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"Proud Heritage\nA 200-Year-Old Barn is Born Again as a Designer's Own Coastal Retreat\nEllen Denisevich-Grickis found an 18th-century barn in Ontario, Canada, and had it relocated to a four-acre plot in Rhode Island, where she renovated it for use as a summer house for herself and her husband, Bill Grickis, and their two daughters. A vast wildflower meadow precedes the 3,000-square-foot residence's entrance.\nPart of the barn's transformation included sheathing the fa\u00E7ade in stone\u2014an homage to local farm buildings.\nThe designer's aim for the living area was to \"expose the monumental wood skeleton, keeping it simple yet powerful.\" On the wall behind the leather sofa, from Natuzzi, is a 2004 oil by Theodore Tihansky. Chandeliers, Studio Steel.\nAlthough the installation of a fireplace in the dining area required some rearranging of the barn's structural supports, \"most of the posts and beams were left in their original position,\" Denisevich-Grickis says. The plank walls were finished with a white milk paint\u2014one of the interior's many \"green\" design features.\nThe upper level's haylofts were turned into a sitting room and bedrooms, with an iron-framed bridge in the middle to link them. What wood is not original to the barn was reclaimed from historical sources.\nFloral motifs and vibrant color brighten the master bedroom.\nInterconnected with the living and dining areas, the modern kitchen has floors of concrete mixed with chips of mirror, mother-of-pearl, abalone shell and sea glass. Hanging above the Shaker-style island is a Murano glass chandelier. Viking dishwasher, range and hood, at Abt.com.\nA log arbor\u2014soon to be enveloped in flowering vines\u2014spans nearly the width of the shingled rear fa\u00E7ade, providing shelter for an outdoor dining room.\nThe designer and her dog, Hope.\nOutside the kitchen is a large covered terrace, the frame of which was taken from an 18th-century house. Denisevich-Grickis chose an antique church window for the gable end. Locally made Adirondack chairs sit by the fireplace."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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