"The views are amazing, but it's cold in the winter and hot in the summer because of all the windows," says Boardman. "They're so boring."īut after living in the home, which was designed by architect John Nickols based on a plan published in the 1937 book The Modern House in England, the couple quickly became converts to the modernist aesthetic, despite the challenges. "We didn't want a colonial," says Boardman. They liked the home because it was unusual, with its Acorn partitions, its glass walls – and its stilts.
When Barbara Boardman and her husband bought their 1957 steel-and-glass modular home in Carlisle, Mass., it wasn't out of a passion for midcentury modern architecture.
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