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Published on: 11/11/2007
Last Visited: 11/12/2007
Wide-plank pine floors that have already felt decades of footsteps, carved doors that have open and shut for perhaps a century or more, stout old ceiling beams that once bore up a country barn and salvaged chandeliers that once shone on other spaces: These are the architectural elements that set the home of Paul and Julie Higgins inside another era.
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Yet the home's natural setting near the Finley River in Ozark , and the driveway that leads to it , is one of the things Paul Higgins likes best about the place.
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Paul, 48, a manager at Prime Inc., grew up in Lebanon, but Julie, 44, who owns Higgins Marketing, was raised on a farm near Rogersville.
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At the time, Paul says they also wanted their new home to showcase the talent of home designer Ron Hill, with whom the Higginses once owned a design company.
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"Paul and I loved building this house because of the subcontractors we dealt with," Julie says.