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URBAN OASIS

WHEN IT HIT the market in 2011, this 1953 ranch house in Denver’s Crestmoor Park neighborhood was a time capsule. Its pine-paneled office, metallic-wallpaper-wrapped bathrooms, and green galley kitchen were 1960s originals. But to potential buyer Paul Wrona, an award-winning landscape architect with more than a decade on the Denver design scene, the house was the epitome of “good-bones” potential. (Back in its heyday, the charming ranch was featured in a magazine.)

Even better for Wrona,

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