Old houses, brought back.

For years I walked past a house that still had every one of its original wavy-glass windows. When the family who'd owned it since 1960 decided to sell, I bought it so it wouldn't be gutted.

Inside, it already had been. A 1960s remodel had stripped it and painted everything Pepto-Bismol pink. Over a year and a half I took it to the studs and built it back as if it were of the period.

Now people ask what I did. "Just paint?"