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Article: Our House of the Year: the home you've always wanted.
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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What do you dream of building? A new house? A garden sanctuary? A brighter, more inviting kitchen? Follow along as homeowners renovate the kitchen of an 18th-century house, a family surprises mom with a revitalized courtyard garden, and we take you inside not one but two start-to-finish homes--a two-story modular and our signature 2004 House of the Year--that you can build for yourself.
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In 1983, when Mark Simeral--then working for a construction company in Lancaster, Pa.--built his family an 18th-century-style Colonial, he didn't imagine where it would lead. "People couldn't tell it was new," says his wife ...