It's Linda's mother's former house that she now occupies.
The small twin is not extraordinary when you consider other homes that have been featured in "Haven" - no amazing renovations, vistas, or history. But what the 100-year-old dwelling lacks in notability it makes up for in comfort.
It also reflects the quiet, sometimes quirky, sentiments of someone who restarted her life as a single woman about 10 years ago in this Chester County borough.
Kryven, a dog rescuer who grew up in Levittown, Bucks County, was renting an apartment down the street from her current home when she learned that Linda's mother was moving to a nursing facility. She called a contractor who was renovating the house and offered to buy it. He agreed.
It was perfect, Kryven says, because she was able to dictate what she wanted: granite countertops and oak cabinets in the kitchen, and a larger upstairs bathroom.
"That's what was so wonderful," Kryven says - being able to watch the yearlong renovation and talk about changes as they occurred. She had all the walls painted white because she likes bright, she says.
"While it was being redone, I'd peek in the window and see what was happening," she says.
One thing Kryven didn't touch were the doors. The ones original to the house are still there.
Her taste favors the eclectic. In the laundry area off the kitchen are a small hutch she bought in Massachusetts and a decades-old drop-leaf table. In the dining room are cloth-covered chairs and lilac curtains. A curio cabinet filled with plastic Santas stands in the small living room.
"It was the roly-poly one that got me started" collecting, Kryven says.
