What was different about this renovation?

Everyone working on this house became family

Our cook Carol made every worker sit down at the table every morning for breakfast.

She made sure they had coffee and hot chocolate in the winter and lemonade in the summer.

Lunch? Glad you asked! We all had a big lunch every Friday together in the Great Room.

During this renovation we laughed, screamed, threw things, tore up blue prints, cried a bit, had temper tantrums, took field trips to home shows, customized every thing from pillows that matched Elizabeth A's grandmother's 1940's curtains to a surpervising the cut granite for the countertops.

Elizabeth and Elizabeth decorated every inch of the rooms. They sat for weeks upon weeks with swatches and paint chips on room boards. It was an amazing 7 months!

We all spent Christmas, Easter, Halloween and birthday's together

It became and is a family

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We had our wood milled in Western Mass

We picked out the very wood we wanted and watched it milled

A bit controlling would you say? Everything had to be perfect

Even the old 1700 wood taken out of this house was re-milled

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Breakfast, lunch....Like I said, family

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...........................................................................Copper roof a must!

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