…“A lot of what we were doing was knitting the house together,” says Princeton architect, Marc Brahaney. A breakfast room addition that adds light to the kitchen and is formal enough to be seen from the dining room now links the two rooms, instead of a low servant hallway. French doors open on to a new raised terrace with a walkway that links to other terraces and to the arched doorway of a second working sunroom, above.

Lasley, a Princeton construction veteran, says they went to three stone yards to find just the right combination so that it’s impossible to tell where the existing house ends and the addition begins. This grand old home needed more than a skylight, so Brahaney chose a lantern top to add indoor and outdoor architectural detail….

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