The Living Spaces
Down-to-earth homeowners get a new route , from the garden to their table .
Alex Millard jokes that he and his wife are the only people who grow legitimate plants in their basement . The pair start their heirloom seeds inside and , when the weather turns warm , they transfer the seedlings to their 600-squarefoot garden out back .
“ We have a real love of gardening ,” Millard says .
Their bounty feeds the family much of the year but , for more than a decade , their route from the garden to the kitchen was made complicated by a series of rooms and ill-placed , back-toback hallways . So the Millards tapped Brewster Thornton Group Architects to turn their maze into a direct pipeline to produce .
“ It was really a collaborative effort ,” says principal architect
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46 RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY l MARCH 2022