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ERIN AND BEN NAPIER HAVE RENOVATED A LOT OF HOUSES IN LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI. THIS TIME, IT’S THEIR OWN

- SID EVANS

Growing up in Laurel, Mississippi, Erin Napier had driven past her dream house

countless times, but she’d never actually seen it. The stately, old brick Tudor isn’t visible from the road, so Erin had never realized what was hiding behind the rolling green fields and tall pine trees on a two-lane highway outside town. When her husband, Ben, sent her the listing in the spring of 2021, she couldn't believe she had missed it all those years. I was in love immediately—and that scared me to death,” she says. I thought, We don’t need another house...but maybe we do.