Take the Chill off Modern Architecture

Library Area

At one end of a long dining room at the finished Cambridge TV-show project house is a library area, where the ceiling soars to 13 1/2 feet. Tall shelves, a stone-veneer chimney, and windows masked from the street by shoji screens define the homey space, which homeowner George Mabry says he will u se every day. "I'll have dinner parties," he says. "But I didn't want the room gathering dust the rest of the time."

• Gallery: The Forever Expanding House

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