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Home of the Week: Designer’s Salem Italianate goes from vintage to vogue
The 1886 property comes with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and stunning modern lighting.
10 Hathorne St., Salem
$1,495,000
Style Italianate
Year built 1886; renovated 2023
Square feet 3,074
Bedrooms 3
Baths 2 full, 1 half
Sewer/Water Public
Taxes $8,237 (2024)
Forget the house. Check out the detached carriage house.
Interior designer Andrew Terrat transformed one bay into a home office fit for any New England winter. The porcelain tile floor has radiant heat, creating the ideal temperature for pets and their laboring humans.
Skylights, windows, and a French sliding door with a black frame bring the outside in. “The sun is pouring in one of the windows all day long,” Terrat said.
As for the main house, Terrat and his partner, Michael DeCarlo, bought it and mounted a massive rescue effort.
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The McIntire District home was built in 1886 for Benjamin W. Sulman, a clerk and treasurer for Salem Gas Light Co. The Victorian-era covered side entry and other period features remain. Today, that door opens into a bright 100-square-foot foyer with a handsome staircase and elegant radial light fixture.
The 261-square-foot living room, found to the left, features peacock blue walls, a four-window bump-out, a stained-glass window, crown molding, and a ceiling medallion that’s original to the home. The flooring here, and throughout the main living areas on this level, is a mix of oak and pine painted a flat black.
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The family room, a 212-square-foot space found to the right off the foyer, features a gas fireplace, a double-hung window, a lead-glass window, and a gold-toned light fixture with six opaque globes. The fireplace mantel is original to the home. Dark French doors open to a deck.
Stride past the fireplace and a second set of stairs to access the kitchen (219 square feet) and dining room (167 square feet).
The kitchen is like a coastal New England fog, with hypnotic shades of white and gray, save for the black floor, window frames, and cabinet pulls. The raised-panel maple cabinets are a pale gray, as is the banding in the white Caesarstone countertops. Subway tile stacked in a herringbone pattern sits above a Smeg gas stove. All of the appliances are white, making the hammered copper sink stand out all the more. The peninsula, which sits under a gold-banded globe pendant light, seems to be the ideal place for an afternoon nosh. A French door opens to the aforementioned deck.
The dining room has a decorative fireplace that’s original to the home. An oval dining table sits under a chandelier with oval starburst globes. Terrat painted the shallow bump-out here a bold mustard yellow that plays off the black-framed transom window.
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The home’s half bath, added during the renovation, is just off the dining room. Terrat calls it one of the “fun rooms.” The three-color marble flooring is set in a design called “tumbling blocks.” (Think M.C. Escher.) There’s a porcelain wall-mounted sink and burnt orange wallpaper with white and black horses.
Up on the second floor, the 260-square-foot primary suite holds court. The suite, which sits in the front of the home, has a four-window bump-out, double-hung windows, light-gray walls, crown molding, and oak flooring painted a “deep ocean blue.” A glass-globe light fixture is mounted in an ornate plaster medallion that is original to the home.
The en-suite bath (149 square feet) features a dazzling geometric marble floor. The farmhouse-style double vanity is topped with Carrara marble. A single black-framed mirror hangs above it. This is a shower-only bath, but it impresses with a rain shower head, a subway tile surround, a wand nozzle, and a mosaic tile floor. A dressing room/closet completes the suite.
The other two bedrooms range from 94 to 177 square feet and feature wood flooring with a natural finish, single-door closets, and Juliet balconies. The larger bedroom offers a decorative fireplace and two windows, while the smaller has one window, gray walls, and a golden-yellow ceiling.
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They share a bath that comes with a single vanity topped with porcelain, a shower/tub combination with a glass door and a subway tile surround, teal walls, a window, and a marble tile floor.
The third floor is a 513-square-foot carpeted gathering place for friends and family where the hope of watching the Pats win can be renewed. Terrat has painted a geometric ceiling mural in shades of gray in a way that makes it seem as if you are in a sailboat gliding across Salem Harbor. There is also a 106-square-foot study.
The basement has been made over into a bonus room with vinyl flooring and a laundry area, one of two, with a sink and appliances.
The home sits on a 0.09-acre lot with a no-mow brick courtyard.
Pam McKee of Keller Williams Evolution in Beverly has the listing. As of press time, an offer had been accepted on the property.
Follow John R. Ellement on X @JREbosglobe. Send listings to [email protected]. Please note: We do not feature unfurnished homes unless they are new-builds or gut renovations and will not respond to submissions we won’t pursue.
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