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Photo: James Merrell (Styled by Christina Wressell).
From:
HGTV Magazine.
Home Shopping Your Way
Back in 2012, when Laura Burleson was searching for a new home after her divorce, she didn’t trudge through endless open houses or agonize about finding the perfect property. Instead she just knocked on the front door of a 1950s ranch house in her Tallahassee, FL, neighborhood and offered to buy the place—without even seeing the inside. “I wasn’t worried. I liked the exterior, and I knew I was going to redo the rooms anyway,” says Laura, a self-taught designer with a just-go-for-it attitude. The house got a fresh face once the brick was painted James White and the front door Teresa’s Green, both by Farrow & Ball, and the shutters DKC-8 by Donald Kaufman Color.