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She’s the boss of all her houses

HGTV’s “Tough as Nails’’ will follow local luxury McMansion builder Cindy Stumpo. HGTV’s “Tough as Nails’’ will follow local luxury McMansion builder Cindy Stumpo. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
By Christopher Muther
Globe Staff / March 7, 2010

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NEWTON - It was during the construction of his house three years ago that Watertown-based television producer Ed Lemos noticed something curious about his contractor, and it wasn’t simply that she was a shapely woman in True Religion jeans and Ugg boots ordering around a crew of brusque and burly builders, plumbers, and electricians. (Full article: 1075 words)

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