How-To: Giant Windows
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Self-taught designer Tom Givone resuscitated his 19th-century homestead by inserting a wall of skyscraper glass beneath a gabled extension on his wood-framed farmhouse. The spare but cozy kitchen now has a larger-than-life window onto the surrounding scenery. Photo by Mark Mahaney.
Tom Givone's current weekend abode, nicknamed the Floating Farmhouse, is—so far—his capstone project, a synthesis of personal taste, material experimentation, and historically sensitive restoration: a living laboratory for how to bring the vernacular past into the present.