Feel the Joy Magazine. Fall Issue - Flipbook - Page 22
ONE HOME
AT A TIME
How giving an older house a second life
can change more than one address.
Drive
through
almost
any simply haven’t had the same
established
Minnesota opportunity.
neighborhood and you’ll see Roofs age. Windows become
Kitchens
designed
homes that have been standing drafty.
for generations. Mature trees decades ago stop fitting the way
shade the sidewalks. Porches families live today. Landscaping
overgrown,
repairs
have watched families come and becomes
go.
Kitchens
have
hosted accumulate, and eventually an
thousands of dinners, birthdays older house may begin to look
and ordinary Tuesday mornings. forgotten.
Some of these homes have been But that doesn’t mean its story is
over. Often, it simply needs a new
beautifully maintained. Others
chapter.
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