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Northshore October 2025
“There was no bidding war, but there was a lot of work,” says Carolyn Salinetti, about the 2,000-square-foot fixer upper she and her husband purchased in Melrose nearly ten years ago. Nice light, a decent layout, and sweet architectural details attracted the designer, who owns Blissful Interiors, to the 1940s Cape Codder. It was certainly not the chipped kitchen cabinets and red Formica countertops that reeled them in. They swiftly swapped those out and did some other things to make the house livable. As they checked other easy fixes off the list, the couple learned that termites had rendered the back of the house structurally unsound.
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