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Northshore October 2025
A young couple with three daughters loved almost everything about their 1904 Tudor home in Manchester-by-the-Sea. The problem was the kitchen and adjoining family room. “Neither space had been touched in many, many years, and both were dilapidated, dark and a tad depressing,” notes the wife. In addition to little natural light, despite three windows and a French door, the kitchen had poor artificial light. It lacked storage, had almost no flow, and was saddled with too much cheerless, brown wood, including dark parquet flooring, two beautiful but somber chestnut barn doors separating the living room from the kitchen, and a massive, cu
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