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Virginia Home Renovation

Welcome to Libertad's home renovation!  In this blog I will be chronicling the renovation of this 2-story house built in 1904 that my husband and I just purchased this December.  As you can see, the house needs a lot of TLC.  


Here is a back shot of the house.  It was listed as as 2874 sq. feet.  There's a lot of rooms, and tons of space!  Since taking this photo, we've already removed the piece of chain link fence that was behind the guest house porch.


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