The woodwork is quarter-sawn oak, the living room floors are made of vintage barn planks, complete with old nail and burn holes, and the two fireplaces are made of fieldstone. Stained-glass windows are themed around nature. Horse motifs—including the 18th-century weathervane in the entrance hall, the iron mare that prances across the sunroom's fireplace, on the fabric that covers the library footstool and window seat and the embroidery that decorates the terrycloth skirt of a bathroom slipper chair—pay homage to the stables the couple maintains on their more formal American Colonial estate in suburban Boston.  read more >