Author: Lauren Payne

Want to get your house off the market fast? Here are some tips on how to receive top-dollar for your home.

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Josh’s Coastal Chaos

December 19, 2013

This place is a breakfast-lovers’ paradise, but lunch is just as tasty. Coastal Chaos serves all the basics, but come for something different.

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You won’t find a TV or video game in this renovated 1870 farmhouse. But far from grousing, the kids happily cook, bake and even knit. Come Christmas, making decorations from scratch is a family affair.

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This 75-year-old Italian restaurant, located half a mile from the Atlantic City Boardwalk, is an American Institution.

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This imaginative New Vernon homeowner (and busy mother of five) wanted rustic and rugged in her new kitchen. Her wish list included a stone sink.

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The Beanery

October 16, 2013

A coffee and sandwich shop that boasts superb service and charmingly mis-matched tables and chairs.

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Bay Head: Restore

October 4, 2013

Christine and Jed Laird decided to restore their summer cottage in Bay Head, one of the oldest in town.

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Point Pleasant homeowners Carlos and Maria Santos raised their house above flood level requirements, before getting the go-ahead from FEMA.

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After Sandy wrecked her 1940s Cape-style home, Manasquan resident Rita Gurry decided to replace it with a modular home.

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Following the worst devastation the Shore has seen in decades, the PBS series This Old House documents the repair or replacement of three Sandy-ravaged homes.

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