Above: Formerly the family dining room, the bar was transformed into a vintage European pub, with faux limestone walls, rich cabinetry, stained glass inserts, and a lintel invitation reading “Pax Intrantibus” (“Peace to those who enter”). Opposite page: Satisfying the husband’s initial objectives, the second-floor master suite was vastly expanded to include a huge master bath, room-size closet, and a sitting area in the fi eside bedroom, furnished with comfy overstuffed armchairs from Expressions.
design, however, are evident in her arrangement of the furniture and choice of several new complementary pieces. Expanding the former music room for a new family room was far more complex and required meticulous integration with the home’s existing interior and exterior features, including the weeping brick masonry and architectural windows. Forney’s masterful plan included a stunning box-beam ceiling to conceal the support beams necessary for expansion of the second-floor master suite. To duplicate the windows,
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she specified fi ed and operable glass doors with elliptical transoms, then added a fi eplace with marble surround and seamlessly matched the home’s existing oak floo ing. Enlarging the dimensions of this wing also affected the symmetry of both the front and rear elevations. Forney solved this problem by adding a window on the family-room wall facing the street, decorative oval windows on the upper story and an amazingly realistic faux limestone “entry” on the exterior wall adjoining the patio.
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