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HGTV to feature home that now lives up to its setting

By WAVENEY ANN MOORE
Published January 15, 2006

	[Times photo: James Borchuck]
	The kitchen in the remodeled Cammick residence has a 1950's feel and features a boomerang pattern on the counters and flamingos and palm trees on the Florida themed wallpaper. The house is going to be featured on HGTV.

ST. PETERSBURG - Peter and Vivian Cammick bought their Historic Old Northeast house when they were 36. Eleven years later, it has been transformed into their dream home, an elegant colonial revival they'll share with TV viewers across the country tonight. The sage green house on Coffee Pot Boulevard NE will be featured on HGTV's Generation Renovation at 6:30 p.m. and again on Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.

The Cammicks are ambivalent about the publicity. They are, though, ecstatic about their renovated home.

"We are very much enjoying it. We designed it to have people over and to have parties," Vivian Cammick said.

"The idea was to design everything we wanted," said her husband, senior vice president of sales for an Oldsmar technology services company.

Getting everything they wanted required about $400,000 and patience. The whole project, which included additions to the house, was done in four main phases over six years, the Cammicks said.

"I just didn't realize what we were in for. Nobody tells you these things. It's like childbirth," Vivian Cammick said.

A highlight of the three-bedroom house is the retro kitchen with its Florida-themed wallpaper and classic stainless steel appliances.

"Originally, it was very inefficient. There wasn't any counter space and the appliances were just unusable. It was about half the size it was now," Vivian Cammick said.

"It's wonderful to look at," said Terry G. Perkins. His Madeira Beach firm, Terry G. Perkins Design Build Remodelers, was the contractor. Gritton and Associates Architects of Tampa was the designer.

Perkins said the Coffee Pot house was one of the most ambitious projects he has done.

"We essentially transformed the exterior and interior of the whole house and the garage," he said.

Built in the 1920s, the house had been modified over the years, said Perkins, 54. The recent renovations included the introduction of soaring columns at its entry, the combination of two bedrooms into a master suite and the addition of second-floor balconies "where you could sit outside with a glass of champagne and watch the sunset," the builder said.

The house also has a sweeping veranda at the back.

Perkins is pleased that the home will be featured on the popular home improvement channel.

"I consider myself the luckiest guy alive," he said. "I go to work every day and do something I love, and for my work to be recognized like that, I'm very fortunate."

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