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Photo: Trevor Dixon.
Design:
HGTV Magazine.
Maintaining a Home
For two decades, Sandy and Angella Nicholls lived in a 102-year-old Davidson, N.C., farmhouse with four bedrooms and a pool, but also a large, time-consuming garden, hand-me-down furniture and a leaky roof. "It was a great place to raise a family, but we were ready for a change," says Angella, a registered nurse.