![]() ![]() The second floor has the owners’ bedroom, where Glenn opened up the ceiling and installed antique beams, a guest room, and a bathroom. To the right of the entry is a charming renovated study paneled in pine, and facing the front door is the home’s centuries- old staircase. It now hangs in the corner, announcing visitors with a jaunty jingle. He also repaired and installed an antique Victorian coil bell with a pulley system similar to what’s shown in the opening credits of Downton Abbey. There he created a new entry with a mahogany doorway and dentil crown moulding, both of which he made in the millwork shop. When the back of the house was finished, Glenn switched his focus to the front. After that, he built a screened porch with a sky-blue painted floor and attached a deck that overlooks the property’s gardens, fields, sheep pastures, and pond. Next, he began finishing the back shed, adding cabinetry, carpeting, and window trim for a great room with a sleeping loft for guests. Two sets of French doors on opposite sides can be thrown open, making the space feel like an outdoor room. To do this, he built a sunny breezeway with a checkerboard floor and skylights. Like most old Maine farmhouses, the home was composed of a couple of buildings, and one of Glenn’s first renovation projects was to connect the main home to the back shed. He’s been building quality custom home s-and slowly renovating his own home-ever since. Eventually, Glenn admitted that accounting wasn’t his passion, and that’s when he moved to York to launch YFI Custom Homes. That kind of business savvy is something he picked up from his first job: in the early 1980s he worked as a CPA in Boston. “YFI Millworks allows me to have more control over what we’re building,” Glenn says, noting that, by creating the finish work such as the interior trim, built-ins, and cabinetry in-house, he can guarentee that client deadlines are met. While Glenn can be found working at his Cape Neddick office (when he’s not out on a jobsite) for the former business, the latter is actually housed in a barn on his home’s bucolic 30-acre property. ![]() He happens to be a builder and the owner of YFI Custom Homes and YFI Millworks. “Instead, it’s a nice little evolution.” That sense of flow is thanks to Glenn’s handiwork. “It’s not, ‘Oh no, this doesn’t match the rest of the house,’” says Mary.
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