ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 23, 1994                   TAG: 9411030126
SECTION: FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT                    PAGE: 2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BETSY BIESENBACH STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short


COUPLE SPREADS OUT AND FIXES UP DOWN UNDER

When Mary Crowder bought her two-bedroom home in Salem in 1992, there was plenty of room for herself and her son, J. R., now 15.

But last year, she got married. Her husband, Mark, and his two children, Steven, 12, and Shannon, 6, moved in, and things got a little crowded.

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