Monday, November 21, 2005

Before




Here are earlier pictures of the inside of the house when we first bought it. And also one of the dining room after removing the carpet and replacing the ruined wood floor, but before restoring the trim. The floors in the front three rooms and the hallway of the house had been drilled full of holes by the hundreds of screws that the previous owner had added before carpeting in an attempt to stop the floors from squeaking. This is no exaggeration. We have a liter bottle full of the screws that we removed. Some of them were even bolted under the house. I will post a picture of the bottle soon. Discovering that our wood floors were ruined on the second day of ownership of the house was the most depressing thing that has happened in our journey of home ownership.

There is also a picture of the olive green bathroom unfortunately you can't see the "Victorian toilet" patterned wallpaper that was on the wall with the sink.

We have lost the digital files of two of the worst rooms in the house:

1) the "country" kitchen- think yellow and orange flowered wall paper, 70's paneling,dropped fluorescent lighting and pine curved plate rails.
2) the half paneled and wall papered front bedroom with acoustic tiled ceiling.

1 Comments:

Blogger meuli said...

Hello:
I have a bungalow built in 1926. I loved seeing the pictures of your home. Do you have any after pictures of your bathroom. I am about to do a remodel and your bathroom is similar to mine, very narrow.

Thanks for you help.

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