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A New Life

A formerly contemporary home
eases into a world of warmth.

Lynne Konstantin I Design Writer
Brett Mountain I Photographer

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wenty-two years ago, when Sheri and Ron
Loeb moved into their 1952 Huntington
Woods tri-level house, they couldn't have
been happier with it. About five years ago, Sheri, a
social worker in Troy Public Schools, began to have
a change of heart. "I stopped loving the [modern]
tri-level look:' she says. "I wanted something more
traditional."
When she told her husband, a wealth management
adviser with Merrill Lynch, he didn't want to leave
the Huntington Woods community where they'd
raised their three children. So they recruited their
renovation dream team — Ilene Techner, a licensed
builder and contractor and owner of Itec Enterprises
in Birmingham; John Morgan, designer and owner
of Perspectives in Royal Oak; and Barbara Wauldron,
owner of Wauldron Design Associates in Beverly Hills

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— and set to work on what has resulted in Sheri's
dream home.
"John is masterful in his creativity," says Sheri.
Wauldron — the recent first-place winner of the
American Society of Interior Designers Michigan
Chapter 2011 Design Awards for Residential
Renovation — "has exquisite taste and wonderful
ideas."
And Techner, who also is a family friend, "works
so differently from other contractors I've dealt with:'
says Sheri. "She takes her time with you, she keeps
you on schedule, she works in your price range and
she'll go everywhere with you — like picking out
hardware — to offer ideas. It's a really trusting rela-
tionship, and she promotes that."
And the end result speaks for itself. "Our home is
so much warmer now:' says Sheri. "I just love it."

