Renovations

The House was featured on the T.V. Celebrities put on hard hats posed with sledge hammers. It was said that the old structure had ‘good bones’. What it did have were walled-in nocturnal whispers and a resident paranoia. Interior decorators re-imagined rustic hues a bohemian nest chic-est Rooms were staged and displayed yet beneath the contemporary the old retold its history. Much of the house was to be renovated pastel and neutral colors replaced flock and wainscots, yet bricked-over alcoves still dripped a dried red rust of long held rumors. The house concealed itself, but its fiber and pith, its conduits continued to throb-on echoing an older heartbeat, a retelling of long unsolved crimes thinly painted over.