Primitives AT PLAY
Christa Bachman had long hoped for a home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, an enclave of historical homes with gas lanterns illuminating tree-lined streets. But with prices at a premium, her only option in that neighborhood was a fixer-upper.
Six years ago, she found what she was looking for in a sorely neglected brick-and-stucco English cottage built in 1929. It had last been renovated in the 1970s but was structurally sound.
“It needed so much work, but I saw all the potential it had,” Christa says. She, along with her late husband, young son and four rescue cats, made the untended cottage their home,
