Couple reinvigorated after downsizing, moving to ‘Holy Ground’

By Rita LeBleu American Press

Charles and Karen Woodard decided it was time to leave their 5500-square foot house on the w River. The land had been in the family for over 100 years. Now “home” is a charming 2,800-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath, raised center hall cottage in Terre Sainte, a Lake Charles development off Sallier Street.

They couldn’t be happier with the new place and credit “the best team they could get” for making the process, down to the smallest detail, fun.

“The place on the river really was a beautiful piece of property, one of the prettiest in Lake Charles,” Karen Woodard said. “We loved it, but our bodies didn’t love it anymore.”

They didn’t want yard work. What they did want, according to Charles Woodard, was a historical “cottage like the ones in the New Orleans upper garden district that had been restored by a couple of yuppies.”

The first team member they settled on was Jen Inman, a New Orleans architect who lives in Lake Charles. Her