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"Rethinking the Barn\nAfter 20 Years, a Martha's Vineyard Residence is Just Right\nCraig Wiggins and Deborah Colitti Wiggins bought three acres on Martha's Vineyard in the 1980s. Architect David Howard found a circa 1850 cattle barn in New Hampshire, shipped it to the site and converted it into a residence by attaching a matching structure.\nThe barn's beams were left exposed, while the walls were eliminated to make a great room, encompassing the living area, dining area and kitchen. Greg Jordan was responsible for the interiors. Cowtan Tout floral print. Rug, Patterson, Flynn Martin.\nWatercolors by Colitti Wig-gins's mother, Carole Russell Colitti, were placed in driftwood frames and hung in the entrance hall. \"My mother started creating art in her 50s,\" says Colitti Wiggins. \"Her work gives the house a homespun look, a family connection.\"\nThe dining table occupies the space where the kitchen once stood. \"We removed a built-in booth and expanded the kitchen to the rear,\" Jordan says. The 1990 artwork over the fireplace, Wedding Party, is by June Moss. The chair cushion fabric is from Cowtan Tout.\n\"I think the great room is like a wonderful hotel lobby in New York, since it has such a large volume but also intimate gathering spaces,\" says Howard. \"I love barns because they're a reflection of the past even when they're being renewed for the future.\"\n\"Originally it was going to be the children's room, but it just became a room to retreat to,\" Howard says of the family room. A window seat and a porch were added to the room, which is near the master bedroom on the first floor. Sisal rug, Patterson, Flynn Martin.\nThe master bedroom. Nineteenth-century engravings of Dutch, Swedish and English sailing vessels are over the bed. \"Even when the house was so rustic it didn't have heating, we were still working toward what it has become,\" the designer explains."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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