Flashback: Before Pictures

These are the pictures that were posted of the house when he bought it. 

You can see that the house definitely needs a little 

style help and a few modern updates. 

Warning: Long & Image-Heavy Post Ahead. 

2 Bedroom/1Bath Bungalow

1300 sq/ft

House Front

Front of the house is adorable, but this green porch carpet has to go.... my favorite thing about this house has to be all of the great windows and light!

Backyard 

Awesome backyard, but it needs some cleaning up. The house is on a 1/4 acre lot. I'm crossing my fingers for a back deck or nice concrete patio in the future. Come bbq with us!

Living Room

I love the huge windows in the living room. This room will be getting a new finish on the walls (more like less-finish...they're currently super textured and would cut your arm if you bumped into them!), fresh wall & trim paint, and eventually the floor will have to be leveled (it's like a fun house with the slanted floor) and get new carpet. 

Kitchen

 This kitchen could explain my lack of cooking posts for the blog... the floor plan and appliance placement is terrible. That stove completely blocks use of one of the (crooked and terrible) cabinets. (What were they thinking???) This room will be getting new cabinets, a new floor plan (with the stove and fridge both situated on the left wall), and eventually much larger (cross your fingers for 18") new tile. These walls also have the crazy texturing, so they will be sanded down and painted as well. As for the positive aspects of the room, I love the two big windows over the sink and how bright they make the room. 

Laundry Room

The laundry room is part of an addition to the original house and the back wall is covered in windows. This room needs a new back exterior door, some additional cabinetry/storage space, fresh paint, and will get the same new tile as the kitchen. This room also has a very narrow staircase down to the basement storage area. 

 

Guest Room

The guest room is located off of the living room at the front of the house. Sorry this picture is so dark, it does not do justice to the TERRIBLE green paint on the textured green walls. The walls have a terrible plaster mud swirl texture with extreme peaks and valleys that would be dangerous to bump into. This room also has a makeshift built in closet that looked a little "ghetto" for lack of a better description that will be ripped out. This room is currently carpeted, but the plan is to rip that out and finish the original hard wood floor - wish us luck. With hardwood, and fresh paint for the trim & walls, this room will be a brighter happier space!

 Master Bedroom

The master bedroom is located in the middle of the house and has an addition off of it (same addition as the laundry room) that will be an office space. It currently has a closet, entrance to the bathroom, and entrance to the office. The closet will be demolished to make room for that master bath (I'll explain later).  A new/larger closet (YAY!) will be built into the mystery wall (not pictured - Rand likes to imagine it was part of the underground railroad...hmmm) that has about 8-10 sq/ft of unused space closed into the wall between the master bedroom and the kitchen. Strange right? No wasted space in this little house for us please... This room needs some sheet rock work from removing/inserting new doors for bathrooms & closets, re-finishing on the wall texture, fresh wall & trim paint, and eventually new carpet. 

Office

This room is located at the back of the house and completely surrounded with windows on the exterior walls. It has a closet and some great shelf space. This is currently Rand's tiny make-shift bedroom while the rest of the house is a CONSTRUCTION ZONE!  He likes to joke that he feels like he's camping.... it fits his queen size bed with about a foot of space on each side. This room will eventually be painted...not sure whether we'll paint over the wood paneling (we kind of like the lined texture with paint - imagine beadboard) or remove it. 

Bathroom

This was the one bathroom in the house and even though it was pretty big, it felt small because of the cluttered layout and huge tub (a really cool claw-foot 1930's vintage cast iron tub is hidden under that framing). Sadly, these beautiful plaster mint green walls, wood paneling and chair rail will be the first to go. This bathroom is being completely demolished to create a small guest bath and a nice size private master bath with a big corner shower. The journey from ugly bathroom to two beautiful bathrooms is project #1 and progress will be posted soon.

Please join us on our journey from 

Out-Dated 2BR/1BA 

to 

Fabulous & Fresh 2BR/2BA 

....crazy me working on someone else's house, but maybe I'll live there one day ;) 

For now, I'm just making the commute to Sandy a few times a week to help with remodeling when I have time away from work. Pray that I don't get a speeding ticket & that gas prices will stop going up and things should be just fine!

So if we seem like we've disappeared or aren't as much fun anymore or you notice that I have paint in my hair...it's because we've traded laser tag and double dates for sanding walls and painting trim. 

Oh the fun we'll have...