WIDE-OPEN SPACE

The connected kitchen-family room arrangement is meant for entertaining, and not just within their combined, 50-foot-long expanse. Effectively separated by a columned passage to maintain a human scale, both rooms provide ready access to the outdoors to encourage indoor-outdoor interplay. The exposed (if decorative) wood and metal trusses in the family room give a contemporary nod to the home’s Gothic roots.

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Task Lighting

Though daylight and a chandelier fixture provide ample ambient light, cooks in this large kitchen appreciate the in-cabinet and especially the undercabinet lamps from Progress Lighting (model #P7022-30EBWB) that throw light where they need it, when they need it. The fixtures are part of an energy-efficient lighting package in which at least 60 percent of the home’s lighting (inside and out) is LED, linear fluorescent, or compact fluorescent fixtures. www.progresslighting.com.