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Real Estate: Tom Kelly
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April 2, 2009
The Real Estate Adviser: How to age-proof your house
By Tom Kelly
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
One of my friends just added a gorgeous, walk-in shower to a first-floor bathroom that sits nicely behind a kitchen pantry and easily is accessible to the kitchen, den and home office. The huge rectangular glass-door enclosure features a sliding shower head that can rise more than eight feet above the stone floor.
“Are you expecting grandkids that will be 6-foot-7,” I laughed.
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