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05.20.07

Garage Remodeling the Latest Trend
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By SHEBA WHEELER DENVER -The allure of Petur Workman's $2 million home isn't a stainless-steel kitchen or over-the-top home theater. Visitors to this house can't wait to see Workman's tricked-out garage, complete with painted walls, seamless epoxy floors, canned lighting and custom cabinets. "It's like opening a door to a treasured guest room or library," says Workman, a central Denver real estate broker. "The garage is not just a place for cars and cobwebs anymore." Experts say garage makeovers are this decade's fallout trend from the 1980s push for closet organization and the 1990s zeal for kitchen remodeling. According to an April 2005 report by ...
05.11.07

Easy, Mr. Fix-It
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By Joyce Wadler New York Times May 3, 2007 THE three Victorian houses James G. Ferreri renovated are gone from his life, but the pain from his falls and injuries lingers on: there’s the arthritis, the atrophy in his right arm, and the back trouble, for which he’s had two surgeries (a third is looming). In pursuit of perfection, Mr. Ferreri, a 52-year-old interior designer who is the president of the Preservation League of Staten Island, has replaced bathrooms, floors, staircases and shingles. Once he hauled a 300-pound cast-iron fireplace liner from the basement to the curb. That put him on his back ...

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