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Northshore October 2025
The word “renovation” often suggests sweeping changes that strip a house back to its bones. But that doesn’t always have to be the case. Like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, a nondescript 1990s stucco house in Rye, New Hampshire, was reimagined into a shingle-style beauty—without ever being taken down to the studs. The breakfast nook has custom built-in window seats. Maugel DeStefano Architects and CM Ragusa transformed a stucco ranch house into a charming shingle-style home. “A lot of times people think you need dramatic changes to make an impact,” says Alexander Muentener, project manager at Maugel DeStefano Ar
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