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Home Town: The Church House

Ben and Erin help a local minister and his wife reimagine and reinvent their current home, transforming it to better accommodate their large family while incorporating some novel and as classic stylistic elements.

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Photo: Laura Good

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Erin and Ben take on a project in the nearby town of Ellisville, Mississippi — just a few miles down the road from Laurel. Their clients are Charlie Turner, minister at the Ellisville Presbyterian Church, and his wife Melissa. The couple and their five kids have been living in the clergy home provided to them by the church. The house is functional, but stylistically it's far from their dream home. Erin and Ben aim to help them change that.

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Before

Prior to the renovation, the house was '70s ranch-style basic — with plain brick exterior, dated iron porch columns and no defining features. Though it served the basic purpose as a place to call home, Melissa likened its outward appearance as "like a place you'd go to renew your driver's license."

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Photo: Laura Good. From: Erin Napier and Ben Napier.

After

The Turner home now features a freshly painted exterior in cream white, contrasting black window trim and natural-wood accents.

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After

Unfinished cypress columns and support beams, and a new and stylistically coordinated front door, help redefine the look of the home's entry.

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