A Family's 2020 Vision

Clearly it’s a good year for change

- By Susan Lagsdin

Four years ago, beginning to feel cramped in their East Wenatchee condo, Greg and Shannon Lone and their young daughter Hali searched for a larger family home.

They looked all over the valley balancing square footage, budget, acreage and ambience until close friends on Fancher Heights suggested a place across the street from them. Built in 1993 on an almost three-quarter-acre lot, it had all the features they’d dreamed of.

The Lones were immediately impressed by the generous width of traditional red brick, formal but not unfriendly, of the Federalist-style house.

Then they stepped inside and saw mountains looming beyond the foothills from Malaga to the Enchantments and the curving silver expanse of the Columbia River.

When the family met that big, elegant house, it was love at first sight. That was 2016.

Now, it’s time to move on from the relationship, with resolve and a little regret. The house stayed the same. What changed?

From the outset, their local business, Paramount Financial Advisors, kept Greg busy most days, and in the new house Shannon had unaccustomed time and space to indulge in her homemaker-mother dream. She relished caring for the all-white kitchen, sleek expanses of shiny wood flooring and established landscaping.

Even for a small family, the 4,134 square foot home seemed at the time like a good choice.

TIME FOR A CHANGE