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The airy living room opens onto the secondfloor deck with those expansive water views and many of its furnishings are unexpected finds . Lynn discovered the 1970s Block Island rattan chairs at a home store in Florida . Rod rescued the six-sided , dark wood side table from a recycling center and old lumber that he ’ d saved became the flights of stairs and newel posts . Several of the bedrooms still had furniture when the couple closed on the property , including a sleigh bed on the third floor . Not letting anything to go to waste , Lynn scooped them all up .
Construction on the new 3,400 square-foot house got underway in November 2018 and finished in October 2019 . The modest Cape with its three bedrooms and one bath is now a comfortable five-bed , four-bath beach house for an extended family of eight , including three kids and three grandchildren . “ We had Thanksgiving with our kids ,” Lynn says . She and Rod also spent the warmer months there last summer . Unlike some house building projects that seem plagued with horror stories , this one was seamless . “ There were no surprises ,” Lynn says . “ Everything came out beautifully .” In this Bonnet Shores case , living upside down has proved to be right side up after all . �
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