Anyone
who has shopped for a house knows the process can be fraught with anxiety. The
commitment. The responsibility. The mortgage payments. With worries like these,
no wonder we become timid, risk-averse. We flock like lemmings to tract
neighborhoods, where boxy houses stretch in rows to the horizon.
The bravest among us march to the
beat of a different realtor. They don’t want the square, little lawn. They
roundly reject the ubiquitous Colonial. They seek out the unusual, the
creative, the houses that truly express who they are.
Here’s a look at the unique homes of
three local families who weren’t afraid to go where no developer has gone
before.
This article appears in Oct 9-15, 2002.
