“It was never on my radar to move to the lake,” said Lisa Woolard, who recently retired after 27 years at Bargainier Davis Sims Architects Associated in Montgomery, where she eventually headed up the interior design department.
But when Woolard saw her husband, Paul, shopping online for a lake house, she knew that an idea he’d mentioned in passing a few weeks earlier was definitely in her future.
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