When Cathleen and Britt Seay purchased their dwelling in 2000, they knew they needed to renovate the house and begin a household. What they didn’t know was that it might take them 17 years to get all of it carried out.
“We needed to renovate as a result of the home felt darkish”, says Cathleen. “My husband and I had been each born and raised in Greenville, met at Greenville Excessive and went to Clemson. We had been younger and contemporary once we purchased this home and did quite a lot of the work ourselves.”
“Hiring an architect (for us, Tindall Structure) was so vital. Although, we all the time knew what we needed to do to the home – we weren’t all the time certain easy methods to get there. Tindall introduced the main points that made it work.”
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Cathleen can snicker about her youthful bold years, however we’re right here to inform you it doesn’t appear as if she’s slowed down one bit.
She and her sister, Jean Wilson Freeman, a neighborhood artist and fairly the renovator herself, personal a enterprise referred to as “Wilson Ladies”, which got here from their shared love of dwelling.
“It’s humorous as a result of Jean and I renovated back-to-back and that is actually when the thought to open Wilson Ladies began to appear like a actual factor we should always do. We had all the time needed to do one thing like that collectively. After we had been each looking for the perfect combine of classic and new stuff for our homes – and fill them with artwork and colour, we felt like different folks may need that, too.”
Becoming a member of the couple on this story are two kids, daughter, Millie Hallman (age 20); son, Britton (age 16) who’re blissful recipients of their dad and mom’ abilities.
“We used the yard to entertain on a regular basis. We added the pool through the pandemic, as a result of we didn’t know what the brand new regular was going to be. If we had been going to be dwelling, we needed to have choices! In truth, through the pandemic we might have Friday evening events, the place we might grill out, activate the music and celebration lights and play some critical Badminton video games – simply the 4 of us!”
It might have taken longer than deliberate to get to the ultimate chapters of this dwelling’s story, however it certain seems to be like a contented ending to us.