Old Home Love

Old Home Love

Andy and Candis Meredith

Chaunte Vaughn except where noted

Old Home Love

Digital Edition 1.0

Text © 2017 Andy and Candis Meredith

Photos copyright Chaunte Vaughn except where noted

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.

Gibbs Smith

P.O. Box 667

Layton, Utah 84041

Orders: 1.800.835.4993

www.gibbs-smith.com

ISBN: 9781423646532

FOR OUR LITTLE ONES

Parker, James, Cohen, Will, Tommy, Brooks and Kit.

You are the reason we make things beautiful, you are our whole hearts.

Old Home Love

Table of Contents

Our Passion and Story We Really Love Old Homes

Built in 1859 Love House

Modern Classic Style Snow House

A Mansion Repurposed Garbett Homes

A Treasured Second Home Goss Home

Candis’s First Historic Remodel Three-Twenty-Three

A Mountain Man Home The Cabin

Midcentury Beauty Joe Jackson House

On Trend And Timeless Morgan Home

A Work in Progress Ollie Berg House

Moved Stone By Stone The Chester School House

A Victorian Filled With Art and Love Anderson House

A Charming Stone Cottage Thatcher Home

A Family Home The Healing House

Arts and Crafts Kleiner Home

Inviting and Peaceful Gibbons House

Adobe Pioneer Home Ruby’s House

Almost Lost Forever The Skyline house

A Home Meant For Creativity The Banister House

A Treasured Past Orson Hyde Home

A Family Treasure Smoot Family Home

Our New Old Home Lemmon-Dixon House

The Making of a Book Acknowledgments

Our passion and Story

We Really Love Old Homes

Photo by Cami McIntosh

I never gave much thought to historic homes and their significance. I was used to seeing the pioneer homes in Utah, but to me it seemed like most of them were either in downtown areas of the smaller cities and being used as run-down rentals or in the super-exclusive avenues section of Salt Lake City.

There wasn’t a lot of in-between for these homes, and since I didn’t really know anyone in either of those places, I just didn’t spend time around them. I grew up hearing the stories of the people of this time and their lives and accomplishments but didn’t really stop to think about their immediate surroundings, their day-to-day routines, or their homes. I have always been fascinated by the 1800s. It was such an incredible century of transformation for America and the world. I’m sure that everyone through history tends to romanticize the past and I guess I’m no different. I’m not saying I’d like to have lived then, by any means; I really do enjoy my Bluetooth headphones.

Candis is asked all the time why she loves old homes so much and why she does what she does. Her response is simple: she was born to do it. She bought her first historic home at twenty-one and never looked back. She attributes a lot of her courage to her Grandpa Leo and Grandma Mary. Leo has fiercely loved her since she was born and built her her first playhouse; Mary is an artist who specializes in paintings of historic homes and a very strong woman herself. They taught Candis to be tough, independent, and hardworking. She was drawing floor plans for dream homes with secret floors and nooks when she was five and she would save all the old homes if she could. I think she would like to live in the 1800s if it were possible, even though she would promptly want to come back to a place where women have rights and a voice, ha-ha!

Before I met Candis, I was a full-blown adult, having lost most of that desire for exploration and discovery that we naturally have as kids. Being able to find that again in these homes has been amazing and redemptive. She really did save me. I had been through some really hard times and she showed me the brightness and beauty of life and I will always be grateful to her for that. Plus she’s really cute. We brought together our little family and have been happy. Having six boys between us was an adventure, but we decided to be straight crazy and add a little girl. No regrets.

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