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IN GOOD TASTE

MANY WORDS COME TO MIND when you walk through Nelson and Allison Perkins’ Observatory Park home, like “open,” “bright,” and “comfortable.” But hilarious? That’s how Allison describes the spaces she and her husband—he’s a classically trained chef; both are owners of Denver restaurant Colt & Gray and speakeasy Saint Ellie—encountered when they first toured the 1924 farmhouse.

“We fell in

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