A stone's throw from a main commercial street northwest of Boston, an 1850s Italianate farmhouse basks in the serenity of an intimate lot separated from its neighbors by mature trees and hedges. Restrained yet resplendent, the green-shuttered white house with a deep front porch and storybook porte-cochère is endowed both with the reverence of American colonial history and an element of je ne sais quoi that some say only the French are able to conjure. But it wasn't always this alluring.
"Our client wanted to redo a number of things that previous builders had done to the house and try to get it back to the original," says architect Patrick Ahearn, a classicist whose eponymous firm specializes in homes that are sympathetic to the past but conducive to 21stcentury living. "They also wanted to add a European flavor." The wife, an artist, is French and she uses the carriage house, formerly a garage, as her studio.
Bringing 19th-century character back to the four-bedroom abode required "reimagining it as a kind of country house," says Ahearn. "The transformation was dramatic, but we did not have to rip the whole house apart. We really didn't add on to it, we just revised every surface and every space as well as the landscaping." Ahearn has built or renovated a number of houses on Martha's Vineyard, where the owner of the antique has a second home. Calling Ahearn’s ability to restore historical homes “genius,” the homeowner says she wanted some of that “Vinyardesque” flair in her mainland home.
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Dreamscape
Dan Gordon Landscape Architects designs an idyllic outdoor setting for a young family.
REIMAGINING the Past
Patrick Ahearn brings 19th-century character back to an 1850s farmhouse.
Storybook Ending
A collaboration between Found Design Studio and Carpenter & MacNeille transforms this 19th-century cottage into a gracious family home.
CONCRETE COASTAL
SASHYA THIND WARMS CONCRETE WITH WOOD, CREATING CONTEMPORARY INTERIORS THAT FEEL PERFECTLY AT HOME ON THE WATER.
RESORT LIFE
AN ANDOVER BACKYARD IS TRANSFORMED INTO A STAYCATION HAVEN
ALFRESCO LIVING
WILMINGTON-BASED REFINED RENOVATIONS AND ANDOVER-BASED ANDOVER LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BLUR THE LINES IN THIS ANDOVER RENOVATION.
THE ART OF CREATING HOUSES
AUTHOR JOHN R. DASILVA, FAIA OFFERS A DEEP DIVE INTO THE PSD'S SHINGLE-STYLE HOUSES.
ORGANIC MODERN
KASIE DINELLA OF MEND INTERIORS INJECTS A NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME WITH WOOD TONES, ALONG WITH BLUES AND GREENS, TO GIVE IT A FRESH, CLEAN FEEL.
SLUMBER STYLE
INTERIOR DESIGNER BARI LIEBERMAN INTRODUCES COLOR, TEXTURE, AND PATTERN IN THIS BOLD BEDROOM
SUMMER HOUSE
KENNERKNECHT DESIGN GROUP CREATES A TIMELESS NEW ENGLAND AESTHETIC ON THIS SMALL ISLAND 30 MILES OUT TO SEA.