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Erin and Ben Napier of ‘Home Town’ Break a Beloved Design Rule: Should You, Too?
On “Home City,” Erin and Ben Napier are inclined to adhere to tried-and-correct design policies when transforming a house—but in the most recent episode, they prove that any rule can be damaged for the proper situation. In the Period 7 episode “Blue Heaven,” the Napiers fulfill Michael and his grownup son, Maclain, who have moved from Florida to Laurel, MS. He’s bought a 4-bed room, two-toilet home shown at $157,000 and has $100,000 for renovations. His residence is a cozy Craftsman in a charming Southern city. Nonetheless, Michael is insisting that the makeover veer in a entirely unique route, offering the area a breezy, coastal aesthetic. This sunny Craftsman undergoes…
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A developer plans luxury homes on a beloved Main Line property. But locals are pushing to ‘Save Rock Hill Farm.’
The rolling hills, lush meadows, and verdant woodlands at Rock Hill Farm in Willistown offer you glimpses of the earlier. They are also the concentration of a struggle about the potential — not only of Willistown and Chester County, but of after-rural, suburbanizing communities in other collar counties of Philadelphia, the place bucolic vistas prolonged treasured by locals are supplying way to McMansions and Wawas. “These significant tracts of undeveloped land, these heritage landscapes? After they’re absent, they are gone,” mentioned Pennsylvania Point out Sen. Carolyn T. Comitta, a Chester County Democrat. Prolonged owned by a conservation-minded nearby household, Rock Hill Farm was acquired for $25.4 million previous December by…
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