"Two Designers Restore a Ridge Street Gem" [Cville Weekly, ABODE, March, 2010, by Katherine Ludwig]

“Our kids have left. Why are we doing this now?” That’s what local architect Giovanna Galfione says she and her husband, Maurice Cox, asked themselves repeatedly before embarking on a two-year, two-phase project to renovate their 100-year-old home in the Ridge Street Historic District. In phase one, they opened up the kitchen and added a bathroom on the first floor; in phase two, they reopened the first floor back porch and replaced an awkward second floor sunroom addition with a master bedroom, porch and bathroom. Aside from the obvious factors—time and money—the simple answer was this: “The house deserved to be preserved,” says Galfione.

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