Modernizing nostalgia Buying and renovating A childhood home Karin melberg schwier Sometimes adult children, for a variety of reasons, come back home to roost, upending their parents’ empty-nester status. But there are others who come back to claim the roost as their own when the parents move on, seizing the opportunity to live their
adult lives in the rooms they occupied in childhood. One such remigrant, Colleen Shalley, embraced the Lakeview home she knew in her formative years and, together with husband Matt, decided to make it a place to create new memories.
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The 1600 sq. ft. two-storey, three bedroom, two-and-ahalf bath, was built in the 1980s and was home to Colleen’s family. Her parents Belinda and Trevor, who had corporate jobs, and her younger sister Erica who was only a year when the family
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bought the Wakaw Crescent house. It was Colleen’s sanctuary from the age of five until she left at 18. Making the Move Back Newlyweds Colleen and Matt lived in Warman and wanted to move back
