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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Lisa Chauvin loved to take a chair into her sunroom after work, drink a glass of wine and watch the birds fly over her peaceful view of the canal and preserve. But, despite the awe-inspiring view, the room lacked serenity, and she didn't have a clue how to fix it.
Chauvin, a 12th-grade teacher, had moved into her two-bedroom Coconut Creek, Fla. condo after a divorce. Andree, her sister, was helping her get settled when they saw Martin Amado's "Room for Improvement" segment on Miami's WSVN-Ch. 7's newscast. The segment was an epiphany and Chauvin decided to ask Amado for help.
"I would love to make it a special retreat _ one in which to escape the stresses of the everyday world," she wrote Amado in her e-mail. "But I just...
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