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A coat of white paint lightens up the scheme, as do the polished travertine floor tiles.

This fireplace is lined with the same bricks as the plinth, so there’s “a relationship between new and old,” explains Dovey.

The light-filled kitchen features professional-grade, stainless-steel appliances.

Now, floor to ceiling slats define the staircase. The pendant light is from Flos.

One of the largest construction challenges was the plumbing in the showers. "After our bathrooms were finally completed, we found water leakage coming out the base of both the showers," says Elaine. "Nothing seemed to solve the problem. It turned out it was a faulty plumbing job, so we had to open up the showers, fix the plumbing, and redo all the tadelakt." This set their timeline back by months.

“We removed all those walls so that when you walk in, you have these expanded views out into the landscape. We opened up the living area, and made the kitchen virtually three times larger than it was,” says French.

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This rational European ethos motivates Bosch appliances' design down to the most minute details. For meals that require large and small pots, the FlexInduction feature on Bosch Benchmark induction cooktops combines two distinct cooking zones into one contiguous area, providing total fluidity of movement.

Bosch appliances' modern European look works flexibly in many kitchen types, from transitional to contemporary.

Monory’s friends, the Leclercs, join her for an alfresco meal on the patio. They’re seated at a custom-made table on Fermob’s Luxembourg chairs.