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A Home of Their Own
After Mark Hargis inherited his childhood home in Woodbury, a remodel updated the main living spaces to fit the needs of his family of five. by Taylor Hugo
After Mark Hargis’ mother and father passed away in 2016 and 2018, respectively, he and his wife, Jennie, had a choice to make: sell Mark’s childhood home or move into the home with their three young kids. They chose the latter, deciding to hold off on remodeling for one year while the family grieved the loss of their parents and decluttered nearly four decades’ worth of memories. “I was looking forward to making it our own,” Mark says. “We kept some of the context of the older house, and from the exterior perspective, it looks the same. But from
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an interior perspective, how we’re using it, it’s just more functional. It’s more us.” In order to achieve their goal of “building a customized house that would be comparable to one of the nicest, newest houses in Woodbury,” the homeowners hired Laura Wiener Scheidecker and the team at Cardinal Remodeling to carry out a complete main-level overhaul— starting with the floor plan. In typical 1980s fashion, all the rooms were closed off from each other, so the first order of business was knocking
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