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ranch dressing A fad of the '50s is rediscovered and reinvented by Rebecca Teagarden   Jayne Michaelson lives in a Ranch house. She also lives in a Craftsman. It's the same house. In fact, it's the very house where she grew up watching the whales go by. "My mom did not want to live here after my father passed away," she says. "She didn't want to be here, but she didn't want anyone else to be here, either." So Jayne and her husband, Gene, sold their great big 1980s executive-style house, bought Jayne's childhood home and the Great Transformation of the 1950s Ranch into a Cranchman began. "It was emotional for all of us — except my mother. She thought it was great," Michaelson says of the stripdown that took the house to its studs. A structure that started life at about 2,000 square feet in 1959 was reborn at 3,200 square feet in 1995. "I was banned from the project for the first three months," she jokes. But Michaelson wanted a Craftsman, because "we like a little bit of an informal feel."