#family-home

#family-home

I fully expected when we decided to divorce that the house would be half his, even though the deeds were in my name. I had bought it before we met so it was my mortgage, and he would never have been in a financial position to purchase property at any point,

"Everything was blue underneath, from floor to ceiling," says vintage dealer Robert Ropertz. It's just the kind of surprise one encounters when scraping through layers of paint and wallpaper in an 1865 building. Then, there's the crooked floors, crumbling clay plaster, and leaky roofs, all of which illustrator Andrea Weber and Ropertz, who is also a painter and preservationist, took in stride.