The Cambridge TV House: Updating a Classic Queen Anne

She found a kindred spirit in architect Marcus Gleysteen, who sketched an open first-floor kitchen and family room stretching the length of the house from front to rear. He also designed a wide stairway that ascended in a straight run (versus the two narrow dogleg stairways that were there), a more orderly arrangement of second-floor bedrooms, and a reconfigured third floor devoted to the master suite.

Shown: At the heart of the first-floor layout stands the kitchen, with its 11½-foot-long island topped by maple butcher block, whitewashed southern-yellow-pine vent hood, and white flat-panel wood cabinetry.

Kitchen design: K. Marshall Design
Cabinets and vent hood: Dutch Made
Butcher block: The Grothouse Lumber Company
Refrigerator and range: Wolf
Sink and faucet: Kohler
Backsplash: Roma Tile
Flooring: Lumber Liquidators
Radiant heat: Uponor