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The house where she lived in Brussels was often dark, so Judith Pierpont took
a cue from that experience and included lots of large windows, including a
barn-style indoor window that connects the kitchen and staircase and allows
light to travel from one room to the next, depending on the time of day.
The Barn at Wolsfeld Woods started as a 1,500 square-foot rambler built in the 1950s on property adjacent to a
wooded nature preserve in Orono.
By JIM BLJCHTA, Star Tribune
Last update: November 14, 2008 - 3:15 PM
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The kitchen layout— including sinks and work stations with room for several people— is similar to one the
owner had in her apartment overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
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Beirut, Lebanon. Brussels, Belgium. Edinburgh, Scotland. London. Judith Pierpont has lived all over the world,
so when she decided to tackle a whole-house makeover in the Midwest-- she splits her time between Chicago
and Minneapolis-- she applied some of the lessons she learned in those many exotic places to a little house in
Orono that's now known as the Barn at Wolsfeld Woods. The project began as a 1,500 square-foot rambler built
in the 1950s on property adjacent to a wooded nature preserve in Orono, but she transformed it into a 3,800-
square-foot house with gambrel-style rooflines and 18-foot ceilings that suggest it was once a barn -- a notion she
developed while living in a guest house that had once been a stable while her 1870s main house on Long Lake
was being refurbished.
Pierpont, who runs a design business called Palace Parcels, tackled this project not as a place to live, but as a spec
house.
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Debbie McNally, RE/Max Results,has the listing. She's at 612-388-1790.
JIM BUCHTA
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