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The bedroom walls are painted TK.

Mystery novels line the shelves that conceal the hidden door, hinting that there's more than meets the eye.

The sculptural chimney breast and 60-inch void skylight accentuate the height of the room.

After: The soaring new living and dining space benefits from an abundance of natural light from every side, and they spent a lot of time trying to find the best lighting for the kitchen. The final choice: long, narrow copper pendants from Denmark suspended by ultra thin wires to not disrupt the visual flow of the room.

After: The living room overlooks the great room below. Now when you walk in the house, you can see clear out to the trees in the back—an idea sparked by an interior designer friend who commented that the most important aspect of a design is what you see when you walk in the front door.

“For the first six months we lived here, I would force Ryan to drag a chair into the kitchen to sit with me while I cooked so I wouldn’t be lonely,” says Rory. In the new layout, the kitchen an dliving room are integrated seamlessly.

A built-in bench provides seating for the 10-foot-long dining table, which Lanigan found at a store in Berkley that was going out of business. “It almost feels like it grows out of the floor,” says Lanigan. (The fireplace tile here is original.)

The green box is lined with tambor strips to give it texture and interest.

The countertop is a custom Concrete Collaborative terrazzo, and the colored flecks nod to the wall tiles.

"We created the built-in ipe dining banquette with an elongated seat to run the length of the pool for added seating and to give it a more social feel,

The pool was kept, but the spa was enlarged and a new electric heater was installed.

"The client had a vision of this space feeling very built-in,

A domed copper light fixture by Atelier001 hangs above the dining table.

The kitchen acts as the family hub, its multicolored surfaces anchored by a black tile backsplash, sprinkled with dots of uncolored, earth-toned tile.

The renovation added a new foyer in the place of its front porch, and expanded the attic-like upstairs into a full second floor.

Seamus rebuilt the front porch to be more historically accurate, and the couple painted everything in Pink Ground by Farrow & Ball, except the porch ceiling, which has Little Boy Blue by Sherwin Williams.

This Greenkub studio blends naturally into the green garden.