Backyard Barn Conversion With Cozy Cottage Style in Cambridge, MA
This once-woeful storage space shared a lot with its owner’s full-time, circa-1846 home. When she got ready to downsize, it was high time to rehab and convert it to a retirement dream house. The clever renovation and restoration preserved original details like timber posts and knee braces, antique floorboards and interior beadboard siding, then added industrial steel cables, modern conveniences and laid-back style.


Photo By: Raj Das, Express Remodeling Group
Photo By: Raj Das, Express Remodeling Group
Photo By: Raj Das, Express Remodeling Group
Photo By: Raj Das, Express Remodeling Group
Photo By: Raj Das, Express Remodeling Group
Photo By: Raj Das, Express Remodeling Group
Backyard Barn Conversion
Cottage Kitchen With Wooden Island and Shiplapped Walls
Cottage Living Room With Exposed Beams
Staircase With Skylight and Tongue and Groove Accent Wall
Cottage Bedroom Features a Vintage Rug and Large Windows
This cottage-style bedroom features both a skylight and French doors that open the space to the lush outdoors. A colorful vintage rug brings warm tones to the bright white room. It is joined in this effort by an antique wood-and-iron sewing table and a dark wood dresser, the latter perfectly nestled between a pair of built-in cabinets.