inspiration
Situated off the home’s main hallway, the McCarrons’ spacious kitchen anchors the first-floor living spaces.
A Home that Brings the Outside In See the beautiful, open-concept first floor on
the Music Hall’s Kitchen Tour,
rescheduled for September 27.
T
he focal point of Ann Marie and Bill
Featured on this year’s twenty-ninth
McCarron’s light-filled, first-floor
annual Kitchen Tour, presented by the Music
living area is hard to miss: a spectacular
Hall in Portsmouth (see sidebar on page 81),
waterfront view of several small, rocky islands
the McCarrons’ New Castle home was built
in the Piscataqua River separating New Castle
in 2012. The couple replaced the original
from Portsmouth. The house, which is the
small home on the property because zoning
Massachusetts couple’s summer home, is ori-
constraints and proximity to a tidal buffer
ented toward the water. “Our goal was to bring
made renovations to the existing structures
the outside in,” Ann Marie says. “The kitchen
difficult. The design by architect Jeff Demers,
flows into the dining and living spaces, and
of Jeff Demers Design in Portsmouth, accom-
the back of the house is all glass.”
modates the home’s narrow, linear lot by
By Debbie Kane | Photography by John W. Hession 76 | New Hampshire Home
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