Antique piano with dark olive green wainscoting wall paneling and a brown velvet couch.
The bright, reflective surface amplifies natural light and bathes the interior in a warm glow even when the New England sun isn’t cooperating.
Sheets of unframed glass fill the spaces between the building’s operable windows and the sloping eave of the roof, giving the house, as architect Alan Organschi puts it, “the feel of coming apart at the seams—of surfaces unhinged.”
Suzanne and Brooks Kelley at the back of their 1,100-square-foot guest cottage.