Archive | house tours RSS feed for this section

pre-remodel house tour

8 Nov

The day finally came, we closed last week! I’ve done more paperwork than I care to remember in the past few months, especially having to switch lenders halfway thru, but we are done and we officially own the house! I resisted the very strong urge to demo something and anything right after we officially became homeowners again, but we are planning to start with a remodel of the upstairs bath soon as the very first task before we move onto the rest of the house.  In the meantime, I wanted to finally share a whole house tour (these pictures were taken right before we moved in). It’s currently 1630sf and 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, on almost 1/3 acre lot in Allandale. We plan to add onto the back of the house to add 600-800sf and convert a bedroom into a nice master suite and expand the existing kitchen and living space. It’ll be very open concept similar to our last house. More to come on that soon.

from the “living room” looking towards the front door and the stairs going to the 1/2 floor

the family room and the kitchen

the hallway towards the 2 downstairs bedrooms

downstairs bathroom

first downstairs bedroom

second downstairs bedroom

going upstairs…

first upstairs bedroom

second upstairs bedroom

upstairs bathroom

back down the stairs…

and outside!

our awesome huge yard

from the backyard towards the house

We have a lot of work ahead of us, don’t we? It’s ok, we aren’t scared :)

About these ads

house tour with before and afters!

18 Sep

Well, it looks like we are moving! The house went on the market a couple of weekends ago – we had multiple offers and it sold in 2 days. The new owners to be love the house and the area, and said they wouldn’t change a thing. We’re happy to see it go to someone who will love and appreciate it as much as we did!

We did find a house to move into and I’ll be posting about that as soon as we get out of the option period and it looks like it will happen. Right now I can say is that it was built in 1961 and is a pretty major fixer…it’s not our style (it’s a cape cod traditional with dormers and 1.5 stories) but we plan to modernize it and make it “us” as much as we can. The big seller for us was the area – great schools and right around the corner to the elementary school, and pretty close to Mike’s work and Zoey’s daycare. It’s gonna be a challenge to make modern, but we’re up for the challenge!

I wanted to share one final house tour with some before and afters. We had a stager come in before we put the house on the market and we decluttered a bit and switched around the living and dining room…looking at these old photos makes me so nostalgic and so proud of all the work we put into the house. This house was a labor of love for us, and it totally reflects us – our style, our personality, and our quirks. This house for us was literally blood, sweat, and tears.

More to come on that, but for now onto some before and afters!

EXTERIOR BEFORE

EXTERIOR AFTER

new smooth hardi siding, wood slat modern wall, lighting, yellow door, house numbers

ENTRY BEFORE (during reno)

ENTRYAFTER

custom metal railings, wallpaper wall, sealed concrete floors in sunken living, mineral black birch floors throughout, all new insulation and drywall and paint

SUNKEN LIVING BEFORE

AFTER

custom mineral black birch stairs, half wall (not shown) is a ledgestone

sofa is build a sofa, yellow lamp and pillows are homegoods, coffee table is four hands, yellow magazine holder is vintage, rug is angela adams

DINING ROOM AND HALLWAY BEFORE

AFTER

dining table is four hands, chairs are vintage milo baughman for thayer coggin restored, table runner from homegoods

HALLWAY BEFORE

AFTER

mirror is from the new martha stewart collection at lowes

KITCHEN/DINING DURING

AFTER

LAUNDRY BEFORE

AFTER

BEDROOM 1 (OFFICE) BEFORE

AFTER

BEDROOM 2 BEFORE

DURING (as Zoey’s room)

AFTER (as guest bedroom)

BEDROOM 3 BEFORE

DURING (as guest bedroom)

AFTER (as Zoey’s bedroom)

HALL BATHROOM BEFORE

AFTER

GUEST BATH BEFORE

AFTER

That’s all for now, I’ll post before and afters of the downstairs soon as well!

partial house tour!

20 Aug

I finally took some time to take some updated photos yesterday! We’ve been working on getting the house ready for the market. We are still finishing up some projects downstairs and I’ll share those soon, but the main level is just about set. It looks like the house will be live for sale in about three weeks, but if you know anyone looking for a house in Austin leave me a comment with your email address and I’ll send you the preview listing our realtor has posted online. I still can’t believe we are actually doing this after all the work and time we have put into the house, but it just seems like the right thing to do for us right now. We hope to downsize a bit in both size and hopefully monthly payment, be closer to Mike’s job and Zoey’s daycare, and have a place with a flatter yard where Zoey can play outside and maybe one day we can put in a pool…We’ve been looking at houses here and there, and soon I’ll post some pics of houses we are considering as well. I wish I could say we have come across something with as much character as this one, but I can’t say that we have. Which is ok, we can always add character. But, a few we are looking at definitely have some mid century flair/bones… more to come.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 481 other followers

%d bloggers like this: