Our perfect little house went on the market this week. We have loved this house for over a year now, but we found a new house we love even more. In celebration of the house being under contract to sell, we wanted to recap everything we've done in the last 15 months.
Outside: New shutters (and painted some of the old). Kevin installed a beautiful new storm door. We took off the rust from the old railings, and painted them black. We had the railings welded in broken places.
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We didn't have to do much here, but did have the fireplace painted and chimney swept. In the entire main floor of the house, we had the floors refinished, which they were in desperate need of.
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Kitchen: Painted Kitchen. We also removed some HUGE box stereo speakers and old doorbell speaker (the wires of which were covered up by a smoke detector) and had drywall placed over it.
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Back Entry: We had a drywall guy come and drywall over the super weird texture all over the entry way, and had holes fixed that had been punched in the wall. Then we had so much fun making this cute striped pattern and adding new hanging fixtures.
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Stairs to the basement: Added a railing (because Kevin didn't want his preggo wife to fall!) and painted the wood paneling
Basement: There was a large (400-500 square foot) part of the basement that was unfinished that was screaming for a little TLC. We converted it into an office for Kevin by having the floors painted and the ceiling sprayed black. We love it! We didn't do much to the finished part except paint the doors.
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(you can see wood paneling pre-painted here)
(Our basement now...it got a little paint makeover)
This place was gross storage (gross walls....gross floors....everything)
Laundry Room: The laundry room was our very first project in the home, because we were able to work on it with other things being done. We painted the floor, parts of the walls, and hung our huge "Laundry" sign that I love so much.
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Guest Bedrooms & Nursery: We installed new fixtures (see below) and a fan in the studio/guest room. The didn't need to paint much in the hall/main bath/bedrooms or do much else. Throughout the house we had electrical work done to allow us to hang fixtures up to code, change around some weird wiring in switches that made zero sense.
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Master Suite: This one was the biggest change for us. First, it was SUNSHINE yellow. (the photos on the listing don't do it justice). We painted the entire hall, ceiling, walls, bath...everything to tone this down. We replaced carpet to plush lovely carpet throughout. We had lights installed in the bedroom to allow for overhead lighting. We framed the mirror to give it a little TLC and put a new light fixture in. Then our favorite part, we had the bathroom closed off from the main bedroom (who would want that open???). Then painted everything to match.
In the process of ripping up carpet and painting!
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Backyard: The prior owners had a trampoline which killed the grass in a large part of the yard. They threw mulch over it...so we spent a bunch of time digging that up and reseeding this summer. It was a great project. The owners also decided a good idea was to cut a hole into the garage and set a fridge in the opening....a fridge! We decided rather than a fridge, a door was much more needed it its place, so we had that cut into the side with a few steps.
weird fridge.....
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Honestly, we are so sad to see this house go. We've loved it...truly we have. We love the 1920s charm, beautiful wood floors, and especially the neighborhood. But looking back at everything we've done these past 15 months of work...it is wonderful! It is amazing to think when we bought this house we had JUST found out about little Lorelai (although we did not know she would be a girl!) and things have truly changed so much for us!
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