4400 Buchanan Ave, Baltimore, MD 21211

A crossbuck country fence runs along the Wood Heights sidewalk, turns tightly at Buchanan, and continues atop a stacked-stone retaining wall beneath the canopy of a spreading pin oak. Hiding behind the oak is a Medfield bungalow, its windowed porch waiting at the end of a bluestone path. The porch, a three-season space warmed by the sun through its louvered panes, leads to an easeful and open living area. A hallway connects two corner bedrooms and a shared full bath. Upstairs, the geometry created by the parallels and intersections of the roof gables, dormers, and eaves assigns charmed functions to each of the bedroom's quadrants: a place to sleep, a place to sit, perhaps a place to work. With sunlight arriving from all sides, the planked walls evoke the quaintness of a Nantucket cottage. On the lower level, recently updated flooring and lighting redefine the knotty-pine-paneled space. There is a half bath beside the rear entrance, while utility, storage, and laundry areas occupy the...