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Photo courtesy of Johnsen Schmaling Architects When Jeff and Linda Feist bought their West Milwaukee bungalow in 1990 for about $60,000, they expected to upgrade a few years later. Twenty-three years have gone by, and the house, which today sits in the shadow of Miller Park, is still home to the family of five. But they’re finally looking to change that. Crunching through the frozen snow in January, the Feists approached a gray colonial on a corner lot in Franklin, just down the road from the Milwaukee County Sports Complex. The house is listed at $228,900 and would be an…

  Photo by Pete Prodoehl. This story appears in the April 2011 issue of Milwaukee Magazine. by Kevin Kosterman    Read the entire article by calling 414-287-4333 or 1-800-662-4818 to subscribe or purchase a single issue.

photo by John Cizmas It was a yellow Cape Cod. Cute but quaint. Walking through the Wauwatosa home on North 65th Street, Jeremy and Sara Monty, a young married couple moving from Michigan, weren’t quite sold. The house had lots of character, with a mishmash of window types and trims, and sat on a nice, tree-lined street bordering Center Park. But maybe it was too quirky. “There were just a bunch of things we didn’t like,” Jeremy says. The basement was too small. It had oil heat. “I was afraid the house was going to blow up,” Sara says. But…