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hunt with the hounds

George Marrone was helping a friend look at houses when he stumbled upon a rare find: an obsessively maintained, wellloved midcentury gem that needed some work. Not a heavy lift, not a project that would require an architect or major contractors, just a new vision and some effort.

“Every window had massive coverings and valances. Every surface you can see that was white now was brown,” George recalls, standing in the spacious living room of the Wilmington, Delaware, house he shares with his partner, Michael Nocera. “It was all cosmetic, if you could just see past it.”

"I grew up in the '70s and was drawn to The Brady Bunch. This is

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