Country Sampler

PATH Through the PAST

As a young boy, Gary K. Ball Jr. loved spending summers with his cherished grandparents, Ann and Lee Rose, at their country home in Easton, Maryland. That idyllic lifestyle inspired his own dreams of someday living in a farmhouse amid the picturesque landscape blanketed with a forest of pine trees. It’s a dream that ultimately came true.

After Gary’s grandfather suddenly passed away in 2012, his grandmother moved in with him for mutual care and camaraderie. In 2017, with his grandmother’s blessing, Gary launched a bold project to transform his grandparents’ late-1970s ranch-style home into the farmhouse he envisioned.

The makeover entailed gutting the interior

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