The Cottage Journal

A Project in PATIENCE

omeowner Jackie Wise is quick to admit that she and her husband, Jimmy, didn’t really know what they were getting into when they purchased their 1950s fixer-upper in Jimmy’s hometown of Springville, Alabama. “After we

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