Sometimes a piece of furniture does more than anchor a room—it forges a friendship and sparks a home renovation . For Waltham, Massachusetts–based homeowner Amanda Knorr, founder of Knosen Antiques , and Utah interior designer Meta Coleman , a shared love of antique wooden sleigh beds sparked an intentionally slow-paced renovation of the 1930s Cape Cod–style house that Knorr shares with her husband, David Senft, and son. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is my person,’” Knorr recalls of her early conversations with Coleman.

Coleman designed the mudroom cabinetry with detailing inspired by Knorr’s antiques and Farrow & Ball’s folky, moody Gable wallpaper, which the homeowner notes looks strikingly like a farm down the street from their house.…