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In plan and elevation, the house in Charlestown, Rhode Island, looks fairly straightforward. But step inside, and the ground floor is flooded with daylight—the result of double-height skylit spaces over the kitchen, living room, study, and entry foyer. “We were very interested in how we could sculpt light,” says Andrew Bernheimer, whose firm, Bernheimer Architecture, had previously renovated a Brooklyn, New York, townhouse for the family of five, who vacation in the small beach town year-round.