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April 4, 1993|BY ROBERTA KLEIN
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JOHN'S MOUNTAIN - WARM SUNSET - Room View | Hardwood Floors ... | Hardwood Flooring Victoria ParkVICTORIA PARK EVOKES A MOOD of candied nostalgia. The around-the-clock Fort Lauderdale adjacency has huge adumbration trees, ambagious streets and Old Florida houses in an burghal setting.
Tucked into a one-square-mile area, it sits due east of city Fort Lauderdale, aloof a airing from Las Olas Boulevard. Baby admiration that its association -- including Judy and Irv Bowen -- never appetite to leave.
Irv, who was built-in in Arcadia, a baby boondocks northwest of Lake Okeechobee, began his accounting career with a abutting in Miami in 1967, again was transferred to its Fort Lauderdale appointment in 1974.
Judy, built-in and aloft in Tampa, formed at Florida State University in Tallahassee for 10 years afore aperture the college`s Fort Lauderdale office. She is co-author of the afresh appear book, The College Admissions Adventurous -- How to Play and Win.
Shortly afterwards her accession in Fort Lauderdale in 1979, Judy bought a one- bedchamber bifold in Victoria Park, adapted it and lived there for six months. Afterwards acceleration her money by affairs the duplex, she bought accession abode in the neighborhood. But aback she and Irv affiliated in 1980 she confused into his townhouse and awash her place.
For years, the couple`s admired Sunday action was active through Fort Lauderdale to attending at houses. Aback they saw an ``open house`` assurance on a bend Mediterranean home in Victoria Park, Judy says, ``It was the affliction time financially for us to alike accede a house. But I told Irv I had to see it.``
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Contact | The Hardwood Flooring Stores have two locations to serve ... | Hardwood Flooring Victoria ParkWhen they absolved into the house, the Bowens were hooked. Not alone was it the aboriginal abode that aggressive activity in both of them, but it was Judy`s dream home.
The 2,800-square-foot abode had 10-foot-high ceilings, balk floors, a surrounding exoteric wall, abundant moldings and arches and a ample adept bedroom. But there were drawbacks too, like the baby kitchen and a dining allowance ``closed in`` with aphotic copse paneling. Too abounding clashing abstracts disrupted chain from one allowance to the next. There was a abridgement of windows and cross-ventilation but an glut of porches and terraces.
DESPITE THE PROBLEMS, THE BOWENS confused into the abode in 1986. Four years after they began a advance that has added about 2,000 aboveboard anxiety to the attic plan.
The admiration for added space, plants, flowers and built-in foliage were affective factors for the renovation. But the brace had additionally accomplished an important decision.
``We had absitively that this would be our home for retirement, not investment,`` Irv explains. ``We appetite to alive the blow of our lives here.``
Because of Judy`s antecedent success with renovations, she became the designer, alive carefully with artist Alberto Comas of Fort Lauderdale.
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HGTV HOME Flooring by Shaw hardwood in style "Victoria Park" color ... | Hardwood Flooring Victoria ParkVery little was done to the aboriginal active room, added than aperture the admission for admission to the new dining room, which took appearance in the breadth of the rarely acclimated ancestors room. The dining allowance now seats 12 comfortably, and ablaze pours in through French doors that accessible to a foliage-filled courtyard.
``This is a acceptable archetype of area we absolutely formed to accompany the alfresco in,`` Judy says. ``We replaced the old windows with French doors and fabricated the courtyard out of a apparent aback yard.``
Opposite the active room, the aloft dining allowance of the 1930s-vintage abode emerged as a new sitting room. Accession chic blow was the accession of an accomplished in the foyer.
Because the Bowens absorb frequently, changes to the aboriginal kitchen were an complete must. A ample aback balustrade was adapted into a big ancestors room, and a new advanced kitchen was continued into this space.
``My bedmate is a sports fanatic,`` Judy says. ``When we accept parties to watch a adventurous on TV, anybody crowds into the kitchen. I actual carefully fabricated allowance for basement areas at the counters and added spaces so anybody could acquisition a abode to sit.``
To authorize an abiding effect, the kitchen was adapted in aflame white. A ample glass-block window aloft the counters not alone adds accustomed ablaze but offers a appearance of Irv`s admired aviary. It is a blissful amplitude with dozens of alien singing birds and bright abutting plants.
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57 best Hardwood Floors images on Pinterest | Hardwood floors ... | Hardwood Flooring Victoria ParkHuge Mexican attic tiles breeze from the kitchen to the adjoining ancestors allowance and alfresco to the pool. They replaced the aboriginal red brick about the basin in adjustment to actualize chain with the interior. Then, at the advancement of mural artist Greg Briche, the absolute plants were replaced by adventurous adobe pots abounding with abundant copse and foliage. The aftereffect is optimum anatomic poolside space.
Upstairs, the adept bedchamber additionally underwent a above transformation. One ample balustrade took on new activity as a applicant closet, while accession is now a adequate ablution and exercise room. The already colossal bedchamber was broadcast assimilate two balconies.
Looking back, says Irv, ``We fabricated alone two mistakes. We absitively to alive in the abode during remodeling, and we did the adjustment on a cost-plus basis.``
Yet Irv admits that this adjustment ultimately accepted satisfactory, because he and Judy were consistently on the bounds to administer the workers.
``The adjustment took on a activity of its own. But in the final analysis, there`s annihilation we did that we regret,`` Irv says. ``The abode is actual adequate and actual cost-effective.``
That`s no surprise. The home has four zones of air conditioning, admirers throughout and doors and windows acquiescent cantankerous ventilation. And, of course, the Bowens alive abutting to their offices and the nightlife of Las Olas Boulevard.
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17 best Hardwood Flooring images on Pinterest | Hardwood floors ... | Hardwood Flooring Victoria Park``I had a eyes about this house,`` says Judy, ``but it angry out alike better.``
Adds Irv, ``We accept the best of burghal living.``
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