I had a wonderful time today at our annual Historical Association Christmas party. It is always nice to meet people who are like-minded and to discuss preservation and the future of our city. I was reminded again today that I never posted pictures of the first bungalow redo that Steven and I took on. After looking at them, now I realize why I probably did not let these out…they are hideous!!!! Even though a lot of them are disgusting, I did not post the really bad ones. They are just not for polite eyes. 🙂 So, without further ado, here are the pics. This is for you Brittany! (You probably won’t be flattered by that after you view the pics…haha)
BEFORE front
AFTER front
BEFORE side
AFTER side
BEFORE kitchen
AFTER kitchen
BEFORE kitchen
AFTER kitchen- we have since retiled the counters too
IN PROGRESS dining room
AFTER dining room
BEFORE living room
BEFORE living room
BEFORE living room
AFTER living room
AFTER living room (looking into dining room)
BEFORE Sunroom back door
AFTER hall
BEFORE entrance to bathroom (took down the weird hall addition to the bathroom down and added a small closet laundry area)
AFTER weird hall gone, laundry added, new door frame to bathroom
BEFORE bathroom (this is one of the better pictures...seriously)
AFTER bathroom
BEFORE bath tub (UGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
AFTER bath tub
BEFORE back bedroom
AFTER back bedroom
As you can tell, I didn’t take very many pictures of this redo and the ones I did take, were not very good. However, I think you get the drift. This house took us nine months to complete from start to finish. We had extensive inside and outside work. We had a new roof put on. It had termites really bad, had to get that treated. When we first bought the house, we went in with gloves up to the arm pits and clothes covering everything (If I owned a pair of waders…I would have had them on!). If you think these are bad, I have some pics that are worse. We found a drowned possum in the bathroom. Apparently a family had been living in the attic. Squirrels would get in the attic too! Yikes…. I don’t think we ever saw a rat. We had lots of holes we had to fix. We also redid all of the flooring, adding new to the kitchen, refinishing the floors in all of the other rooms. We added a new front door. Painted and caulked every surface. Paint, caulk and quarter round will cure a lot of ugly….
We cleaned up the yard and pressure washed the house. We painted the outside window frames, door and door frame. Too much to list here. We did it all!
Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday!
Andrea
Perpetual Renovator 
Wow. Color me speechless. I’m not afraid of a little bit of asbestos, but that much mold makes me feel ill just looking at it 🙂
Yeah! The sad part is that tub was still being USED! Ewwww!!!!! We ripped out everything and poured a couple gallons of bleach in the tub. The tub cleaned up nice…surprisingly. I don’t think the baseboards or kitchen had been cleaned in YEARS!!!!!!!! We though the paint color on the trim was brown. It wasn’t until we cleaned that we realized it was actually cream, but with all the dirt it just looked brown…yuck!