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Lovingly restored home with period features and garden surprise up for sale
This lovingly restored dwelling in Stockton Heath could be yours. Pics: Ashtons THIS lovingly restored household in leafy Stockton Heath could be yours soon after becoming place on the sector. Estate agents say purchasers will enjoy the degree of thought that went into refurbing the 4-bedroom dwelling on Marlborough Crescent. This lovingly restored property in Stockton Heath could be yours. Pictures: Ashtons This lovingly restored house in Stockton Heath could be yours. Pics: Ashtons The up to date design boosts first characteristics and generates a brilliant place within the Edwardian house, situated on a person of the area’s most sought-just after private roadways. Inspite of the restoration, there is a…
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This meticulously planned and planted Queen Anne garden changes for the seasons in colorful echoes of a restored Victorian home
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, this sultry Victorian on Queen Anne was once a humble 1906 house clad in white vinyl siding, with a “pretty” pink, yellow and blue garden skirting its foundation. Then Brian Coleman, a Seattle psychiatrist with a love for old houses, discovered a passion for historical restoration. “We added a turret, carvings of sunflowers and cast-iron griffins, along with new siding in a fall palette of deep greens, gold and burgundy,” he says. “The garden had to change!” American poet Phyllis McGinley once wrote, “The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.” Coleman tells me his passion (obsession?) for…
