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“Those three separate spaces … were all too small for that size and that scale of a house, especially for the type of entertaining that he liked to do,” Kilgore says. He combined the three rooms into one by replac ing the load-bearing walls

casement windows where overhead kitchen cabine try once hung. The lost storage was gained in the island and walk-in butler’s pantry. The latter was cre ated by enclosing the eat in area at one end of the kitchen. “It gave [me] the opportunity to have a sec ond sink and dishwasher for overflow,” Steere says. It also gave his wine refrig erator, long banished to the basement, a proper home. Kilgore replaced the sliding doors to the deck

with a single door and extended under-counter cabinetry along a wall in the main kitchen. “[Brian] liked to have this long stretch of uninter rupted countertop to lay out food and catering dishes,” Kilgore explains. An Alair employee turned an outer wall of the but ler’s pantry into a kitchen focal point by using a heavily veined marble tile to lay a herringbone-pat terned counter-to-ceiling

backsplash. The kitchen and dining room were painted white and finished to complement the con temporary family room decor. Old kitchen tile and honey-toned dining and living room hardwoods were replaced with the same engineered flooring in the family room and foyer. And kitchen cabine try was ordered in a gray paint several shades darker than the family room walls and topped with light gray-veined white quartz.

between them with a rustic cherry post and

hand-hewn beams similar to the fireplace mantle and flooded the space with light by adding white-vinyl

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