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LEFT
Herringbone
floor: BFC
Flooring &
Design;
goop chair:
CB2; glass
coffee
table and
wood side
table: vintage
market-
place finds;
fireplace:
I-XL Building
Products;
fireplace
stone:
Eldorado
Stone;
fabricator:
Jade Stone
RIGHT
Custom plant
wall by
Brittany and
Brett Finnie
BELOW
Closet
cabinetry:
Kitch; closet
hardware:
Richelieu
Hardware;
bedside lamp:
CB2
The Finnies are now co-owners of Outline
Homes, a design-build and realty firm, and
experts in tricky renovations. And while they
didn’t knock the old house down, they stripped
it down to its studs, which revealed the piece-
meal building process of over a century ago.
“Some lumber was actually two-by-four-inch fir,”
Brett says. “Other pieces looked like they came
from dismantled barns — nothing was the same
material.”
One previous owner had extended the
living room by about 10 feet, and the Finnies
converted a storage area into a bathroom, but
otherwise the original dimensions remain. This
means they downsized to 1,500 square feet
from their 1,800-square-foot home. But with two
young kids, they wanted two bathrooms upstairs,
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