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Building trust: For a Belmont farmhouse makeover, a couple gives their friends carte blanche
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Building trust: For a Belmont farmhouse makeover, a couple gives their friends carte blanche

Enlisting your best friends to design and manage the renovation of your home can be a risky endeavor, particularly when you encourage them to exercise creative freedom in designing what you hope will become your dream house. If you don’t like their work, can the friendship survive? That was the question friends often asked photographer […]

joebargmann | October 25, 2019

Abode Magazines

Building trust: For a Belmont farmhouse makeover, a couple gives their friends carte blanche

Enlisting your best friends to design and manage the renovation of your home can be a risky endeavor, particularly when you encourage them to exercise creative freedom in designing what you hope will become your dream house. If you don’t like their work, can the friendship survive? That was the question friends often asked photographer […]

joebargmann | October 25, 2019

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