When Chris Vinyard and Mary Kathryn Wells wanted to buy a house for their family in Nashville in Nashville 2015, they concentrated on the essentials: place, size and condition. If you could find a home with good bones, you thought you could wait to renovate that reflects your sense of style.
So the couple came into consideration of a solid but boring house in the 12th neighborhood of 12. “It was a very boring, structural developer, a built Spec home,” said Ms. Wells, 44, interior designer.
But the 2,500 square meter house with four bedrooms seemed nice enough, and there were only a few other options, so they bought it and moved in.
With 535,000 US dollars “it was at the top of what we thought was feasible,” said Vinyard, 42, founder of Clarion Call Media, a music promotion company. And Ms. Wells expected the second of her three children aged 7 to 12, so that they had little free time or free funds for renovation work.
The house served its purpose for almost a decade and gradually made a few pieces of improvements, such as the replacement of lights and wallpapering of the children's rooms. But things had changed until last year.
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