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n by Jennifer Sergent | photos by Stacy Zarin Goldberg
Family Friendly THE DEMO WAS already underway when the pandemic shut everything down in March of 2020. Half of the main level of Missy and Lou Heinzer’s Arlington home was torn apart. Case project designer Allie Mann and project
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developer Elle Hunter asked their clients if they wanted to keep going. “I looked around and there were no walls!” Missy recalls. They decided to press on. For the next three months, the Heinzers and their three sons (now ages
7, 11 and 14) confined themselves mostly to the second floor while masked workers toiled below. The final outcome was everything the couple had envisioned—a casual, open, workhorse of a kitchen with double islands, bar seating, a showstopping mosaic-tile backsplash and a jolt of candy-apple red in the form of a 48-inch Bertazzoni gas range with
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