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It is no surprise that this window seat with a dramatic view is a family favorite. The seat is so large it doubles as a sleeping area for overflow weekend guests. Photo by Lindsay Selin.

Homeowners can enjoy the outdoors cozily ensconced on a deck adjacent to the main bedroom of a lake-front home. Photo by Susan Teare.

Clean and simple natural materials were chosen for this kitchen reflecting the beauty of the outdoors. Photo by Lindsay Selin.

The site positioning and window-clad exterior connect this contemporary home to the rugged shore and lake beyond. Photo by Susan Teare.

A bedroom with a contemporary farmhouse vibe and great natural light is a wonderful place to begin (or end) the day.

A bathroom with a view is a spa-like retreat tucked away from the hustle and bustle of a busy family home. Photo by Susan Teare.

A material mix of Vermont slate and maple give this bathroom a sense of place. Photo by Susan Teare.

A barn-inspired home with an expansive front porch is designed to take advantage of the mountain views. Photo by Susan Teare.

LED pendant lights with red cords balance minimalism with color in the stairwell that leads to the roof deck.

. To enable proper drainage, adjustable pedestals hold the ipe deck sections above a waterproof membrane that sits on the sloped roof.

“Sometimes you want an open rail, but here the design—solid boards with thin gaps between them—makes you feel comfortably contained,” architect Colin Flavin says about the guardrails.

Each bay of the pergola is topped with its own motorized canvas canopy for shade. Hubbard planted bamboo at the back of the property to provide screening from the neighbors.

The goal was to connect indoor and out,” landscape architect Stephanie Hubbard says of this backyard redesign, which includes a spa nestled into two blackened-steel planters.

The gabion walls on the carport are made from river rocks that were excavated on site.

As landscape architect Rob Gilmore’s initial carport design progressed, it became a fully enclosed building. “The lifted roof makes it feel like a place that wants to host you,” architect Sarah Walker says. Turner Steel Co. fabricated the Corten steel planter, which Gilmore filled with hoogendorn holly.

A driveway of gray pavers leads to the 350-square-foot garage where the owners can tandem park two cars. It also boasts an electric vehicle charging station. A spruce fence with a horizontal shadowbox design will weather to gray and fade into the background.

A pair of back-to-back custom sofas covered in Pindler and Perennials upholstery and separated by a walnut table delineates the formal living room from the library.

Because her clients enjoy cocktails after work, interior designer Kristen Rivoli custom designed an ottoman to feature a clever pull-out drink tray. The ottoman is covered in Spinneybeck chartreuse leather to echo the Benjamin Moore Gibson Gold walls.

The original N.C. Wyeth oil painting for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island hangs above the fireplace in the library; the bar at the top of the painting is a placeholder for the book title.

Payne | Bouchier Fine Builders opened up the kitchen to the stairway and designed a center island that involved some tricky plumbing. Nearby, Rivoli reimagined the formal dining area as a cozy family room cocooned in Phillip Jeffries grasscloth, while the wall adjacent to the fireplace provided the perfect spot for an antique Welsh teacup cupboard.

Rivoli in the home’s relocated dining space, which affords the family views of Boston Public Garden.

A material mix of Vermont slate and maple give this bathroom a sense of place. Photo by Susan Teare.

The site positioning and window-clad exterior connect this contemporary home to the rugged shore and lake beyond. Photo by Susan Teare.

A bathroom with a view is a spa-like retreat tucked away from the hustle and bustle of a busy family home. Photo by Susan Teare.

Clean and simple natural materials were chosen for this kitchen reflecting the beauty of the outdoors. Photo by Lindsay Selin.

A barn-inspired home with an expansive front porch is designed to take advantage of the mountain views. Photo by Susan Teare.

Homeowners can enjoy the outdoors cozily ensconced on a deck adjacent to the main bedroom of a lake-front home. Photo by Susan Teare.

Visual Comfort’s Armillary Sphere Chandelier and Double-Arm Library Light add glow to a living room painted in a deep navy paint.

Lighting plans ensure the architecture, design, and construction teams are all on the same page.

The ultra-glam Melange Pill Form Sconce designed by Kelly Werstler for Visual Comfort is available through Light New England.

An excellent example of how proper lighting can elevate a space. Element by Tech Lighting highlights the statue which is the room’s focal point. The Element line allows you to specify what optics to use to create the desired beam spread for accent lighting.

The William Pharmacy Floor Lamp designed by J. Randall Powers for Visual Comfort feels at home both contemporary and traditional spaces.

A proper kitchen lighting plan balances function and beauty. Joni Pendants by Tech Lighting illuminate the kitchen island while Tech Lighting’s (Entra CL), 3” Round Flanged lighting adds task lighting where it is needed most.

A new annex, referred to as “the wine room” by the homeowners, includes a framed 1920s photograph of Henry Bowles’s wife, Edna, in a canoe; the canoe now rests out back.

A new front entry opens into a mudroom, with steps leading up to three arched openings that overlook a terrace where the family enjoys alfresco dining.

The porch, furnished with neutral RH wicker seating and a showstopping Moroccan lighting fixture from Tazi Designs, is the favorite daytime gathering place. “There is plenty of color and drama in the view,” the designer says.

In the main bedroom, Myer chose Benjamin Moore Bayleaf for the old woodwork, paired with a Zoffany fabric wallcovering in the wife’s favorite color

A ten-bulb Double Church Chandelier by Brendan Ravenhill Studio brings a modern vibe to the historic living room. The walking sticks and canes in the basket at the foot of the stairs were left in the home by its original owner, the late Henry Bowles. A doorway behind and to the left of the fireplace leads to the new section of the house.

The kitchen features Vermont Soapstone Co. counters and NH Woodworks cabinets, while Croft House stools surround the stainless-steel-topped island.

When the home’s boathouse was refurbished, some of its wood paneling was salvaged and applied in a ribbon frieze along the top of the game room wall. It perfectly matches the antique wood paneling of the staircase.

Charles Myer’s design for an addition to a circa 1910 log cabin on the shore of New Hampshire’s Lake Sunapee is unabashedly modern. The original part of the house is full of historic charm, while the new section has room to accommodate an ever-expanding group of friends and family. Despite contemporary comforts, activities at the home have changed little over the years.

Above a foundation constructed of local fieldstone, the home’s original section features projecting gables that once housed sleeping porches and a semicircular covered porch overlooking the lake.

New construction meets original construction as you enter the family room from an alcove near the stairwell; a custom Thayer Design Studio rug and Kenneth Raye Workshops coffee table anchor the space.

Books that belonged to the original owners fill the dining room shelves, and a rice-paper print of a lake trout caught by the homeowners’ son hangs above the fireplace.

NH Woodworks crafted the built-in bunks in the bunkroom, which sleeps eight adults and an infinite number of kids. The leather Lostine pulls on the drawers sport hand-stitched shapes.

The kids’ bathrooms have stone countertops and Original BTC lantern sconces.

The outdoor shower, custom built from a granite pillar, is an unfussy, practical structure that inhabits a graceful moment at the pool entry.

Working with existing changes in grade, the pool sits higher than the landscape beyond, providing an elevated view of the harbor; local granite coping and ipe decking create the pool’s quiet palette, which is offset by the property’s most colorful gardens, filled with catmint, ferns, viburnum, and lowbush blueberry.

Minimal custom bronze railings, which complement the home and gardens, lead the transition from house to pool and through the landscape’s many layers.

The ipe boardwalk floats just inches above the soil to create long linear paths throughout the property; plants, such as rosa rugosa and lowbush blueberry, add subtle color throughout the seasons.

A combination of plants, including evergreens, ferns, moss, Enkianthus, and a threadleaf Japanese maple, at the front entry delivers varied texture and a subtly diverse palette; a boulder was delicately set to be welcoming near the front door.

The view from a living area into the courtyard invites the eye to follow a path of river rocks, with contrasting shape and color, to two boulders set with utmost precision as a focal point. The courtyard’s intentional microclimate permits a secure habitat for specimen trees.

A view from the magnificent courtyard looks into the same living area with sliding glass walls on either end. “The connection to the garden is very immediate,” says Jana Bryan, senior landscape architect at JMMDS and project lead.

At the entry, granite pavers, which can be driven on, were laid to complement the house’s geometric cladding, which is stained cedar, lead-coated copper, and stone veneer. Ferns, mosses, juniper, and a Japanese maple add a lush, visual softness to the space. Coe Studios created the lanterns that rest on custom bases.

For a property on the southern coast of Maine at the convergence of a tidal river and the ocean, Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio used native and other hearty plantings that could withstand salty air and high winds. Selections near a screened porch work to create privacy while highlighting harbor views. Local boulders set throughout the landscape enhance the natural setting.

Katie Rosenfeld

The airy sunroom, once a dark nook wedged behind a brick fireplace in the old living room, now provides a bright sitting area off the dining room. Lickie the pooch feels right at home in the sunny new kitchen.

Lickie the pooch feels right at home in the sunny new kitchen.

Imported hardwood forms the floor of the cozy patio off the kitchen.

The hallway was the perfect spot for an enormous work of art the homeowner inherited from her father; it’s all about texture—a white velvet sofa, tweedy ottomans, and a nubby rug—in the adjacent living room.

Another bedroom gets a handsome mix of subtle patterns in rug and bedding.

The home’s transformation will be featured in Collected by Sarah Richardson: Colour + Neutral (Simon & Schuster), due out in April.

An abstract painting by Alabama artist William McLure offers a shot of color in the neutral-toned dining room

Designer Katie Rosenfeld mixed materials and texture to elegant effect in the dining room, pairing luxe white leather B&B Italia chairs with a walnut table designed by Rosenfeld and crafted by Kevin Cradock Builders. A glass-and-brass cylinder light from Roll & Hill strikes a dramatic note.

The Made Goods night table adds a deco touch to a bedroom.

A daughter’s bathroom sports a playful Schumacher wallpaper.

In the tranquil main bedroom, the walls are upholstered in a Holland & Sherry fabric, and a light fixture from Dennis Miller Associates hangs above the bed. That’s a Robert Rauschenberg painting next to the doorway that leads into the dressing area. A custom screen by Christophe Côme, sourced from New York’s Cristina Grajales Gallery, separates the bedroom from a sitting area.

Adorned with a Claude Vernard painting, the walnut panels in this sitting area off the entry “float” on top of existing moldings, adding a touch of contemporary to the space. Hickox Williams Architects ups the ante with its sleek stairwell spindles.

Builder Adams + Beasley Associates fabricated this custom walnut dining island while designer Alan Tanksley updated the existing kitchen cabinets; the light fixtures are from The Urban Electric Co.

Holland & Sherry’s Desert Storm fabric envelops another guest room, where artworks by David Lloyd Brown and a light fixture by French industrial designer Serge Mouille hang.

A guest room features Wayne Pate’s Poppies Noir wallpaper from Studio Four NYC.

The interior designer and architects collaborated on this marble-and-bronze fireplace surround in the main bedroom sitting area; it has an asymmetrical design that adds gravitas to the existing small square fireplace, which couldn’t be replaced.

Situated within a nineteenth-century building in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, the triplex apartment operates more like a townhouse thanks to its own ground-level entrance.

Gentleman’s Gray shows up again in the second-floor office, which features a geometric rug from Beauvais Carpets.lor also appears in the main suite’s dressing area, which the architects completely reworked.

In the game room, a must-have space for the homeowners, classico travertine sheaths the fireplace surround.

Benjamin Moore Gentleman’s Gray in a high-gloss finish adds drama to the third-floor main bath.

Pivot doors are a great way to make a statement, and they are always a fun challenge for our shop. Pivot systems require holding extremely tight tolerances during fabrication, and ensuring they operate flawlessly and provide the necessary weather protection and security is tricky, but the end result is a door that really stands out. Photo Jim Westphalen.

Pierced with metal and glass, this veneered door forced us to rethink traditional construction methods. From an unconventional core construction to RFID enabled access and an electromagnetic latch system, everything about this door required us to invent new solutions. Photo by Susan Teare.

When closed, this door becomes almost invisible next to the slatted windows and siding. Incorporating weatherproof gaskets and seals, concealed hinges and low profile handles and locking hardware was a technical challenge, but keeping the uninterrupted façade was paramount to the overall aesthetic. Photo by Jim Westphalen.

This contemporary door, clad in western red cedar with steel accents, makes quite a statement, and also hints at the interior detailing of the home, where the split “V” cedar detail appears again on the chimney column above a large central fireplace. Extremely tight tolerances on all sides of this large door made for a challenging installation sequence and demanded a high degree of coordination from framing the rough opening through the applying the final trim. Photo by Jim Westphalen.

Making a colorful statement, this mahogany-clad set of doors stands out against a charred shou sugi ban and black metal surrounding. The offset split between leaves and a custom handle add visual interest. Like many of our larger doors, this door utilizes a multi-point latching system for stability and security. Photo by Erica Allen

This traditional door features true divided light, and a curved jamb scribed to the restored stone opening. While it may look similar to the century-old door it replaced, modern thermal barriers such as low- E coated insulated glass units, an active sweep and high quality silicone gasketing ensure that it meets the requirements of current energy-efficient building practices. Photo by Jim Westphalen.

Pivot doors are a great way to make a statement, and they are always a fun challenge for our shop. Pivot systems require holding extremely tight tolerances during fabrication, and ensuring they operate flawlessly and provide the necessary weather protection and security is tricky, but the end result is a door that really stands out. Photo by Jim Westphalen

Entirely clad in Corten steel, with a concealed electronic entry system, this door presented a series of demanding technical challenges. From designing a system to get power to the hidden keypad to ensuring that the door was capable of supporting its own weight, there was nothing straightforward about this door’s construction. Photo by Erica Allen.

Made from reclaimed materials for a Net Zero home, this door needed a rustic look, but also needed to be able to withstand the extreme weather cycles of a Vermont mountainside, providing flawless operation and insulation year-round. Photo by Lindsay Selin.

Pierced with metal and glass, this veneered door forced us to rethink traditional construction methods. From an unconventional core construction to RFID enabled access and an electromagnetic latch system, everything about this door required us to invent new solutions. Photo by Susan Teare.

When closed, this door becomes almost invisible next to the slat ted windows and siding. Incorporating weatherproof gasketing and seals, concealed hinges and low profile handles and locking hardware was a technical challenge, but keeping the uninterrupted aesthetic of the slatted look was paramount to the overall façade. Photo by Jim Westphalen

This contemporary door, clad in western red cedar with steel accents, makes quite a statement, and also hints at the interior detailing of the home, where the split “V” cedar detail appears again on the chimney column above a large central fireplace. Extremely tight tolerances on all sides of this large door made for a challenging installation sequence and demanded a high degree of coordination from framing the rough opening through the applying the final trim. Photo by Jim Westphalen

This set of paired doors was designed and built as a reproduction for a registered National Historic Landmark. In addition to being historically accurate, the doors needed modern refinements, such as ADA compliance, weather protection from a harsh north western exposure, and durability for use in a commercial restaurant setting. Photo by Lindsay Selin.

Four Winds, 36″H x 34″W, oil on canvas

The Springs, 35″H x 35″W, oil on canvas

Artist Emilia Dubicki in her Morris Cove studio

Breakwater on the Sound no.2, 52″H x 72″W, acrylic on canvas

Apollo’s Answer, 66″H x 60″W, oil on canvas;

Short Summer, 64″H x 50″W, oil on canvas.

The recently redesigned lobby by Celerie Kemble at the Mayflower Inn & Spa in Washington features a whimsical wallpaper that plays up the room’s dramatic height to great effect; the buffet and mirror are by William Yeoward.