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Are you ready for a Room Redo?
BY BROOKE KANSIER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
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he Room Redo team spent hours poring through applications of living rooms, photos of dining rooms and tours of dens to find the homes most manageable and most in need of help — this year’s final five. Now, the project’s Cottage Works design team is hard at work planning and prepping for renovations, which will bring the team and winning homeowner together for a week of blood, sweat
and elbow grease from March 13-17. And with a big project ahead, they’ll need all the four leaf clovers they can get. The homeowner will have the design team and a $2,000 pot of gold — err, budget — to turn their space into a dream room. Choosing this year’s finalists was no easy task, of course. The team was moved by touching stories and called to action by your struggling spaces. But in the end, there can only be one winner.
And that winner stood apart. “It could be amazing!” designer Andrea Carlson said of the room (if you just can’t wait, see page 4). “It’s like a blank slate,” added Cottage Works owner Julie VanDyke. Julie and Andrea will be joined by designers Sue Pohl and Barbara Erwin, along with Cottage Works owner and Julie’s husband Dann VanDyke and his team of builders. The Cottage Works team is a new addition, taking over for past project designer Julie Ann McDonald, of Old Mc-
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Donald’s Farm Finds, and builders Keri and Stephen Sipes of Benchmark Homes. Check out the rooms and stories on the final five — along with some valuable tips on updating the spaces — inside. Keep up on the renovations in coming editions of the Ludington Daily News and online at www.ludingtondailynews. com. We’ll have sneak peeks and updates throughout renovation week. And be sure to pick up an edition on Tuesday, March 21 to see the full reveal.
PATTI KLEVORN | DAILY NEWS PHOTOS
Stephanie Quinn, 6289 Iroquois Road, Pentwater, would like to see a nautical makeover for her living room. The room offers a serene view of the woods, where the family can often spot wildlife. She and her husband are soon-to-be empty-nesters, with two sons. The youngest is 17 and soon to leave for college.
Beth Kirby, of 1811 Tall Oaks West, Ludington, wants to take her son’s sporty basement bedroom in a new direction. She hopes to bring a travel-themed guest room to fruition, complete with a large world map she got at a school sale.
Jim Dennis’ mother and father, Dick and Loretta, are hoping for a comfortable, picturesque front room to spend their summers. The pair of 93-year-olds will live in a mobile home at 2763 in Tamarac Village on Lake Hamlin.
Jennifer Grendregske, 5111 Huntington Cove, Ludington, would like to see the cottage’s “bunk room,” which sleeps nearly a dozen visitors, get a more welcoming and relaxing look. Beth and Rick Mallon, 1431 Cedar Lane, Amber Township, hope to get a jumpstart on their remodel with the help of the Room Redo team. JEFF KIESSEL | DAILY NEWS PHOTOS
See the winner inside