RENOVATING OUR REGION
LOCAL COUPLE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE HOMES
It’s blueberry season! Whip up this simple muffin recipe to celebrate in style.
INGREDIENTS
Lonnie and Malinda Shughart may look like your standard house-flipping husband and wife duo, but that’s not even part of their vocabulary.
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1 cup soy milk 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
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1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
“We do more than flip,” says Lonnie. “We renovate homes.”
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1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp canola oil 1 tsp vanilla extract
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2 cups flour
Together, they own Shughart Construction — a design and home renovation business that pulls together Lonnie’s expertise in home maintenance and construction with Malinda’s eye for design and her real estate career. Their path to this point was almost kismet. It began nearly 30 years ago, when Lonnie enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. He served his country, following in his father and father-in-law’s footsteps, for 20 years and 28 days, retiring in 2014. He and Malinda moved back to the Tampa area from where they were stationed in New Mexico, and Lonnie was promoted to stay-at-home dad. Meanwhile, Malinda immediately started her real estate business. (She now works with Lombardo Heights Realty.) Eventually, Lonnie went back to work doing maintenance at MacDill Air Force Base. That led to handyman work around the region, and as his talent and expertise continued to grow, Lonnie and Malinda took on a big step: They partnered with friends to renovate their first house. Since then, the Shugharts’ meticulous and well-designed work can be seen in numerous homes across the region, including projects for current homeowners with big dreams of improving their space. For Lonnie, seeing families enjoy their newly renovated homes is a source of pride. “I love the area. The views are awesome, and the communities are awesome,” says Lonnie, who adds that updating and renovating older homes in a growing region where new developments are common is a way of putting a little love back into the community. Together, Lonnie says he and Malinda make a great team. She has an eye for well-crafted design, while Lonnie has the tools and expertise to make it happen. Though Lonnie does a lot of work that doesn’t require Malinda’s real estate background, the duo often works together on their whole-home renovations and trusts each other’s instincts.
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2 1/2 tsp baking powder
Zest of 1 lemon
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1/4 tsp baking soda
2 cups fresh blueberries
1/2 tsp salt
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 375 F. Grease a muffin tin and set aside. 2. In a bowl, combine soy milk and apple cider vinegar. Set aside. 3. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. 4. In a third bowl, combine sugar, oil, vanilla extract, and lemon zest. Add milk mixture and stir, then add flour mixture. Stir to combine until well-incorporated but not smooth. Fold in the blueberries. 5. Spoon batter into muffin tin, filling each well 3/4 full. Bake 20–25 minutes, cool, and enjoy!
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And for this veteran, working with his hands, creating something for the place he loves to call home, and collaborating with his wife is a dream job come true.
You can learn more about Shughart Construction on their Facebook page or by calling 813-928-5251.
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