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For one designer returning to her Texas roots, a former parsonage becomes a heavenly home

- Kelly Allen

WHEN THE LISTING FOR A FORMER parsonage in Austin popped up on Shazalynn Cavin Winfrey’s phone at 6 a.m., the interior designer knew she had to have it. At the time, the owner of SCW Interiors was living in Washington, D.C., with her family. Itching to return to her roots, the Midland, Texas, native bought the 1989 structure sight unseen—despite its apparent disrepair.