a fresh New Look:
their dogs, including their dachshund named Cracker Jack.
But in 2020, with their children grown, they felt like it
was time. So they reached out to long-time family friend
Richard Dooley, an Atlanta-based architect and general
contractor, to see what a plan would look like.
“We always wanted to renovate and do some things but
it always got put on the back burner,” Melinda said. “We
finally decided, in September 2020, that we were going to
actually do something.”
As Melinda said, they knew they would fall in love with
the plan before they got into the process. So they fully
jumped in, thinking at first they could live in their home
during the renovation, only to later find out that wasn’t
feasible.
“We said that we wanted to raise the roof, because we
actually had attic space that was a master bedroom that had
been converted,” Melinda said. “Then that led to redoing
the kitchen and then reconfiguring basically the whole
house.”
Instead of staying at home, one day while out walking
Cracker Jack, they came up with a different plan. During
the COVID-19 pandemic, they had noticed that a neighbor
five houses down hadn’t been home often. So they reached
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