This Old House

Fit for Generations to Come

ROOF SHINGLES: GAF

TRIM: AZEK

WINDOWS: Marvin

SIDING SHINGLES: Maibec

SOD: Sodco

KITCHEN PENDANT LIGHTS: Visual Comfort

KITCHEN CABINETRY: Premier Custom Built

PORCELAIN COUNTERTOP, BACKSPLASH, HOOD COVER: Crossville

CABINET HARDWARE: Armac Martin

KITCHEN AND BATH SINKS: Kohler

BUTCHER BLOCK: Grothouse TOEKICK AND CABINET

LIGHTING: Häfele

INTERIOR DOORS: Baird Brothers Fine Hardwoods

With party guests clustered around the kitchen island and their young daughter twirling from room to room in a princess costume, Molly and John pause to take in the scene. “We love this house,” Molly says of the rambling, three-story Shingle-style home they bought in 2018 and brought back to life with the help of TOH home builder Charlie Silva, his crew, and a handful of talented local craftsmen. “As soon as we saw it, we thought, ‘This is a house that could get us to leave Boston,’” she says.

Dressed in ashen cedar shingles, the once stately house had been built as a summer home, used by generations of families escaping to the seaside town now known as Manchester-by-the Sea, just 30 miles from the couple’s apartment in the city. It was this legacy

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