A cozy abode on Portland’s West End
Every home has a cozy, tucked-away place — an upstairs reading nook, perhaps, or a sunny attic corner. Now imagine your whole house is that place. The circa-1830 childhood abode of former U.S. House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed is a sliver of a home sandwiched between taller buildings in Portland’s West End. But it feels sublimely private, thanks to its sideways orientation, with a gable end facing the street. As for the snug feeling inside, that’s due to a doting renovation by homeowners Vivek Bandhu and Lauri Gibson, who revived a house so worn that some of its walls gaped to the laths. “We could get our fingers into it and mold it,” Gibson says. “And so we did.”
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