THE FIRST TIME Kiera Coffee walked into her Prospect Heights apartment 27 years ago, accompanied by a real-estate agent, "every single room was Pepto Bismol pink," she says. "The bathroom had been retiled in pink, there was a pink shower and pink kitchen counters, and I was told that the former tenant lived without a stove because it couldn't be pink." But Coffee noted that the tenant had done a beautiful job replastering the ceilings and had also restored the wooden window frames and built window seats that overlook the tree-lined street.
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