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I bought one of Sicily's famous $1 homes and spent $446K renovating it—take a look inside

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Meredith Tabbone spent nearly half a million dollars renovating her dream home in Italy .

The Chicago financial advisor spent the last five years renovating the property in Sambuca di Sicilia .

She says her goal was to build a vacation home where she could also host visiting friends and family.

"The attention to detail, the quality of the items, the ability for these buildings to last for centuries. It's just not done anymore," she says.

Overall, she feels it's important to preserve old buildings like this that can't be recreated with modern materials or building sensibilities.

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