A close-knit family and their friends gather every summer at their P.E.I. home. Long hot days punctuated by cool dips in the Atlantic are capped off by leisurely memorable dinners with the best eats the East Coast has to offer.

With a baby comes a lot more than a little bundle of joy! Our associate home editor Julia Black shows us how she maximized space and style to make her 1,200-square-foot townhouse work for a family of three (plus a dog named Parker!)

Armed with a bottle of ketchup and an arsenal of real-life solutions, a gutsy designer showed this family of four that sophisticated style and sticky fingers can live happily under one roof.