When Chris Vinyard and Mary Kathryn Wells set out to buy a house for their family in Nashville in 2015, they focused on the essentials: location, size and condition. If they could find a home with good bones, they figured, they could wait to undertake a renovation that would reflect their sense of style.
That’s how the couple ended up considering a solid yet boring house in the 12 South neighborhood. “It was a very bland, totally builder-grade, developer-built spec home,” said Ms. Wells, 44, an interior designer.
But the 2,500-square-foot, four-bedroom house seemed nice enough, and there were few other options, so they bought it and moved in.
At $535,000, “it was at the very upper end of what we were even thinking was feasible,” said Mr. Vinyard, 42, a founder of Clarion Call Media, a music promotion company. And Ms. Wells was expecting the second of their three children, now aged 7 through 12, so they had little free time, or spare funds, for renovations.
The house served its purpose for nearly a decade, and they gradually made a few piecemeal improvements, like replacing light fixtures and wallpapering the children’s rooms. But by last year, things had changed.
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