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re-wired and re-plumbed; air-conditioning has been installed at the
request of the buyers. The gallery, originally three feet wide is now
nearly six feet wide; gallery ceiling was raised from 7 feet to 8.6 feet.
Overhead cross beams have been added “just for looks.” All bath-
rooms are done in Carrara marble.
Outside: Trees in small orchard include a plum, pear, and fig; there is
also a bird bath and a fountain. The simulated stone surround exterior
features a veneer of local crushed limestone put on either concrete block
substrate, plaster, or other material. And each block is textured (either
saw cut or chipped on site, all slightly different, and very hard to detect
from real blocks of limestone). Iron doors were purchased from the An-
tique Cooperative in Summerland.
Roof & Ceilings: The entire top of the roof above the kitchen-family room
was removed to create the volume trussed ceiling. The trusses are load
bearing and necessary to support the heavy imported reclaimed tile roof
from France. The rest of the house remains flat-roofed. Most of the ceilings
inside are approximately 9 feet; the kitchen-family room nearly 12 feet.
The former living room featured wall-to-wall carpeting, a flat open-beamed
ceiling, and aluminum casement windows and doors
The transformation required the Sorrells to convert the living room into a
French Country kitchen by raising the roof and adding crossbeams, chang-
ing all the aluminum windows and doors into handsome wooden French
doors and windows, installing manufactured old-growth European oak
flooring, and adding an elegant “Ferrari-red” Bertozzoni gas range, a stone
cantilevered hood and center counter, along with altering what had been
a bee-hive fireplace into a more countrified sandstone “working” fireplace
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