From the street, the one-story brick ranch at the top of a small incline and nestled between two white frame residences looks slightly out of place, and there is good reason. In the 1980s it was moved to the location from a neighborhood a mile away when it was in the path of Interstate 170 construction.

The outward appearance also belies the work that has been done inside by Jim Stukenbroeker since he and his wife, Gloria, moved in 29 years ago. If the decades-long project had a theme, it might be “now you see a wall, now you don’t.”

He removed a wall to add more space to the kitchen. When all the children were grown up and gone, a wall was taken down to change two bedrooms into one and create an office for Gloria. When Jim’s mother moved in with the couple two years ago, he added a wall

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