Focal Point: 20 Tailored Interiors That Inspire

January // February 2024

published by: Maine Home + Design

Excerpt:

Howard’s Hideout

Built in the 1880s, this residence was cramped, structurally sagging, and overrun by mice—not to mention its three different floor heights and a center stairwell interrupting the entire flow. Shannon Richards and the team at Hay Runner developed a plan to stabilize the house, level the floors, and bring as much light into the space as possible despite the neighboring buildings on either side. Removing aspects of the structure and slowly adding them back posed a challenge throughout the project, as did the aging home’s mix-and-match building materials and nearly 140 years of patchwork fixes. ..….READ MORE.

Photographer: Heidi Kirn
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