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HOME After Joanne and Bill Zeolie found the perfect house in Amherst’s Historic District, they enlisted a talented team of designers and craftspeople to help make it their own.
A few years ago, long-time Amherst residents Joanne and Bill Zeolie began thinking about moving from the town’s outskirts to its historic district. With one son in college and another in high school, the time seemed right to move to a smaller property in their favorite neighborhood—Amherst’s charming historic village, where you can walk to the store, town hall, library and village green with its many happenings. The home they eventually found was an 1850s farmhouse with a long footprint of connected, sunlit rooms. “The long layout worked for us,” Joanne says. “And the sunlight in this house is amazing. I was told that this style of home, built as a Greek Revival with additions over time, is known as a sun liner, because you can see the sun shine in each room throughout the day.” A deep back yard was another plus, as Bill—who owns the home and garden center Bedford Fields in Bedford—is an avid gardener.
A new team for an old home When the Zeolies bought the house in 2018, it was in good shape from a structural standpoint, but needed updating in terms of paint, finish and flow. To that
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The spacious kitchen— with its natural light and areas for relaxing, eating and preparing meals—is the heart of the Zeolies’ home. The signature green and blue hues that appear throughout the house are visible in the kitchen table chairs and various decorative elements, such as the vases on the island.
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