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AT HOME
“This china is probably over 100 years old. When my great-grandmother passed, she was 98 and it was handed down to her. We have no idea where it’s from. My family comes from Norway, so that’s the best guess I was given. I would love to find out where it originated.” (Pictured top right.) think it was always in a china cabinet.” Next, we stopped in the room shared by the couple’s daughters, Layton and Kennedy. At first glance, it appears to be like any other kids’ room, with soft colors and neatly stowed toys, but as we soon learned, the family creativity is present there as well. The girls’ headboard is made of old shutters. Extra storage spaces have been built above the closet. Even the window hangings are custom. “The girls picked out the material for their curtains,” Caitlin said. “My mom does all my sewing, so she sewed the curtains for them.” On the wall closest to the door, above a massive vintage Orphan Annie dollhouse, hangs a framed drawing inspired by Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. To our surprise, the story behind the drawing is Buck’s. “This Beauty and the Beast picture was drawn for me by a sixth grade little girl when I was in sixth grade,” he recounted. “She was a really awesome girl and there were some boys making fun of her because she didn’t look the same as everyone else. I stuck up for her, and the next day she brought me this. I kept it all these years, and when I had my first little girl I gave it to her.” Caitlin laughed, “When Buck and I first started dating I went to his house and this was hanging in his room. I was like, ‘Okay…’ Then he told me the story and I was like, ‘Wow, I might love this guy a little bit.’” Next, we head to the gray-walled master bedroom, which Caitlin explains was recently repainted in the soothing shade, “It used to be bright red. I didn’t want to be in here. I felt like there was something making me not be in my room, and I discovered it was that bright, intimidating red. So we decided to go with this.”