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Section B
Thursday, November 20, 1980
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Audrey And Earl Timms
Renovate Old Homeplace
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“Ye Ole Homeplace", the
name selected by Audrey and
Earl Timms for their renovated
70-year-old house on Grover
Roiul, sets the old-fashioned at
mosphere of a house which has
been home for Mrs. Irene
Timms, 74, for many years.
Mrs. Timms’ daughter and
son-in-law have enlarged the
house to include a master
bedroom, bath, and sunporch,
while extending the porch
around the house and giving the
house a look all its own by pain
ting it gray and accenting the
shutters with burgundy.
“When Audrey and Earl
decided to come and live with
men in April we decided that we
needed more room and they
didn’t want to change the house
structurally but used their good
ideas and Audrey’s interior
decorating knowledge to create
wonders from an old house”,
said Mrs. Timms who has left
her bedroom and living area un
changed. At the same time the
Timms were renovating the
house, Earl Timms, a barber and
stylist, was looking for a place in
Kings Mountian to relocate his
business and move Continental
Barber and Hair Styling from
Gastonia.
“It has been a busy sbt mon
ths”, says Audrey Timms, a
petite brunette who has
decorated her home with her
own beautiful paintings and re
tained the sentimental flavor of
the house.
“It was difficult to get the
right shade of gray for our
house” admitted Audrey, who
used a clvrcoal grey on the
wood trim, posts, and spindles
and complemented the darker
gray with burgundy shutters.
The house was sealed and
sprayed with gray, a new roof
added, and a two-car garage in
addition to the enlargement to
include the master bedroom and
bath. The Timms closed in a
small porch which now doubles
as a sunny yellow breakfast nook
or a sun porch off their bedroom,
added closets and a paved
driveway.
Audrey and Earl Timms
worked together on both pro-
f jects, the remodeling of the
house on Grover Road and the
decorating of a mobile home
which is now located on York
Road, beside Reynolds Realty
Co, and serves as Earl’s business
headquarters for his barber and
stylist shop.
Earth colors are combined in
the decorations for both their
house and business.
F Audrey Timms, who used to
work with buyers in selecting
wallpaper for The Ervin Co.
model homes, used Swedish
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Story And
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Lib Stewart
chocolate and bone in the master
bath where she has included a
brown European bidget in her
bathroom fixtures. The Flame
Stitch wallpaper in the bath ex
actly matches two Flame Stitch
chairs in the master bedroom
which is decorated in earth
tones. An antique gold velvet
spread on the King size bed has a
matching bench and
reupholstered headboard and the
draperies are in antique gold
satin. An easel near the bed is an
example of Audrey’s piainting
talent, a seascape she completed
near Folly Beach. Other pain
tings in the room include a vase
of blue daisies. Audrey said that
her son had found the vase and
filled it with flowers. “It caught
my eye and 1 decided to paint it”.
Both realism art and impres
sionistic art are displayed in the
Timms house and are the work
of Mrs. Timms who also liked to
collect reproductions of Euro
pean paintings, knits, crochets,
likes to cook, and is a book
keeper with 30 years experience.
Audrey gives her husband
credit, for much of the im
provements to the house. When
Mr. Timms is not busy at his
shop, he works in the yard and
enjoys gardening. He designed
the porch, which surrounds the
house, and the additions.
Earl Timms learned to cut hair
as a hobby in the U.S. Mrine
Corps.
“I used to cut hair aboard ship
as a side line”, he said, and after
his retirement after 21 years ser
vice, he got into the business.
Timms attended the No. 1
school in the nation for men’s
hair stylists and in a franchised
Roffler stylist. He specializes in
the Dorothy Hamil wedge, the
short blow cut for women, and
the natural casual look, is not a
beautician and does not offer
permanent waving or coloring.
He has studied the Pivot Point
technique and features the preci
sion wet cut and blow dry, using
the curling iron when necessary.
He advertises as a stylist for
men, women and children.
Earl and Audrey Timms
returned to Kings Mountain in
March after living in Gastonia
for six years and before that in
Charleston, S.C. where Earl
retired from the Marine Corps.
“It was hard for the family to
move with Earl when he was in
the Marines but we lived in lots
of places and met many new
friends”, said Audrey. Timms
was a drill instructor at Paris
Island for two years, served
three different tours of duty at
Camp Lejeuene, and tours of du
ty in Miami, Fla., Wichita, Kan
sas and Charleston, S.C., among
others.
“It isn’t true that women
marry a Marine to see the
world”, laughs Audrey. “We liv
ed in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Ftorida
but Earl also saw duty in Korea
and Vietnam and received 18
medals and one citation from the
President for service with the
Marines. The Timms are parents
of two sons, Joey, 26, of
Bessemer City, and Alan Timms,
22, of Birmingham, Ala.
Decorating the Timms house
was a challenge for Audrey and
Earl Timms. There had been
some minor renovations to the
house after her parents, Mrs.
Irene Timms and the late T.J.
Timms, purchased the property.
There was only one small bath
and one closet. “We needed to
enlarge the house but we didn’t
want to change it structurally
because of the sentimental value
it has for my mother”.
Mrs. Irene Kinsland Timms,
native of Franklin, was married
to the late T.J. Timms, native of
Wallhalla, S.C. who owned and
operated Timms Grocery for
many years on Grover Rd. Their
son. Gene Timms , subsequently
operated the business as Timms
Stop N Shop and in recent years
as Timms Furniture.
“We didn’t lose a tree during
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PORCH IS ACCENT — Audrey Timms, on ban
nister, Allie lackson, and Mrs. T.I. (Irene)
Timms sit on the porch of the 70-year-oId
Timms home which has been renovated.
Audrey and Earl Timms completed the expan
sion and redecorating of the house while mov
ing their beauty and barber business to Kings
Mountain and opening up a new shop in
town.
LOOK AT HAIR STYLES - Audrey and Earl Timms look at pic
tures of hair styles in Mr. Timms new style shop on York Road
which the couple recently redecorated, along with their house
on Grover Road. They completed both projects and moved
from Gastonlo In less thon six months.
TALENTED ARTIST - Audrey Timms displays
one of her favorite pointings which ore
featured throughout her home on Grover
Road. Audrey and her husband, Earl Timms,
recently renovated their home and hove
decorated it with many of her own paintings.
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EXPANSION - Audrey Timms stands at her easel in the
bedroom of her home which is decorated in earth tones and is
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a new addition to the family's home on Grover Road. Mrs.
Timms painted the seascape.
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RENOVATED TIMMS HOME ON GROVER ROAD - The home
of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Timms and Mrs. T.I. Timms on Grover
Road has token on a completely new look. The gray house
with burgundy shutters sits in a setting of autumn foliage. The
addition of the porch, master bedroom, master bath and
garage were added by Eorl and Audrey Timms ond gives the
house a "Ye ole Homeplace" look all its own.