Sean Bolen and his wife Jennifer were expecting to spend a lot of time restoring their 1904 home in the "Old North" neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee. They just didn't plan on. . .
expecting. That's right, three weeks after they purchased their historic home, they found out they were pregnant. That gave a certain urgency to the timetable for getting their newly purchased -- but dilapidated -- home into live-in condition. The Bolens were successful in restoring several rooms on their own, and they've had a new roof installed. Now,
Restoration Realities steps in to help remedy several plaster cracks in the upstairs bedrooms. They also spruce up the stairway with period-appropriate anaglypta wallpaper and a beautiful red oak chair-rail.