A House With Holes

<p><em>Reading this book feels like binging on a Netflix series because you have to see what happens next. You are invited to have a front-row seat to view what it took to create an amazing marriage while undertaking an almost impossible renovation. </em></p><p>—Dr. Larry Wagner PhD professor of counseling</p><p>Columbia International University Columbia South Carolina</p><p> </p><p>Seasoned renovators Greg and Denise Broadwater dream of owning and restoring a historic home in downtown Charleston South Carolina. What follows are six years of unimaginable challenges and successes concerning the renovation of their condemned 1920s Charleston Cottage their place in a transitional neighborhood on Congress Street and their thirty-year marriage.</p><p> </p><p>In a community that struggles to feel like home alongside normal stressors of full-time work and family weddings the heightened tension taxes the Broadwaters to the brink. Nothing is left untouched in their hundred-year-old cottage full of architectural and historical details from the rotted floorboards to the hole in the roof and the knob-and-tube wiring that causes a fire. But through Denise’s fascinating memoir <em>A House with Holes</em> the Christian author and therapist shares how she and her craftsman-architect husband strengthened the holes in both their home and their relationship during this wearying time in order to survive <em>and </em>thrive.</p><p> </p><p>Using Broadwater’s counseling experience marriage principles have been woven seamlessly into the text<em> </em>demonstrating ways to maintain relationships in the midst of struggles. Reflective questions close each chapter so that readers may ponder their own relationships with growth and understanding.</p>