We’re not plugging this just because we know the author
By Dave
April 18th, 2008 | Leave a comment
Akron Beacon Journal columnist David Giffels bought a ramshackle house, a mansion, really, and began a 12-year odyssey of repair, restoration and renovation until it looks like it does today (Disclosure: the Beacon Journal is our former employer). He and his wife, Gina, pulled it off without building a mountain of debt.
He wrote about it in the paper early on before finding other subjects. But he kept writing about his experience, and in May it comes out as All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, published by HarperCollins.
The house is featured in a New York Times Home & Garden article, complete with before-and-after photographs (Check out the aluminum baking pans lining the master bedroom floor to catch all the drips).
Giffels is alternately earnest and funny, and he wears his affection for hometown Akron on his sleeve. Expect to find that in his book.
