MISSION MEETS MODERN

“I love the indoor-outdoor space,” she says. “It lets so much more light into the kitchen and the hallway. I really wanted to maximize that since the house is a U-shape. Even though it’s not an open floor plan, it feels like it is.”

She added about 1,000 square feet to the back of the house, turned the backyard guest house into a garage and added extra storage space.

Attached to the garage, she added a room for her red Labrador, Tabasco, complete with a couch and a shower.

“He, like many Labs, likes to chew things when I’m not home,” she says, explaining that the room acts as his very plush crate.

Like most homeowners, she spent the big bucks in the kitchen. Her cabinets are made in Brazil, a product she often recommends to her clients.

“This is my home but I also operate my business out of here, so I really wanted to showcase some of the companies I work with so people could touch and see,” she explains.

She was thriftier in the rest of the house. She furnished the home in her personal style, which is “eclectic, but overall it still feels very modern,” she says.

She borrowed some vintage finds from her grandparents and combined them with new items. In the guest bedroom, she used her grandmother’s old chest and a table that was once in the lobby of a hotel her great-grandparents owned. In the corner is a tall music box from 1894, and her shelves are adorned with pottery from her grandparents’ time in Alaska.

Her home is a testament to her skills as an interior designer. In the office — which is her “main hub,” she says — she turned what was once giant porch arches into big, wide windows, which make the room’s elaborate chandelier sparkle.

“I got it at market. It’s from California but because it’s made of glass they didn’t want to take it back,” she says. “So it’s a $4,700 fixture, but I got it for $500. I have a lot of things in this house that are total steals.”

In the master bathroom she knew she wanted a vanity with two sinks and a separate water closet, but it’s the shower-bathtub combo that’s truly striking. In order to maximize the space, she put both the bathtub and the shower behind a glass wall to create a “wet area.”

“If I didn’t have my design background I wouldn’t even know to layout a space like this,” she says, “although another designer might not have come up with this layout.”

Based on its charming exterior, guests at Green’s home are often surprised by its expansive interior.

“I like that,” she says. “From the street it looks very unassuming, which is what I wanted.”

Ultimately, everything in the home is just what she wanted. While wrestling with the Landmark Commission to get her renovations approved was a major headache at times, as predicted, she was equally committed to preserving the home’s integrity. It was a messy process, but in the end she and the Landmark Commission found common ground.

“They couldn’t believe what it looks like now compared to the condition it was in before,” she says, adding that it was worth the myriad headaches. “I don’t know if I’ll ever move from this house. It has my thumbprints in every corner. It’s exactly what I wanted.”