Welcome to a little site about our Victorian home in the Denver Highlands, and our efforts to renovate this gem. This photo is what the house looks like after some extensive exterior renovations, including fantastic brickwork by John and his team over at Cornerstone Restoration, and carpentry and painting by an amazing team as part of the late Jim Dowd.

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Generous zoning laws have meant that any Denver Highland lot of reasonable size is being sold & scraped, and, shortly thereafter, is home to a new modern duplex with a few square centimeters of yard. That route wasn’t for us. We’ve lived in the Highland neighborhood of Denver for nearly a decade, but we recenly decided we needed more space for our growing family. We wanted the house and the yard, and we didn’t really want to compromise on location.

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