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The bar features patterned tiles. Its dimensions were calculated to ensure that not one tile would have to be cut. It is equipped with a sink, wine fridge and dishwasher. There is a full kitchen elsewhere in the home (not pictured). From the designer’s sketch, an artisan from Padua, Italy, made a cupboard out of old, insect-eaten oak. It stands behind the counter. “I met [the craftsman] for the first time at the market, and I noticed that, besides antiques, he also sells new furniture made from old wood. The cupboard was made to size with traditional Italian techniques. He didn’t even use modern mechanisms for the sliding doors — they slide along a track sawed into the wood, slicked with fragrant wax. The bar stools are also [this craftsman’s] work,” Zhdanova says.
Almost a third of the construction budget went toward restoring the stone walls, inside and out. On the upside, the team managed to preserve the stone masonry in almost every room. It also was able to find old bricks and missing shingles. The living room is one of the most spacious rooms in the house. Its highlights are the bar and the vaulted ceilings. “The builders told us that this is where people used to keep horses and cows,” Zhdanova says. “Along one of the walls was a stone ledge that the animals used to eat from. During the renovation, we found bowl-shaped pots and hung them from the ceiling — they would originally have been filled with feed.”
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