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A once perfectly ordinary property now has plenty of personality

When world traveler, reality-TV star, animal lover and interior designer Jany Lee moved from Toronto, Canada, to Lake Highlands five years ago, she wasn’t looking for a turnkey purchase. She preferred something she could mold, shift and stamp with her unique style.

“I was looking for a fixer-upper, a diamond in the rough,” she says. The keen-eyed artist found her palette in Merriman Park, in a simple brick ranch-style 2,400-square-foot home built in the 1970s.

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