Home of Week: A 3-bedroom Somerville, Massachusetts condo with private roof deck

Sometimes a single element gives silent voice to the transformation undergone when a 110-year-old house is remade into two 21st-century condos. In this two-floor unit near Somerville’s Union Square, that role is played by a large square skylight that delivers natural light directly into the stairwell and the top-level family room.

It’s one of the many changes made during a down-to-the-studs renovation that also created a lower level with an open floor plan that one arrives at by walking up a flight of stairs with blackened steel railings, natural wood treads, and white walls with wainscoting and shiplap.

A double-door closet is perfectly stationed at the top of the stairs, and a right turn reveals a sightline deep into a home with distinctive design choices: red oak flooring in a herringbone pattern, white walls covered in shiplap, recessed lighting, and a gas fireplace with a black honed granite surround — the first use of black-and-white contrast found in other spaces.

Check out the herringbone floor in the kitchen.

The home, which takes up two levels, has hardwood flooring, a gas fireplace, and a $1,485,000 price tag. See inside at realestate.boston.com.

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