Nov 15, 2009
Presto Reno: Akron
Although I’ve never visited Akron, Ohio, the town already holds a place in my imagination at the home of David Giffels, who wrote a wonderful chronicle of his old-house reno, All the Way Home. Meanwhile Michael Ruhlman’s House, about his restoration of an old Victorian, is set not far away in Cleveland Heights. So I couldn’t resist these before and after photos sent to me by Akron resident John Joyce who renovated an 1853 house that had been abandoned for a decade. Here is the garden that lured him into taking on this huge reno.
Click on John’s photo essay which tells the whole story. http://redincorporated.com/wp-content/uploads/RenoBookSmall.pdf
