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A mix of salvaged materials and sweat equity breathed new life into a house that had seen tough times
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New Ideas
by Angela Dasher
How one novice homeowner renovated a wreck with crumbling walls, moldy floors, and pigeon nests, relying on lots of help from her dear old dad
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by Charles McAfee, Homeowner
The green shag carpet, makeshift walls, and layers of flooring were enough to make his mother cry. But after four years of remodeling weekends, this DIYer and his partner have made the 1919 bungalow into an inviting home
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A couple in Bermuda turns a classic Georgian house into a comfortable home for four
A dream kitchen drives a farmhouse's remodel
A devastating fire in an 18th-century farmhouse gives its devoted owner a chance to restore more than his home
This Old House headed
inland to Winchester, Massachusetts to renovate a 1922 Colonial revival reminiscent of any small-town home
Q: Is there something (besides drywalling) that I can do to prepare crumbling walls for painting?
And so began the work on another This Old House television project. After give-and-take between drawing board and checkbook, the plans— by local architect David Stirling — were finished.
I thought building a new house would beeasier than fixing up an old one. I was wrong
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December 2009
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