Dana stood in the center of the ‘sitting’ room sizing up what she saw. “I just can’t believe this woodwork! It’s beautiful.”
Larry was all smiles. When we bought the house several years ago, it was all painted over. It took a few years of scraping and staining, when we had the time, to get all the woodwork and the floors back to this.”
“I bet. It’s wonderful; you did an amazing job.”
Karen beamed in the background where she stood beside me. She stepped forward and touched Dana’s arm then pointed at a closed door, “Now go on through there. Like we told you, the layout is similar to Mel and Kris’s house, but we think you’ll be surprised with that.”
Dana opened the door to the room in their house that would be the equivalent to the den in mine. I heard her intake of breath from where I st
