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mediums. “I’m just organized. When we buy
a place, it is like a business and we get up in
the morning and hit the Áoor running. :e are
hands-on people, but we just can’t do it anymore.
And we don’t touch electric or plumbing.
But I am all eyes and I can see if it is not
the best work. You want the very best people.
We have redone everything in this house.”
Helping them through the process was a crew
of six carpenters and “the best painter ever,”
she adds.
PAINTINGS GRACE HOME
Peggy also took care of the design, choosing
colors and switch plates while dealing with
the diͿerent vendors. Her paintings can be
found throughout the home. None of the cabinets
in the large kitchen had knobs or handles.
Charlie calls them “pulls,” and he is proud of
the smooth action of the drawers, using magnets
to slowly close at the end as if by magic.
The couple knew what they needed to do to
fight oͿ the corrosive salt air from the Atlantic.
Sots were sealed oͿ to Neep moisture out
of the attic, and two dehumidifiers were installed.
Windows were sealed and now do not
open, which is irrelevant, as there are outside
balconies in front of all but two rooms on the
ocean side.
“You don’t want windows to open on the
ocean,” Charlie says. >>
The wine cellar door was originally from a French chateau. It can cool hundreds of bottles of
wine to the precise temperature.
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