EDITOR’S LETTER
Who doesn’t love the delicious voyeurism of our Before & After issue? Seeing how these fabulous renovations began proves how much blood, sweat, tears (and dollars) flow into these renovations – something it’s hard to imagine when you’re looking at the finished results. The way to connect with the wonder of the job is to start at the very beginning to get your head around the enormity of the transformation. Before & After issues give us time to stop, look and really appreciate how the projects on these pages have come about and, in turn, how they’ve changed the lives of those inside. I mean, I’d look as happy as our covergirl, Angela O’Connell, if that was my completed house! You can see plenty more of it on page 46…