The projects—from repairing rotten floor joists and leaking radiators to
stemming the tide of a full-blown flood—just kept coming for a couple of first-timers tackling a deteriorating home
Elva Van Devender, homeownerThis Old House magazine
The next two years were filled with endless installations of tile, beadboard, and crown molding. Tye started joking that he went to work to relax because all our weekends and days off were spent on home-improvement projects.
Pictured: Homeowners Tye and Elva Van Devender replaced the upper cabinets a bank of white, light-reflecting ones fitted with salvaged wavy glass.
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