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FROM TEARS TO
ABOVE The brothersister team of Billy Pearson and Carolyn Wilbrink bring HGTV’s show Farmhouse Facelift to life on Wednesday evenings on the network famous for fantastic makeovers.
By Clare Dear
42 Lifestyle July/August 2021
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K
risten Henderson says she was in tears the first time she walked into the farmhouse she, husband Michael and their growing family were going to call home. However, they were not tears of joy. “I had never seen it,” Kristen says of the house she and Michael had just purchased. Located south of Thamesford, it had been in the Henderson family for three generations before being sold. Now,
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this current generation of the family had the opportunity to put the Henderson name on it again. Michael’s father had grown up in the house and Michael himself had lived his whole childhood within its walls. “They were drawing me drawings and trying to tell me what it looked like,” Kristen recalls. “When we were able to get in, I was nine months pregnant, and I cried and cried,” she says of that first look.
