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Here is a home I purchased in 2013 for a winter project. This home had excellent curb appeal and didn’t need much on the exterior. I knew I could re-sell it quickly.

Let me show you some before and after pictures of the interior improvements made. I was only two-thirds of the way done when I had a signed contract for full asking price. I owned this home for less than three months.

The pictures were taken without foresight of making a slide show but they will certainly give you the general idea.

ORIGINAL KITCHEN

Joe, my amazing son and right hand man, looks over the kitchen as I explain some of the changes I’ll be making.

The original cabinets were good so we concentrated on removing this valance, adding some molding and giving the walls, ceilings and moldings a fresh coat of paint.

This doorway doesn’t make sense to the overall flow. I’ll board this up and place the refrigerator here.

ORIGINAL KITCHEN

The cabinets will stay. I’ll add some crown molding and paint the walls.

ORIGINAL KITCHEN

This corner conceals a chimney that will be torn out. This will add to the usable square footage as well as allow things to be opened up.

This doorway leads to the bathroom and bedrooms. I’ll cover this up for a place to put the refrigerator.

This is the entrance to the living room. It needs to be bigger to provide a more open floor plan.

The tile floor needs to be replaced as it is all cracked up and grout is missing in much of it.

ORIGINAL LAUNDRY ROOM

This room is pretty bad. It needs new windows, ceiling, flooring, painting and more.

MORE OF THE ORIGINAL LAUNDRY ROOM

ORIGINAL MASTER BEDROOM

This is a good size room that did not function well as a Master Bedroom. The plan is to make the bedroom smaller but highly functional by adding a walk-in closet and a full bath.

This closet is small and useless. It will be taken out to make room for the new bathroom.

ORIGINAL LIVING ROOM

FRONT DOOR

Take note of all the cupping in the hardwood floor.

One of two doors into this bedroom. Since the bedroom had no closet I will add a closet, taking living room space away, but making for a much more functional bedroom.

ORIGINAL LIVING ROOM

This area will become the entrance to the hallway leading to the bathroom and bedrooms.

This is the entrance to the kitchen. We will open this up after removing the chimney behind the wall.

ORIGINAL BEDROOM #1

This room is the most challenging room to fix. It has two entrance doors and a third door leading to another bedroom. And, it has no closet.

We’ll make this door a closet door. The closet will actually project out into original living room space.

This door and wall area will be reworked to allow for separate entrances to both rooms from the hallway.

ORIGINAL BEDROOM #2

The biggest issue for this room is you have to walk through another bedroom to get to this one. The door configuration will be reworked to correct this.

THE DESTRUCTION PHASE

There wasn’t a lot of things that needed to be torn out but here is the most interesting one. This is the chimney that originally serviced the wood burning kitchen stove and the main fireplace. It was later lined so the house could be heated by an oil furnace placed in the basement.

This brick chimney projected through the roof. There was 12’+/- of brick setting on top of these four little 2x4’s nailed to the uprights. The amazing thing is the chimney was still in great shape after more than 70 years.

I didn’t notice until now that my right hand man is always sitting???

After the brick was torn out it revealed the stainless steel chimney liner for the oil fired furnace.

Removed valance over sink and added a nice crown on top of the cabinets.

Installed a new Allure floor.

Created the right place for a refrigerator.

Patched, caulked and re-painted the entire room.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

Installed a new Allure floor.

Installed new trim, patched walls, caulked, and painted walls and ceiling.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

This living room was transformed to a more open concept and provided easier access to the rest of the house. The floors were refinished and everything was re-painted.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

Removing the door and enlarging the opening transformed this entire house.

This is where that chimney used to be.

After removing the built-in shelving unit and opening up the walls we created a hallway leading to the bathroom and bedrooms.

This wall is where we added a closet to Bedroom #1.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

Here’s another look at the bedroom closet we added and how we opened things up to the bedrooms.

The old entrance to the bedroom is behind this wall serving as a closet door now.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

The old entrance door is now a closet door.

The door to the other bedroom has been taken out and the new entrances to both rooms was re-configured.

Here are the two smaller bedrooms. The biggest challenge in these rooms was re-configuring the doors to provide separate entrances for each room. The bottom right picture shows the new entrances to these rooms. We also refinished the floors and the walls and ceilings were re-painted.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

This is the Master Bedroom. Notice a wall was added to create space for a bathroom and walk-in closet. The new owner requested I leave the door untouched because she liked the finish it had. I was going to paint it white.

This door leads to a ¾ Bath and a walk-in closet. By re-configuring this space I changed a big bedroom into a Master Suite.

It’s hard to take pictures in tight spaces but here is the new Masterbath and walk-in closet. Albeit on the small side this provides the functionality needed for modern day living.

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