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Turning Our House Into a Home

After about a year of construction, the house we purchased in 1999 was completed as the home we had imagined.

Archival exterior photograph of Thomas Fraley's first home after construction was completed in 2001
The completed house in 2001. The low-resolution source photograph is preserved as an archival image; it contains no readable address, street sign, or GPS metadata.

After about a year of construction, the project was completed on June 1, 2001. The single-story house we purchased in 1999 had been transformed into a larger two-story home.

This was more than a construction finish line. It marked the point when the place we had purchased became the home we had imagined for our family.

The story began with Buying Our First Home.