October 16, 2013
I bought my first house when I was 21! I bought my first house when I was 21 and I feel in love with owning my own house and decorating it and doing home improvements. I wanted to have a post for the progress the house went through before it's rented out. I bought the house in July 2009 and as I said before I was 21, and didn't have any sense of my decorating style so keep that in mind when you see the before pictures.
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| Front of house 2009 |
This is the picture from the listing when we bought the house. as you can tell here were a lot of . I'm not a huge fan of them so I donated them to the in-laws.
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| font of the house 2013 |
We never really did anything to the outside of the house that changed much of the look. This also doesn't represent what it looked like while we lived their either. you can see the tulips their on the left at one time there was a beautiful Azalea bush in the middle and on the right side where orange mums that came back every year (for 4 years) as long as you cut them back when they looked dead at the end of fall. The list of improvements we did have done was have a new roof put on, changed the outside lights (there is one on the side of the house too), and installed new windows.
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| Shed before |
I know this isn't the greatest picture of the shed but it's all I have. we had to remove it because it was rotting and a hazard.
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| Shed now |
We really lucked out to get this shed. Steve's Uncle was able to give us this one. oh and it's made of plastic so we don't have to worry about it rotting. I power washed it so it looks brand new but it's in reality more then 10 years old. Take that mother nature.
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| living room Christmas 2009 |
Unfortunately this was the only picture I could find of the living room from when it was GREEN. It happened to be taken when the windows were being installed. Not that you can really tell from the picture but we had an empty living room no furniture. This was kind of awesome for a young couple who liked to have party's because we would just move the dinning room table in for a beer pong table haha.
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| living room 2011 |
As you can see we grew out of the no furniture in the living room faze eventually. We received the couch as a wedding present or we would probably still not have a suitable piece of furniture for our living room. We painted the walls Bedford Gray from the Martha Stewart collection at Home Depot. Also painted the trim white to make it pop.
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| living room 2013 |
This is what it looks like now while we are waiting for someone to rent it out. The color is now
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| basement 2009 |
Steve is a huge Steelers fan and when we bought this house I told him he could have the whole basement for himself as a "Man Cave".
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| basement 2013 |
In the before picture of the basement you didn't get to see the wood wall. Originally I wasn't really sold on the all wood wall but now I love it. The basement is now Bedford Gray just like the living room was. Also the trim has been painted white and new carpet laid.
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| Bathroom 2009 |
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| behind the shower curtain |
Like I said I wasn't sure what my decorating style was I thought I wanted a bright bathroom needless to say it got changed about a year later when we did a total bathroom redo. I also got rid of the nasty plastic walls that moved when you pushed on them
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| during the renovation in 2011 |
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| bathroom now |
Told you we made the bathroom less bright. The color is Ice Rink from the Martha Stewart Collection again. I've always loved subway tile and luckily I have a husband and a backup husband (Hubby's cousin) who are very handy and LOVE me enough to take this bathroom on. The updates done over time in this room was new tile, subway tiles, a new vanity installed,new lighting put in, and the tub has now been re-glazed.
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| Master Beedroom 2009 |
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| Master Bedroom now |
I know it looks kind of small but this is the master bedroom. We never made very many changes in this room just changed the bedding over time. When we lived in this house there where no closet doors so we have added bi-folds to all the closets.
I wont add the other two bedrooms they are pretty much like the master and now all the same color with the same carpet and wall color.
I'm going to miss this house, no doubt about that, but it's time to move on. Maybe the next time we move will be back into a house! Wouldn't that be amazing?!?!
