Newport home remodel
Fred Albert Newport Home magazine A few years ago, Jill and Barry Martin went shopping for a house in Newport so they could indulge Barry’s passion for sailing. Although the couple loved old houses, they weren’t looking to tackle a makeover so much as a makeunder — Jill’s term for a light, cosmetic touch-up where you slap on a new coat of paint and call it a day. The house they ended up buying was not one of those. The Queen Anne–style residence in Newport’s Kay-Catherine neighborhood had been remodeled several times over the past 130+ years, and spent much of its life as a ...