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Northshore October 2025
The key to the bathroom renovation Steve Howell, president of Howell Custom Building Group, took on in a North Andover Colonial was the saltbox roof. The room was small, pushed up under the sloping eaves, with what Howell describes as “a horrific set of conflicting doors” that always banged into each other. The homeowners “were constantly dancing around those doors,” says Howell. The solution was to put in pocket doors and to extend the room by 4 feet into the 9- by 14-foot unfinished space under the roof. The extension required inserting a two-window dormer, and provided space for a bigger shower and an expansion of the bedroom
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