This Old House

You did it!

Tin-ceiling success

TOH Insiders: Andy Przystanski and Mariel Nunez Santos, Adams, MA

My wife and I have spent the last eight years renovating our 1890 home, which needed a complete overhaul. We loved its decorative steel ceilings but couldn’t rewire the house without destroying them. With the help of my father, who raised me on and we painstakingly installed new

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