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began demolishing the interior of her 1953 brick bungalow in East Atlanta, she didn’t expect to fall in love with it. “It was like a cave,” says Briana, who had moved from Austin, Texas, with her husband, Dominic Cancilla, and their eight-yearold son, Cooper, for Dominic’s work in the film industry. “It didn’t scream ‘dream home,’ but I saw the potential—the lot is incredible. We thought we

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