18 | Oregon Home eleste McGowan and her husband, Tim, knew immediately when they saw a 1,170-square-foot ranch set in the woods just outside of Tumalo that it would be an ideal setting to reinvent completely for a small family — their own. “We wanted to take something old and with history and breathe new life into it,” says Celeste McGowan, principal designer at Iron Roots Design, a design-build firm she operates with her husband based in Oregon’s High Desert. The original structure, built in 1911 and used as the schoolhouse for the town of Tumalo (pop. 720), was moved three blocks in the 1970s and had a number of funky additions. But it retained some vestiges of its past, like an old chimney stack buried in the walls and true original shiplap usual for the early 20th century. The couple took on the Photo courtesy of Celeste McGowan C
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