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Northshore October 2025
Built in the mid-1960s, this Colonial-style home in Reading has seen its share of improvements and additions. After living there for nine years, Bryn Panee Burkhart and Eric Burkhart were ready to revamp the kitchen and, with encouragement from designer Leah Hook, reconfigure the layout of the rooms around it. “The kitchen had ended up in the center of the house and had openings to five other rooms,” the principal of Gray Oak Studio says. “It was almost a glorified hallway.” To decrease the flow of traffic through the already action-packed space, Hook knew she had to close at least one of the access points. Initially, the Burkh
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