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Before & After: They Updated a 1980 Catskills Cabin—by Making It Look Like the 1880s
Before & After: They Updated a 1980 Catskills Cabin—by Making It Look Like the 1880s
“We take houses built in the ’70s, ’80s, or ’90s, and we make them look like the 1870s or 1880s or 1890s,” explains Jack Alessio Pretto of Retroject Projects.
By Elizabeth Fazzare
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Smart Mountain Living Just Minutes from Park City Asks $10.8M
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