Page 112 - South Mississippi Living - March, 2022

HOME & GARDEN
DIYCassie and Junior Buford have been do-it-yourselfers for a long time. However, they got into high gear
when their Ocean Springs home sold in 12 days and the house they were building in Vancleave was at the blacked-in stage.
“We moved in with concrete floors and one working bathtub where we did dishes and leaned over it to brush our teeth,” Cassie recalls. “He (Junior) can do everything, and we learned a lot when we fixed and flipped houses after Hurricane Katrina.”
Junior, who works for Cool Sys, says he “just learned to do things” on his own. “Cassie is very handy,” he adds.
For their new home, the couple contracted out the sheetrock hanging, roofing, and brick and Hardie Plank work. Their DIY projects were the cabinets, flooring, tile, tubs, toilets, sinks, painting, trim work, doors and windows, electrical/HVAC and plumbing.
“We wanted a new/old house,” Cassie, a nurse who works from home with Arkansas Urology, says. And that's what they have, a delightful mix of new, vintage and antique. All walls are painted with Sherwin Williams' Agreeable Gray and most of the floors are luxury vinyl tile that looks like wood planks. Quartzite is used on kitchen counter tops and venerable wood from a bar tops the island. The pantry is an old distressed door with a glass upper half. Inside a large antique sink and light fixture give this utilitarian space lots of zing.
Elsewhere in the home new doors are left unfinished to give a vintage look. In the living room, pecky
DONE RIGHT
story by Lynn Lofton photos by Katherine Sowers
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