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MORE THAN FOUR WALLS I f anyone understands the beauty of BY TIFFANY HORTON PHOTOS BY MOLLY KENDRICK AND HAYLEA MORGAN
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Morgan, include “sitting around somebody’s house eating dinner and talking.” The most important part she says is making sure that “everybody feels heard and everybody seems to feel important and acknowledged.” “Community” is the word that seems to be the foundational focus for ETX Revival. Their latest project, the old Masonic Lodge building in Wake Village, seems very fitting to this concept so close to their hearts. Under the direction of the Masons, the building served not only as a Blue Lodge, but was also used for the Lions Club and rented out for community events. While much of the secret society of the Freemasons remains mysterious, building community has always been a central theme for them as well. It was actually a vacation to Mobile, Alabama, that prompted the project. They stopped at a coffee shop while enjoying the historic town, and as they looked around,
friendship, it is the owners of ETX Revival. Made up of two couples, Haylea and Justin Morgan and Caitlin and Alex Rice, the entire business was founded on friendship. According to Morgan, the company actually “started as a joke.” The couples had been helping each other with personal projects and tossing around the idea of flipping a house together. The next thing they knew, the foursome bought a foreclosure, and their Hazel House Project was born. The group works full-time jobs outside of their ETX Revival gig, so they do all the work in the evenings and on the weekends, completing 90 percent of the projects themselves. They have slowly learned new techniques, and everyone rolls up their sleeves and jumps in on the work. Central to their work culture is business meetings, which according to
ETX Revival—Justin and Haylea Morgan with Caitlin and Alex Rice.
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