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The house isn't mine, Tom, it's my parents. Built in 1904 and messed up by various owners over the years until they bought it in late 1974. My parents than embarked on a multi-decade restoration, which only really got going when most of the eight children left the house. As you might guess from our family's size, the house is closest to the Four Square style, but even larger: six bedrooms (more in a pinch), three-and-a-half baths.

The house has big bones (huge fireplace and large ceiling beams), a large and cool porch, and lots of fine detail. It's a great house—the "big finish" to a row of five Craftsman houses on their side of that street.

We own an early 1960s Cape Cod constructed by gypsy felons. What we do have is (much) more garage space …