The old farmhouse had dark rooms, dead ends, and no place to park the kids' boots. Here's how an inventive redo made an 1830s artifact just right for a 21st-century household
Clark, joined by interior designer Denise Welch-May, looked for ways to wrap gathering spaces, like a family/TV room and a homework-friendly eating nook, around a smaller, more efficient cooking zone, opening work and play areas to one another—and the house to its newly landscaped front and back yards-. They also treated every corner and wall as a canvas for their artful cabinetmaker, Brian Ilsley.
Shown: Cabinets under the family room windows hide media components and a flat-screen TV on a motorized lift.
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