Alexander City natives Steve and Sharon Fuller bought their Lake Martin cabin on a breezy point in Jackson’s Gap before they were married in 1980. With just four rooms and a small screened porch, the cabin had to grow as the family grew. Only a few years in Atlanta took them away from their cabin, but they returned to the place where they started and began filling the home with a lifetime of memories.
“Our first renovation idea began when we came home from our honeymoon and found that the roof was leaking just a few inches from our brand new couch. We both went up on the roof to look at the problem and said, ‘Wow! Look at this view. One day let’s build up.’ And that’s what we did,” Sharon Fuller said.
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