A New York City Couple Embrace Retirement in a Converted Dairy Farm Upstate

Worrell Yeung creates a dark-green compound that feels private despite a busy road nearby.
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Sharmila Sen has always had a penchant for renovation projects. "I think I should have been an architect," the photographer jokes. Upon encountering a dilapidated barn in North Salem, New York, she became convinced that the structure and its main house could be transformed into a home for her and her husband, neurosurgeon Chandra Sen. They were planning on retiring from the bustle of Manhattan to the tranquility just a few miles north in Westchester County.

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