Combined kitchen, dining room, and living room with exposed light-toned exposed timber supports, light wood floors, large light wood dining table with a red teapot, cutting board with a loaf of bread, and floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors in a home in Caen, Normandy, France, renovated by Jean-Baptiste Barache of the Paris-based architecture firm Arba.

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Most of the furnishings are secondhand or otherwise creatively sourced. The desk in Léontine’s bedroom was picked up at a technical school in Caen, where it was a cabinetmaking student’s final project. The used dining table was bought online, and half of the chairs came from a Parisian bar that was being renovated, the other half from a charity flea market. The 1930s armchair in the living area, colorfully reupholstered, belonged to Isabelle’s grandparents.