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and mud-room entrances, the couple tracked down arched Gothic pieces from a monastery and bell tower in New York, since they were “consistent with the staircase spindles” in the home’s main entryway. In 2008, just when the restoration seemed complete, the couple was presented with the opportunity to purchase the neighboring property, allowing them to add a pool, a formal garden and an outbuilding to their existing landscaping.
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They quickly decided to renovate the 20-year-old home on the newly acquired property so that its design would be more in keeping with the older home. Since that structure would be used primarily for entertaining, it needed a pretty major overhaul—“we removed as many walls as we could without the house falling in,” Tammi explains. When all was said and done, thanks to the guidance of contractor Scotty Smith, the “pool house” had morphed into a three-bedroom home with three full and three half baths, an upstairs and downstairs master,