…before we really started working on it…

From here we can see from what used to be the front window into what the previous owners had made into a “tv room”. Originally it was a covered porch. NGL, I’m super grateful they did this reno for us. Even if they did use wood panelling. The grey “wall” to the left is a book case and that area would eventually have a wall put up by my dad and uncle to close in the “office” and create a “foyer”. Sadly, I didn’t think to even take befores of the whole house. I did take afters of (almost) every room once we had it ready to move in.

Here we see the awesome dining room where the wallpaper literally fell of the walls. I wasn’t mad about it because it was a 1960s shimmery wallpaper that had seen better days. It also wasn’t well installed because it fell off in sheets if you looked at it wrong.

Not pictured is the kitchen, middle door is the closet (for linens maybe?) that functions as my baking/cake deco supply storage. The doorway you can see goes into the hallway. This room stayed empty until after our first Christmas because we literally had NO dining room furniture and couldn’t afford it because we’d just bought a house and had to do a LOT of work to make it livable before we moved in. We closed in April, moved in May 1st and had to be finished by the end of the month because we could NOT afford to pay rent, a mortgage payment, and for what needed to be done.

What you don’t see that needed to be done was refinishing all the hardwood floors. I was SO grateful for the hallway door here because we could do the bedroom floors, go down the hall to the living room and work our way to the kitchen, go out the back door and stay out for 8 hours, come back and start all over again. We have to redo these floors (and actually finish the hallway floor) as a top priority. They are well-worn at this point and there’s no amount of chemical cleaner that will fix them.

Stay tuned for a walk-through of the OG renovation/decoration…