<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=41qhPf_1GVzgvox00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=41qhPf_1GVzgvox00" width="1200" height="800" >After Joe retired from his job in Texas, he and his wife, Terri, wanted to return to Northeast Ohio — but the former Brunswick residents only had a small window to find a home while visiting the area. A friend had heard about a house in Richfield going on the market — it was a Cape Cod. “My childhood growing up, if you would have asked me, Where do you want to live the rest of your life? It would be New England,” says Terri. “The house looks like somebody took it off Nantucket and plopped it in Richfield.”The couple bought it in 2022. While it had the quintessential Cape Cod aesthetic on the exterior, the interior was outdated, with little color or variety within the 7,000-square-foot space. “There was good bones but not good window dressing,” says Terri. The couple brought in Anne Gorey, vice president of interior design at Chez-Del Interiors, to redesign the entire home with a more vibrant look and help sharpen their vision. “My problem whenever I design is I gravitate toward what I like, and I like everything. I like farmhouse. I like antiques. I like modern, so I get lost,” Terri says. “This house is a little bit of everything cohesively.” Terri and Gorey chose an aesthetic. “I would consider it more classic, timeless kind of design and then with some modern elements,” Gorey says. The color palette is earth tones — neutrals with greens and blues. “One of the primary colors is soft green because we were trying to bring the outside in — a cozy feel,” she says. The kitchen was gutted mostly because the upper cabinets extended to the black soapstone countertops, cutting away at prep space. A contractor discovered the soapstone is homogeneous, so it was easy to seamlessly add pieces and raise all upper cabinets. The new backsplash is a natural marble subway tile with dark, dramatic veining. The upper cabinets feature upper transom windows with waterfall glass. The appliances are new, including a 48-inch stainless-steel fridge. Swivel Cleo barstools in sea glass add a pop of color, and their velvet performance fabric increases usability. “I wanted the interior to look elevated to match the house, but I didn’t want to be afraid to use it,” Terri says. The adjoining great room also has performance fabric on the facing track arm Bernhardt horizontal slub-textured sofas. Nearby twin swivel chairs have a tone-on-tone geometric pattern. A Bernhardt table with a bronze iron base and natural travertine top separates the sofas while a stone-topped end table with an iron chain link base separates the Wesley Hall swivel chairs. A pair of mottled green porcelain urn lamps on a sofa table carry through the colors of the leafy backyard beyond the windows that feature stunning plantation shutters — some windows had them already, and they were added to others. Those stayed untouched — as did all the millwork on the ceilings, including intricate corbels — aside from a paint job. To simplify the five-column living room, they took out three columns that weren’t load-bearing and squared the remaining two up. Throughout, the hardwood floors were re-stained with a walnut-inspired stain. A nook that originally housed a baby grand piano now has custom curved window seats and bookshelves overlooking one of the home’s patios, complete with a new stone outdoor kitchen and firepit area. An oversized tufted cocoa leather cocktail ottoman with an open metal base came from Texas. Two button-tufted Chesterfield sofas in a performance linen are accented with throw pillows featuring a mosaic pattern that ties into the hand-knotted, rich, earth-toned Surya rug. There’s also a whitewashed coffee table and houndstooth wingbacked chairs with nailhead trim. Columns topped with pinecones were squared off on the nearby foyer staircase, which has a new neutral two-step Masland runner. “It adds a dramatic kind of entrance,” Gorey says. Off that area is the formal dining room, with deep aubergine walls. The newly made dining set complements the farmhouse-style one with turned legs in the eat-in kitchen, which showcases a feature brick wall. A crystal chandelier with hanging fruit was kept from the original homeowners, as were many other fixtures. A Hooker Furniture hutch with interior lighting has a contrasting back and dark framed wooden front that makes China pop. Down the hall, find a three-season sunroom with a two-story ceiling featuring three rows of white windows: small upper rectangular windows, porthole middle windows with decorative mullions inside — a Cape cod signature — and lower floor-to-ceiling windows. Existing white rope black-and-white striped trimmed curtains go with that coastal theme, as does the Summer Classics black wicker furniture with off-white performance upholstery, botanical soft green pillows, a painted black-and-white checkerboard floor and dark stained, textured cedar walls. “We tried to play off that nautical feel,” says Gorey. It adjoins a new outdoor living space with dining, a water feature and a stone fireplace with seating. The office is stucco painted in Sherwin-Williams’ Waterloo. The columned fireplace was squared off and got a new tile surround. The desk is accented by two intriguing Wesley Hall bobbin chairs with rounded wooden arms and upholstery in contrasting patterns with a velvet base. Nesting hammered metal mirrored-top tables separate the chairs. A nearby hall powder room stuns with a chest that was converted into a vanity with a granite countertop and an undermount sink in front of a bronze foil Thybony geometric wall covering and a metal mirror and sconces from Currey &amp; Company. The neighboring first-floor owner’s suite got a major transformation. Originally, the bathroom had transom cabinets lining the ceiling and vanities lining the walls, along with a built-in tub surrounded by four columns. Now there’s a freestanding oval soaking tub in front of a bay window with plantation shutters, his and hers quartz custom vanities crowned by round oversized Currey &amp; Company mirrors and an elegant new Uttermost teardrop seeded glass chandelier. The shower is now much larger and has natural travertine subway tile, a niche and floor with hexagon tile and a quartz seat. The Fabricut wall covering in Vane adds a soft botanical feel.“It’s calming. It’s serene. It’s spa-like,” says Terri. The owner’s bedroom’s stone walls were replaced, and now there’s a feature wall with wainscoting painted in Sherwin-Williams Retreat, which Terri loves. “I like bold colors,” Terri says. There are four bedrooms upstairs — one for each of their grown kids when they visit and one for guests. Terri loves the bathroom off the green room, which has a black-and-white retro floor inspired by a vintage one she showed Gorey a picture of. It’s white square tiles with black diamond joists. The renovation took most of 2023 for the interior and then the exterior stretched into 2024 and 2025 as they painted the brown exterior in Benjamin Moore’s Soot, added pewter fixtures, redid the driveway and landscaping and added outdoor living spaces. Overall, Terri is thrilled with the results. “It came out better than I could have imagined,” she says. “You go into these things with a vision of I want it to look like this, but how do you get it out of your head and into reality? … It’s exactly what I wanted.”</div></body>

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After Joe retired from his job in Texas, he and his wife, Terri, wanted to return to Northeast Ohio — but the former Brunswick residents only had a small window to find a home while visiting the area. A friend had heard about a house in Richfield going on the market — it was a Cape Cod.

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