Interior designer Maggie Griffin was excited when close friends bought an empty lot with intentions to build in her neighborhood. But she was over the moon when the family of four had a change of heart and instead moved into a home only two doors down, giving her an opportunity to help them revamp.
“After living there for about a year, they decided to undergo a renovation that in the beginning was going to be a kitchen and a few tweaks, and then it turned into a full-blown, five-month, move-out reno, as it happens sometimes,” says Maggie, based in Gainesville, Georgia.
The first priority was replacing all the floors. After decades of sanding and refinishing, the original heart pine was worn beyond salvaging. “The kids were getting splinters in their…