Homeowner Jackie Wise is quick to admit that she and her husband, Jimmy, didn’t really know what they were getting into when they purchased their 1950s fixer-upper in Jimmy’s hometown of Springville, Alabama. “After we bought the house, we gave my sister-in-law and brother-in-law a tour, and after we finished, they were both very quiet,” she recalls. “All my sister-in-law said was, ‘Well, I’m glad it’s you guys and not us.’”
After 11 months of renovations, the Wises moved into their rustic new home. The couple did much of the work themselves, including demolition and the completion of the exterior addition of the primary suite. “We’re handy people,” Jackie says, “but this project definitely took us to a level that we’ve never really been to. We’re not contractors by any…
