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Originally a scullery, this garden room connects to the back of the kitchen. The grooved timber wall conceals a powder room door.

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An aerial view shows the L-shaped layout around the courtyard. Knight anchored one end with a built-in planter, in which Gail wanted an “architectural” tree to be espaliered.

Knight swapped in much more expansive glass doors that wrap a corner and run the length of the basement’s rear room, in order to create better connection at multiple points between the courtyard and the interior.

The design team retained the old supports, which now frame the kitchen. Jessica picked DeVol cabinets and systems for their traditional-meets-streamlined style.

Business analyst Reinhold Windorfer returned to his parents’ 19th-century dairy farm with some 21st-century ideas about how to turn a profit: Sell the cows, overhaul the crumbling farmhouse, and open a pair of vacation rentals for travelers to come visit.

In the living room, a Malm fireplace sits on a yellow powder-coated steel table that matches the bookshelf ladder leading to the loft. Jagoda designed the table with space underneath to store firewood.

Once an inaccessible attic (and essentially “dead space”), soaring ceilings and striking angular lines are now a focal point, geometrically integrated through vertical protrusions and light-funneling skylights.

Although the original layout largely made sense, the low ceilings and choppy spatial divisions inhibited cohesion and flow, according to homeowner Tamara Murray. “The biggest areas of the home that were not working were the segmented family, kitchen, and dining rooms,” she says. “We really wanted to be able to move seamlessly between the rooms.”