across the way. The recessed<br />
niche of the living room was also a must. “Everyone<br />
loves a big, open floor plan,” says Bentis, “but it’s<br />
nice to have a space to curl up within them.”<br />
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Bentis, who grew up near the beaches of Malibu,<br />
was encouraged to channel the inside/outside living<br />
opportunities of homes in LA. “You can make that kind of<br />
West Coast house on the East Coast,” the client told her.<br />
Duckham, who is known for his traditional seaside<br />
architecture, embraced the stylistic departure and the<br />
aesthetic that Bentis and the client had honed over the<br />
years. Utilizing much of the existing footprint, he pursued a<br />
design that ebbs and flows within the indoor and outdoor<br />
realms, using generous amounts of glass, deep overhangs<br />
and porches both populated and private.<br />
Inside, the refreshing, clean-lined living spaces read like a<br />
deep exhale, but their striking simplicity hides the rigors<br />
demanded of the builder. The home’s parade of windows<br />
and doors required a mammoth amount of steel and<br />
structural wood beams, and created little space in the<br />
exterior walls for a highly technical infrastructure. As for<br />
the finish work, the modernist details—plaster reveals, no<br />
trim, and intersections and courses of the tile—required<br />
tremendous skill and effort from a construction standpoint.<br />
“It’s a gorgeous house, and it looks simple,” says<br />
Overstreet, “but even as a builder you don’t appreciate<br />
how difficult it’s going to be until you start doing it.”<br />
Bentis warded off any chill modern design can bring with<br />
a palette pulled from nature, and an honesty to every<br />
selection. In lieu of bold hues that might disrupt the views,<br />
she focused instead on textures, materials and forms.<br />
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Every surface has “a patina and a sort of worn quality,”<br />
she says, and artistry. The character-rich Tay wood, which is<br />
used lavishly throughout the home, has “a weathered yet<br />
beautifully refined” look to its proprietary, silver-gray finish,<br />
says Reidt, while the first-floor feature wall is lined with<br />
hand glazed Moroccan tile with color variances “that bleed<br />
and run like a watercolor,” says Bentis.<br />
Soft finishes and furnishings were shown a level of care<br />
Bentis would give her own home. She sourced buttery<br />
leathers that get better with time, reupholstered vintage<br />
finds with plush yet durable fabrics, designed bespoke<br />
pieces with Loki Custom Furniture and even painted<br />
artwork to hang on the walls. “Nothing is harsh or<br />
perfect,” maintains Bentis. But the effect is.<br />
Left: KR+H opted for white cabinetry in the<br />
kitchen to allow the Ann Sacks tile of the island<br />
and feature wall to prevail. Above: Bentis went<br />
“soft and serene” in the master bedroom, which<br />
has the feel of a cruise ship. Automated shades<br />
shut out the peerless views with the touch of<br />
a button. The master bath, by all accounts, is a<br />
masterstroke. It was designed as a wet room,<br />
with floating vanities, wall-mounted faucets and<br />
a soft mix of marble and tile by Heath Ceramics.<br />
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The property is “a perfect example of<br />
what’s possible when great architects and<br />
tradespeople collaborate, with the common<br />
goal of creating something truly special.”<br />
—DaviD Schumacher, Schumacher companieS<br />
Stephanie Hubbard of SiteCreative also cultivated a<br />
“natural and serendipitous” sensibility for the landscape<br />
architecture, extending an elemental, holistic beauty to the<br />
terrain, terraces, stone and structures. “We feel strongly<br />
about the materiality of everything connecting,” reveals<br />
Hubbard, “so the feel of the architecture and interiors is<br />
brought into the landscape.” Again, the organic is prized.<br />
SiteCreative developed a planting plan that feels like an<br />
extension of the shoreline’s existing environment, with<br />
new native plantings and curated coastal meadows that<br />
look as if they took root long ago. Their installation was no<br />
easy task; landscape contractor Schumacher Companies<br />
had to factor in the timing of seed, plugs<br />
and larger plant materials, as well as preserve and<br />
safeguard mature trees. The effect was well worth the<br />
effort, as the “relaxed” plantings soften the linear stone,<br />
hardscape and boardwalks that stray from the surf to<br />
crisscross the site.<br />
Open-air settings were conceived as a series of outdoor<br />
rooms with different functions and uses for each time of<br />
day. Residents can bask in full sun, views or in the flames of<br />
an outdoor fireplace, grill within a wind-sheltered outdoor<br />
kitchen or relax in a shaded pergola surrounded by an<br />
inland meadow. Such experiential moments honor the site,<br />
which is, after all, why it all began.<br />
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Left page: Hubbard designed<br />
a pergola with sun shades as a<br />
destination within the front yard.<br />
It is sheltered from the wind, and<br />
clad in the yellow cedar of the<br />
architecture. This woodburning<br />
granite fireplace and star of<br />
an outdoor terrace was a joint<br />
effort by Hubbard, Duckham and<br />
Overstreet. Every stone, after<br />
being detailed by the architect<br />
and landscape architect,<br />
was fabricated, labeled and<br />
numbered by Freshwater Stone<br />
out of Maine, and installed onsite<br />
by crane, piece by piece.<br />
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Landscape<br />
Architects<br />
Landscape architects imagine the outdoor<br />
living spaces that have redefined homes in<br />
New England. Considering both hardscape<br />
and softscape, these professionals play up a<br />
site to its fullest advantage when conceiving<br />
formal, woodland or pool gardens, terraces<br />
and outdoor kitchens.<br />
Courtesy of The MacDowell Company<br />
Photograph by Gregg Shupe<br />
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Photo: Warren Patterson Photography
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A WORD FROM<br />
THE LANDSCAPE<br />
ARCHITECT:<br />
This pool project represents the<br />
first time that Onyx Corporation<br />
collaborated with Gregory Lombardi<br />
Design. The project entailed fitting a<br />
pool house, swimming pool and spa<br />
into a beautiful backyard on the cusp<br />
of a picturesque Concord meadow.<br />
Much of what makes the site so<br />
spectacular also made it a challenge,<br />
explains Senior Associate and Project<br />
Manager Rebecca Verner, and the<br />
landscape architects “had to be<br />
creative about how to fit in that pool<br />
terrace and pool house given the<br />
conservation setbacks.” Their vision<br />
was to elevate the pool terrace to<br />
allow it to serve as its own enclosure<br />
and provide an outlook that captures<br />
“the romance of a mown lawn as it<br />
transitions to the meadow beyond,”<br />
adds Principal Gregory Lombardi, a<br />
vista he describes as a “visual palate<br />
cleanser” that seems to slow time.<br />
The design aesthetic walks the line<br />
between New England restraint<br />
and modernity. Fieldstone walls and<br />
bluestone salvaged from the existing<br />
terrace were deftly interwoven with<br />
Morning Mist Granite in a seamless<br />
mix of old and new. The homeowner<br />
shared Verner’s passion for materials,<br />
and she was fascinated by the process<br />
of selecting stone and finishes. Her<br />
enthusiasm only paid off, as “the<br />
granites used around the pool area<br />
elevated the design,” offers Verner.<br />
Over the course of this project, Onyx<br />
Corporation and Gregory Lombardi<br />
Design formed “a great functional<br />
relationship,” says Verner, and Onyx<br />
is now one of her “go-to” firms.<br />
Onyx did a brilliant job of realizing<br />
the conception, Verner enthuses. “It<br />
takes high quality contractors to see<br />
our design work to the end.” To learn<br />
more, visit lombardidesign.com.<br />
Additional credits: Pool by Environmental<br />
Pools; architecture: DSK Dewing Schmid<br />
Kearns Architects + Planners; stone:<br />
Freshwater Stone; additional planting by<br />
Parterre Garden Services; photography<br />
by Warren Patterson<br />
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CREATING<br />
YOUR<br />
BACKYARD<br />
OASIS<br />
Last summer, residents everywhere were scrambling to<br />
make a splash in their own backyards and reaching out<br />
to Onyx Corporation to see just how fast the landscape<br />
professionals could make that happen. When installing a<br />
pool, there are many moving parts—it’s<br />
not just about finding a spot and filling<br />
’er up. In actuality, the time to begin your<br />
landscape transformation is now; Onyx<br />
Corporation rolls out how the process<br />
should go.<br />
Homeowners should begin by discussing<br />
pool ideas with Onyx, leveraging the<br />
landscape contractor’s deep knowledge<br />
of the field and their industry contacts.<br />
Onyx works with a select group of<br />
landscape architects and can offer<br />
guidance on finding the right fit for<br />
your vision. Landscape Division Manager Julie Bergeron<br />
and Landscape Assistant Manager Megan Moreland<br />
explain: “The pool is the driving goal, but the landscape<br />
surrounding it anchors the pool and transforms your yard<br />
into the ideal getaway space. It is essential that the two be<br />
cohesive and studied as a whole.”<br />
Once a schematic design is complete, Onyx works with<br />
homeowners to meet with pool contractors, compare<br />
options and review details. Onyx then collaborates with<br />
Onyx Corporation<br />
reveals the ideal<br />
way to put in a<br />
pool—and all that<br />
goes with it.<br />
you, the landscape architect and pool contractor to value<br />
engineer the design and provide final pricing that aligns with<br />
your budget. The team will then spearhead the engineering<br />
and permitting process in order to secure the pool permit.<br />
Permit in hand, the pool contractor can<br />
mobilize and excavation can begin. Onyx<br />
will guide you step-by-step through<br />
the landscape and pool construction<br />
process—ranging from gunite and<br />
plumbing to patios, lawn and lighting,<br />
and then to the fun, final step, filling<br />
the pool! During this process, Onyx’s<br />
full-service team will be onsite, building<br />
the landscape that envelops your pool,<br />
including fire features, outdoor kitchens,<br />
walkways, retaining walls and plantings.<br />
Bringing these elements to fruition can<br />
occur simultaneously, and having the right team in place is<br />
essential for coordination and efficiency.<br />
Now that you are ready to enjoy your new pool and<br />
landscape, the last consideration is upkeep. With your<br />
team in place, Onyx will oversee the transition from<br />
construction to maintenance. Your landscape and<br />
pool will be carefully maintained, ensuring the success<br />
and longevity of your own personal paradise. Visit<br />
onyxcorporation.net to get started.<br />
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Landscape<br />
Landscape contractors sculpt the grounds<br />
and cultivate the terrain that inspires us to get<br />
outdoors. From masonry and construction to<br />
plantings, fencing, maintenance and irrigation,<br />
these professionals keep our terraces and<br />
gardens glorious in all four seasons.<br />
Courtesy of O’Hara & Company<br />
Photography by Warren Patterson<br />
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Builder: Howland Company, Inc.; Landscape Architecture: Gregory Lombardi Design; Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
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Wood Ridge Circle<br />
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SUDBURY 36 Skyview Lane<br />
SUDBURY | 36 Skyview Lane<br />
List Price: $1,895,000<br />
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WESTON 376 Glen Road<br />
WESTON | 376 Glen Road<br />
List Price: $1,699,000<br />
WESTON List Price: | $1,699,000<br />
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WESTON 119 121 Church Street Lots<br />
WESTON | 119 & 121 Church Street Lots<br />
List Price: $1,300,000<br />
WESTON List Price: | $1,300,000<br />
119 & 121 Church Street Lots<br />
List Price: $1,895,000<br />
List Price: $1,699,000<br />
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CONSERVING ENERGY<br />
CREATING VALUE<br />
ADDING COMFORT<br />
706 Brockton Avenue (Route 123), Abington, MA 02351 • www.andersoninsul.com • 800-472-1717
Love Your Garage.<br />
Quality Floor Coatings, Cabinets and Organizers<br />
781-836-5145<br />
www.bostongarage.com
The Comforts of Home & Garden<br />
The Outdoor Living Store<br />
Outdoor Furniture<br />
Garden Gifts<br />
Statuary<br />
Perennials<br />
Annuals<br />
Trees & Shrubs<br />
Pottery<br />
Fountains<br />
Umbrellas<br />
Fire Pits Sunbrella Cushions Tableware<br />
Designers welcome<br />
Closed Tuesdays<br />
National Furniture<br />
Retailer of the Year in<br />
the Casual Furnishings<br />
Industry<br />
1265 Massachusetts Avenue | Lexington, Massachusetts<br />
781-861-1200 | www.seasonsfour.com
Elegance<br />
Meets Excellence<br />
Boston Billiard Emporium<br />
combines a passion for antiques<br />
with painstaking craftsmanship.<br />
PROfile<br />
The “Golden Age of Billiards” lasted from the 1860’s until the Great Depression. During<br />
this period, a billiard table was not simply a game table, it was a piece of furniture of the<br />
highest caliber. These tables were made by the finest artisans, using rare woods from all<br />
over the world.<br />
Since 1975, Boston Billiard Emporium has been New England’s leading conservator<br />
of antique billiard tables. Owner Stephen Kelly combines his love of antiques with the<br />
painstaking craftsmanship required to bring the exquisite billiard tables of a bygone era<br />
back to their original grandeur.<br />
Their tables have been featured in books, movies and magazines, as well as on NECN’s<br />
“Dream Home” and PBS’ “This Old House”. Many of New England’s interior designers<br />
as well as architects have planned their client’s billiard room around a billiard table and<br />
accessories purchased from Boston Billiards.<br />
New pool tables are also available at Boston Billiard Emporium. These tables can be<br />
customized by selecting the species of wood, color of stain, cloth and pockets so that the<br />
table works better in your space. You will also find a great selection of accessories, as<br />
well as a full-service repairs department for anything that may go wrong with your table.<br />
343 Medford Street<br />
Somerville, MA 02145<br />
(800) 479-1661, Local (617) 625-2718<br />
www.bostonbilliards.net<br />
Photography by Warren Patterson<br />
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Linen Drum with Trim<br />
Custom French Oval Silk<br />
Lampshade with Custom Trim<br />
Silk Pleated Lampshade<br />
Custom Nautical Lampshade<br />
Creative Custom Lamps,<br />
Shade Designs And Lighting<br />
12 Walden Street, Concord, MA | 978.369.3000 | Hours: Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm | concordlampandshade.com<br />
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patchwork bone maple / solid bronze / custom sizes<br />
Year-round studio/gallery, Monday-Friday by appointment • 549 Park Avenue, Portsmouth, RI<br />
Seasonal Cape Cod showroom/gallery • 11 West Main Street, Wellfleet, MA<br />
jeffsoderbergh • 401.845.9087 • JEFFSODERBERGH.COM
CAPE COD LANTERNS<br />
Handcrafted<br />
Brass and Copper Lighting<br />
508.945.1659 | 309 Orleans Rd., North Chatham, MA | capecodlanterns.com<br />
Cape Cod Cupola Co., Inc.<br />
Manufacturers of<br />
quality cupolas in<br />
wood and AZEK<br />
(PVC), as well as<br />
uniquely handcrafted<br />
copper weather vanes<br />
and finials<br />
since 1939.<br />
www.capecodcupola.com • 508-994-2119<br />
78 State Road • Dartmouth, MA 02747<br />
Design Wood Floors<br />
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE FUTURE<br />
IS LOOKING BRIGHT AT KENYON WOODWORKING!<br />
designwoodfloors.com | 617.967.4071<br />
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INDEX<br />
a Blade of Grass.........................................................20-21, 24-25, 210<br />
A.Tesa Architecture................................................................................. 6<br />
Acorn Tree and Landscaping.......................................................... 224<br />
Adolfo Perez Architect.........................................................................47<br />
Anderson Fireplace............................................................................ 239<br />
Anderson Insulation........................................................................... 248<br />
Anthony Catalfano Interiors........................................................ 112-113<br />
Ares Structures..................................................................................... 241<br />
Atlantic View, Inc................................................................................ 226<br />
Audio Video Design............................................................................190<br />
Bannon Custom Builders..................................................................... 73<br />
Betsy Bassett Interiors................................................................. 110, 111<br />
Boston Billiard Emporium................................................................. 251<br />
Boston Fine Home Details...................................................................16<br />
Boston Garage..................................................................................... 249<br />
Boston Luxury Beds........................................................................... 242<br />
Boston Stone Restoration................................................................. 176<br />
Botanica Fine Gardens.......................................................................223<br />
Brassworks Fine Home Details...........................................................16<br />
brookes + hill Custom Builders, Inc..................................................70<br />
C2MG Builders........................................................................................76<br />
California Closets..................................................................................... 8<br />
Cape Cod Cupola................................................................................ 254<br />
Cape Cod Lanterns............................................................................. 254<br />
Capital Masonry & Paving.................................................................222<br />
Carter & Company.................................................................114, 115-122<br />
Catalano Architects..................................................39, 88-97, 144-155<br />
Catherine Bassick/Landvest Real Estate.................................... 243<br />
Catherine Truman Architects.............................................................49<br />
Charles River Wine Cellars.................................... 232-233, 234-235<br />
Clapper’s Creative Fireplace Solutions......................................... 236<br />
Clarke—Sub-Zero & Wolf Showroom & Test Kitchen..................133<br />
CM Ragusa Builders.......................................................................54-55<br />
Columbia Contracting Corp.........................................................62-63<br />
Concept Building, Inc............................................................................ 77<br />
Concord Lamp & Shade.....................................................................252<br />
Control 4/Simple Home.....................................................................186<br />
Crane Appliance.................................................................................... 131<br />
Creative Systems.........................................................................182-183<br />
Crown Point Cabinetry....................................................................... 132<br />
Cumar, Inc.................................................................................88-97, 169<br />
Cutting Edge Systems................................................................184, 185<br />
Dan Gordon Landscape Architects................................................ 207<br />
Designer Garage Doors..................................................................... 245<br />
Divine Design Center...............................................................19, 26-29<br />
Design Wood Floors.......................................................................... 254<br />
Duckham Architecture & Interiors................................... 46, 192-199<br />
E.W. Tarca Construction, Inc...............................................................68<br />
Elite Media Solutions..................................................................180-181<br />
Elza B. Design, Inc............................................................................... 123<br />
Eric Haydel Design.....................................................................108, 109<br />
F.H. Perry Builder....................................................................................15<br />
Fallon Custom Homes & Renovations...................................... 60-61<br />
Fallon Fine Cabinetry & Millwork.................................................... 167<br />
FBN Construction................................. Inside Front Cover-1, 26-29<br />
Ferguson Showrooms........................................................................ 134<br />
Fine Finish, Inc......................................... 88-97, 144-155, Back Cover<br />
Foley Fiore Architecture........................................................ 26-29, 38<br />
Frank Webb Home.............................................................................. 139<br />
The Gallery..............................................................................................137<br />
Gibson/Sotheby’s Mizner Team............................................246-247<br />
Gregory Lombardi Design ..............20-21, 24-25, 202-203, 212-213<br />
Groom Construction.............................................................................87<br />
Hawthorn Builders................................................................................86<br />
Heather Vaughan Interior Design.......................................... 104, 105<br />
HMI........................................................................................................... 128<br />
Howland Company, Inc........................................................................ 72<br />
Horner Millwork....................................................................................164<br />
Hunt Hardwood.................................................................................... 177<br />
Installations Plus, Inc.............................................................26-29, 174<br />
Interiology Design Co................................................................ 106, 107<br />
Jan Gleysteen Architects, Inc...................................................... 32-33<br />
Jarvis Appliance................................................................................... 143<br />
JB Sash & Door..................................................................................... 176<br />
Jeff Soderbergh...................................................................................253<br />
JH Klein Wassink & Company, Inc..........................................158-159<br />
Judy Lee Design................................................................................... 123<br />
JW Construction, Inc.............................................................................69<br />
Karen Sebastian, LLC.........................................................................208<br />
Kenyon Woodworking............................................................. 168, 254<br />
KINEGATE............................................................................................. 230<br />
Kirby Perkins........................................................................................... 74<br />
Kistler & Knapp Builders, Inc...................................................... 64-65<br />
Kitchen & Bath Gallery/Supply New England.............................140<br />
Kitchen Visions..................................................................................... 142<br />
Kotzen Interiors, LLP.................................................... 98-99, 102-103<br />
KVC Builders..........................................................................2-3, 144-155<br />
L’Atelier................................................................................................... 138<br />
Landscape Creations............................................................ 24-25, 227<br />
LDa Architecture & Interiors.......................................34-35, 100-101<br />
LeaMar Industries................................................................................ 163<br />
Lien Enterprises Custom Builders & Renovators.......................... 75<br />
Longfellow Design Build.........................................................................7<br />
Lynch Construction & Remodeling...................................................78<br />
The MacDowell Company..............................................200-201, 209<br />
Magma Design Group........................................................................210<br />
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design........20-21, 22-23, 206<br />
McCormack Builders................................................................80, 81-83<br />
Mellowes & Paladino, Inc........................................................ 30-31, 42<br />
Meyer & Meyer Architecture and Interiors.........................10, 50-51<br />
MGa | Marcus Gleysteen Architects........................................... 36-37<br />
Michael S. Coffin.................................................................................. 228<br />
Minuteman Tile & Marble Co. Inc.................................................... 170<br />
Monique’s Bath Showroom.............................................................. 142<br />
New England Shutter Mills.............................................................. 238<br />
Newton Kitchens & Design............................................................... 135<br />
Nicholaeff Architecture + Design........................................44-45, 48<br />
Oasis Shower Doors...............................................................................18<br />
O’Hara & Company................................................88-97, 214-215, 228<br />
Old Grove Partners................................................................................66<br />
Bold = Advertisement<br />
One Source.................................................................................... 161, 171<br />
Onyx Corporation....................................................20-21, 212-213, 221<br />
Onyx Marble & Granite.......................................................................160<br />
Paris Ceramics........................................................................... 17, 88-97<br />
Parterre Garden Services.................................................................. 231<br />
Paul Weber Architecture......................................................................41<br />
Pella Windows & Doors Company................................. 156-157, 166<br />
Pellettieri Associates........................................................................... 211<br />
Perfection Fence................................................................................. 229<br />
Peter Sachs Architect...........................................................................46<br />
Photos by Paige...................................................................................252<br />
Plymouth Quarries............................................................................. 220<br />
Polhemus Savery DaSilva..................................................................... 9<br />
Poirier Sales and Service.................................................................... 131<br />
ProSource New England.....................................................................141<br />
QF Design Build.....................................................................................84<br />
R.P. Marzilli & Company.................................. 22-23, 24-25, 216-217<br />
Renjeau Galleries.................................................................................237<br />
RootCellar Concepts.................................................................... 126-127<br />
S.J. Overstreet Construction Co..........................................13, 192-199<br />
Sanford Custom Builders, Inc......................................................58-59<br />
Schumacher Companies............ 22-23, 24-25, 88-97, 192-199, 218<br />
Sea-Dar Construction..............................................................52-53, 67<br />
Seasons Four........................................................................................ 250<br />
Select Horticulture, Inc....................................................................... 219<br />
Shope Reno Wharton...........................................................................43<br />
Slocum Hall Design Group................................................................. 40<br />
Snow and Jones, Inc........................................................................... 136<br />
Soderholm Custom Builders..........................................56-57, 88-97<br />
Sounds Good/Simple Home....................................................186, 187<br />
Splash......................................................................................124-125, 130<br />
SSG Pools.............................................................................................. 230<br />
Stone, Inc............................................................................................... 165<br />
Sudbury Design Group..............................88-97, 144-155, 204-205<br />
System 7/Wolfers.................................................................144-155, 188<br />
Systems Design & Integration, Inc.................................. 178-179, 189<br />
T&J Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing, Inc.........................240<br />
Thoughtforms.......................................................................................4-5<br />
Trinity Irrigation & Lighting..............................................................225<br />
TSP Smart Spaces................................................................................191<br />
Turada Hardwood Shingles.............................................................244<br />
United Marble.......................................................................... 88-97, 174<br />
Velux/Harvey Building Products..................................................... 175<br />
Venegas and Company...................................................................... 129<br />
Walpole Outdoors................................................................. 88-97, 226<br />
Walter Lane Cabinetmaker, LLC...................................................... 162<br />
Wayne Towle Master Refinishing<br />
& Restoration, Inc................................ 88-97, 144-155, Back Cover<br />
Western Window Systems.........................256-Inside Back Cover<br />
Whitla Brothers Builders, Inc..............................................................71<br />
WKP Construction.................................................................................79<br />
Yankee Barn Homes.............................................................................85<br />
Youngblood Builders..............................................................................11<br />
Zen Associates........................................................................22-23, 208<br />
ZK Painting.................................................................................... 172-173<br />
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window systems<br />
Carol Kurth, principal<br />
Carol Kurth Architecture + Interiors
westernwindowsystems.com
Together We Make Wood... Work.<br />
Architect: Catalano Architects; Builder: Soderholm Custom Builders; Photography: Warren Patterson<br />
781-449-1313<br />
www.waynetowle.com<br />
FINE FINISH, INC.<br />
ARCHITECTURAL MILLWORK<br />
508-875-2020<br />
www.finefinishinc.com