The new cottage designed by Bonin Architects &
Associates for clients Peter and Chasity fits right in with their Victorian neighborhood
of Blodgett Landing, Newbury, NH. New
Hampshire Home magazine featured this open concept home in its July 2012 issue.
An excerpt of the article “Building a Better Cottage” by
Clare Kittredge:
CLIMBING ART
Inside, the home’s artery is
the beautiful winding, open staircase that’s visible from one end of the house
to the other.
“It’s not your typical
enclosed stair because the house is narrow and there’s so much travel between
the floors,” Architect Jeremy Bonin explains. “It didn’t make sense not to celebrate the fact
that it’s a tall, narrow home. Since they will use it so often, it
needed to be a design focal point.”
Coiling through the home, the
stairs benefit from windows on two sides for the entire height of the house.
This means the look of the staircase changes throughout the day as the sun hits
in from different angles.
“The stairs are kind of
floating in the space,” Chasity says. “It’s like a work of art.”
But it’s not a delicate work
of art. With many children running up and down at one time, the staircase takes
a lot of beating. “If the kids have their friends over, sometimes they can have
fifteen kids running up and down the stairs,” Chasity notes.
Read more at New Hampshire Home magazine online.
