See this old house? It used to be a charmer, but it’s had a bad run of luck and is in desperate need of rescue. It’s on the market for only $149,900, but it needs some TLC. It looks to me like it has been stripped of much of its character over the years, and that makes me sad. So let’s play one of our favorite games, called “Five Changes.” Take a look at these photos and then tell me: If you bought this house, what are the first five changes you’d make?
This poor house is in desperate need of some personality, but I think it has potential, don’t you? What 5 changes do you think would make the biggest difference? This house is in an area of gorgeous older homes that I showed you photos of here and here.
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I love old houses. This one does not look nearly as bad as some I’ve seen. I clicked on the listing link but it didn’t come up, so I’m only going by what’s here.
The five things I would do:
1. Strip all the woodwork and restore it to its original finish. Can I cheat and include the floors?
2. Restore the fireplace, including the built-ins that I think were there, judging from the windows.
3. Gut reno the kitchen and put in something historically accurate–Shaker-style cabinets, wood floor or tile, maybe even real linoleum, soapstone or marble countertops, etc.
4. Gut reno the bathroom. Hex tile on the floor, subway tile on the wall, clawfoot tub, pedestal sink, the works. It looks like it needs some footprint reorganization, too.
5. Install some period lighting. I don’t see ceiling lights in the first or second interior pictures, and the other rooms seem to have fluorescent tubes or ceiling fans.
It’s really a beautiful house. It seems to have been well-maintained, so maybe the wiring, plumbing and other mechanicals would actually be in order.
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I guess that listing is no longer valid, as the link is not working. As for my five things:
1. Rip off the wood paneling over the fireplace & replace with a great period mantel.
2. Gut that g-d-awful bathroom! Is that 50s or 70s? Either way, it couldn’t have been chic in any era!
3. Paint out the crown moldings, which look intact.
4. I was hoping not to have to gut another room, but the kitchen really needs it!
5. Take off the horrible carpet runner on the stairs and refinish wood.
You’re right–looks like it has sold, so I removed the link. I like your ideas so far! -Julia
LOVE that front door and the porch! So charming! The floors look great too! The woodwork in the dining area looks original?
There are Craftsman details on the stairs. I even like the tile in the bathroom! I hope the people who bought it (great deal!) will restore and not remuddled it further!
This house has so much character and is a steal for that price! 1. Update kitchen with new cabinetry,floor, and appliances. 2.New fireplace surround. 3. redo bathroom, 4. new light fixtures 5. add some color to front of house. Keep everything new to the style of the home. Cindy
LOVE that little house! I could eat it up!
I’d definitely do something about that mantel, the kitchen and that bathroom. It really is a charming house.
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Potential? Are you joking? it’s gorgeous!!
A new kitchen and bathroom and some paint and fixing up the mantle area and that’s a happily ever after house.
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I would trick it out with a deep golden yellow paint color with red accents…sort of go Spanish style because of the arch, even though the house itself is not Spanish. I just think it would make it really stand out from the crowd.
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I agree with what everyone else has said…how’s that for a cop out? Does anyone think that living room is an awkward space? Maybe it is just the angle of the photo..
Janet
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i hope it has sold. that house should never sit empty.
i agree with what everyone else has said – refinish the wood, paint, gut/redo the bathroom & kitchen.
not exactly small things, but how gorgeous could that house be?!
sorry i missed your birthday! happy belated! (we were out all day yesterday)
xo
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1) Remodel the kitchen
2) Remodel the bathroom
3) Restore the staircase and put in a Sisal runner
4) Restore all woodwork
5) Paint the mantle
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I’d renovate the kitchen and baths, rehab that fireplace and paint the woodwork a nice bright white, and add some color to the walls. I love this house!
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Great ideas! I love the blue in the bath – just some updates to bring it up to date. Keep that tile floor in-the bath! Some paint in the den and carpentry around the fireplace -and you are in a new house!
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Love it! I love the front door the most! I don’t know why so many Cincinnati residents feel the need to neglect these beautiful old homes.
1. Strip and restore woodwork
2. Gut and reno kitchen
3. Gut and reno bathroom (may have to be first on the list since that blue is AWFUL)
4. Revamp the fireplace with builtins, new mantel, etc. like what we did in our house http://homebio.googlepages.com/livingroom
5. Remove or Replace radiator covers
What a gorgeous home…that door is out of this world!
Gut and reno kitchen
gut and reno bathroom
Gut and restore fireplace
Sorry..but I would paint the woodwork in DR
Take the vertical blinds off the sunroom…and sit and enjoy those windows!
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Totally agree with Emily. Aside from the K and BA, I think it just needs some paint and light fixtures…and I’m in! Since I usually have to make things more complex than necessary, I’d also have to strip the woodwork. But gosh, who wants a house with no projects??
I’m glad this place has sold. It’s far too lovely to be lonely!
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And, oops, I forgot about the mantle/panelling. So odd and random!
Btw, I went back to the lovely 80s post of similar subject, and that still packs a punch–the house itself and the comments. I think that post is one for the HoH Hall of Fame!
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This house is lovely! It needs a little TLC but I LOVE the wood floors. I was doing okay until I got to the picture of the bathroom. GAG! Seriously turned my stomach. Okay on to my 5 things (assuming money is no object since this is a game…fun, fun!)
1. I would rip out that fugly paneling over the fireplace and try to restore it to its original beauty.
2. I would paint all the rooms some of my favorite colors.
3. Eww the kitchen is pretty bad too, I would re-do the whole thing. New white cabinets, new floor, new appliances, everything and then paint it a pretty color to warm it up.
4. The bathroom….makes me feel sick! haha This is another room that would have to be totally gutted. A blue tub and sinks??? What the? EVERYTHING would have to go. I suppose the tile could stay but that even has blue on it.
5. I would replace the outdated light fixtures/ceiling fans.
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The house lacks scale, and I think returning the windows to a historic profile would help a lot – just get rid of those existing replacement windows. In one of the pics it even looks like the windows have no mullions, but rather a pattern etched upon the glass to mimic mullions (yuck!).
I agree with the suggestions to paint exterior and interior trim an accent color, although I would keep the palette subtle. I’m thinking more English than Spanish.
This house begs for a backdrop that extends compliments it’s wonderful form; therefore, I think the landscaping needs considerable development. Although the house appears to be in a subdivision of some sort, it needn’t look like a newly sited tract-house development, so let’s get some ground ivy, maybe a side trellis and vine, perhaps some largery shrubbery along the back of the property.
Lighting
Redo the entire bathroom
Over haul the kitchen
Paint the wood in the room where it is 1/2 way up the wall.
In my opinion there are too many windows in the front of the house. The four uptop look odd.
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First off, I am not playing the $$$$ gutting game, I am playing according to the “cosmetic changes for now” rules.
1) Paint all the interior woodwork white and walls a light neutral to make the woodwork pop
2) Paint that fireplace white and build a new mantel and built-ins under those windows.
3) Paint the exterior a soft yellow or gray and then paint that yummy front door red to make it POP!
4) Paint the bathroom walls a soft yellow and the counters lime green, giving a tropical feel
5) Okay, okay, the kitchen is a total gut, but meanwhile, paint the walls a soft neutral and the cupboards white and maybe even remove the doors. Of course, clean off all that grime before even beginning.
Blessings, Shay
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I actually think this house is not too bad, other than the kitchen and bathroom. The bathroom is a gut, but say you’re not made of money and can’t afford to gut the kitchen too, you could put some molding on the cabinet doors and crown molding on the top of them, paint them and add some nice hardware.
The fireplace is the next obvious fix. Pull the ugly carpet off the stairs and take down the horrible shelves on the wall below the stairs. Get rid of the awful vertical blinds in that fantabulous sunroom, and get some fabulous chandelier to replace the bad one in the dining room.
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1. Add some color to both the exterior and interior.
2. replace the facing on the fireplace with a more classic mantel and stone.
3. Give the kitchen a face lift my replacing the cabinet doors with ones that are more visually interesting.
4. Update the bathroom completely.
and
5. Add more curb appeal.
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I love the house… I would so buy it. Here are the changes that I would make :
1. Fancy up the fireplace. It needs a nice recycled antique mantle and frame.
2. “Update” the kitchen with creamy colored cabinets with bun feet for a more era appropriate look.
3. Gut the blue bathroom! Widen the window and place a claw foot tub under it, make a “water closet” and a standing hutch for towels and bath stuff. Pedestal sinks and fancy gilded mirrors.
What a cute house! I thought it looked great minus the kitchen. I would do some landscaping and maybe change the bathroom counters.
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This house is so cute! I would love to move in it. I would work on the kitchen first, then the fireplace and bath and beyond a little paint I think I could be happy.
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Hey, I’d move in as is. It has 100X more character than my 1980’s-built house. Then, I’d have these renovations started:
1) Gut the kitchen (This is a no-brainer.) Of course, I’d replace it with period appropriate cabinetry.
2) Gut the bathroom. Tell me, what year was blue and orange a trendy color scheme?
3) Replace the fireplace surround, mantel. And remove that horrid panelling?! above it.
4) Remove carpeting from stairs.
5) Paint the exterior, using more than one color, so that architectural details are accented.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the door, and the sunroom (especially its windows!)
I wish I were able to purchase this sweet house.
-Michelle
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Kitchen, bathrooms, fireplace (ugh), paint. I think it’s beautiful.
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1. Do some research on the original windows and replace the “modern” ones for ones like the originals.
2. Gut the blue bathroom and start over from scratch. Reproduction fixtures.
3. Replace the paneling with reproduction builtins, in keeping with the era of the house.
4. More research for the kitchen, which needs to be gutted. Go back to the cabinets, true to the era.
5. I’m wondering if that last photo shows a formerly screened or open porch. I think it would be lovely, returned to whatever it was originally.
All these are expensive little redo’s, but I can see a diamond in the rough and I am dreaming,here.
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Ditto to what Cindy said. My name happens to be Cindy, too, btw! But that is exactly what I
wanted to say. Hugs ~cindy ~ (PS Julia, I love your blog, it is one of the best in Blogland, in my humble opinion)
That fire place definitely needs the craftsman style, built in shelves and maybe add stained glass to the windows. Paint colors to define the moldings and architecture of the rooms. Definitely some color on the outside would play up its features.
Oh, man! Only 5???!
1. Add some color to the walls
2. Kitchen renovation: cabinets, appliances, weird radiator thing
3. Bathroom makeover–it hurts my eyes!
4. New lighting
5. Rip off that wood paneling over the fireplace and do a new treatment
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Cindy S–don’t sell yourself short. If you say this is one of the best blogs in Blogland, then I think we should all take your word for it! -Julia
1. Color inside and out
2. remodel kitchen, give it all the modern conviences with the feel of it’s glorious past.
3. remodel baths, (same as with the kitchen-make it modern but with the feel of old time)-get an eagle claw soaking tub back in that house!
4.look up original house plans and try to find photos to help restore some of the old features-like the porch, and the windows are not matching. Needs the right light fixtures with the correct scale. Great stairway though just need to get rid of the ugly shelves under them.
5. The yard needs some curb appeal-badly!-LOVE the front door with the side lights like that!!!
6. (I couldn’t just stick with the six-lol) Restore a focal point in the livingroom needs the fireplace and mantle make over!Tare down the fugly wood around it.
I think this house has good bones-and what a price-unheard of in these parts! What a fun project for some lucky buyer. At least all the wood seems to be intact, floors and walls (thats not cheap paneling folks!)-how lucky is that?
I always love your post like these Julia! If I could do anything I wanted it would be buying and renovating homes. Not just to make money but because I love doing it so much. Give me the ugliest house on the block and I will make it the best house on the block!
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1. New roof and paint job on the exterior. That front door needs to stand out and shine!!
2. Landscaping and get rid of that boring, straight, concrete pathway to the door. A stone pathway with moss growing between the stones would be perfect.
3. The windows above the front door look awkward. I’m not sure what I would do there, but that whole section needs to be reconfigured somehow.
4. Remove the shelves on the wall below the stairs and add LOTS of wainscoting to this whole area.
5. Totally redo the kitchen and bathroom.
Kelly @ DesignTies
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What a gorgeous, perfect home. Here is what I would do to move in & get comfy…
1) redo the kitchen-lots of white marble & white wood cabinets, new appliances
2) update bathroom new tile, bath, sink, toilet…
3) replace runner on stairs
4) replace mantle with more traditional mantle
5) pull off book shelves, spackel & paint EVERYTHING a fresh coat of “Atrium White”.
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This house is beautiful! It just needs a little love. 1st, I would paint the outside a soft yellow (like a butter color) and I would trim it out in Cottage White. 2nd, I would paint all of the woodwork and trimwork inside the house cottage white and replace the mantle with an ornate one painted cottage white. 3rd, I would paint the top half of the walls in pastel colors such as soft pink, soft aqua, soft yellow, soft baby blue, everything SOFT! 4th, I would change out all of the lighting and put beautiful cottage white and crystal chandiliers. 5th, I would put lacy curtains in all of the windows and bring in beautiful white shabby furniture and beautiful pastel area rugs inside. I would probably leave the bathroom as is and just work around those colors. Aqua is really in right now.
Oh I LOVE this house, it could be soooooo cute…
First thing I’d do over is the kitchen..then the bath….this could be a stunner Julia !!!
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1. Reshingle the roof in a charcoal colour.
2. Paint the exterior either a muted blue or a muted green with fresh white trim on the windows and the front door.
3. Temporarily paint the panelling around the fireplace to match the room until I could find an appropriate mantel.
4. Replace the bathroom countertop. I could live with the blue but the orange counter has got to go.
5. Replace the rads with underfloor heating, assuming that’s technically possible.
The longer-term project would be to gut and replace the kitchen. This house is a real gem waiting to be polished.
I’m not going to state the obvious on the kitchen, bath, mantle, chandy, etc
1. Take off the storm door(It’s Cincy not FL) so you can see the fab port hole front door
2. Add cushions in a rich marine/navy blue and white wide awning stripe fabric to the benches on the front porch and add a couple cute patterned pillows in bright colors
3. In the dining room, rip out the old rad cover and install a custom rad cover/banquette that runs the entire recess.
4. I’d actually have to put a hit out on anyone who’d paint the dining room wainscotting
5. I think I’d keep the blue tile in the bathroom but I’d definately take down the potty wall
I love this house Julia!
1. I don’t think those windows in that step fashion on the outside are original so I would try to figure out a way to get that fixed.
2. Gut the kitchen and give it cottage style.
3. Take the wood off the front of that fireplace and if there wasn’t a mantel underneath, put one back on.
4. Take the wallpaper out of the bathroom and paint it white, but keep the rest of the retro charm.
5. uncover all the radiators and show them off.
Then it just needs paint, but I guess that would be 6 things
rue
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Hey! Doesn’t anyone like those retro 50s bathrooms?? LOL
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You are right, this home screams potential! I can’t believe how cheap homes are in the US. This home would be worth about $1 million in Australia, if it was in a good suburb, even more perhaps – that’s about $500,000 US dollars. I think I need to move over – I could live in a mansion!
So what would I do? 1. Landscaping 2. Strip and restain the floors – perhaps a deep dark brown. 3. Repaint all walls and wooden wall panelling white. 4 Bathroom and kitchen remodel: inspiration would have to be Something’s Gotta Give. 5 French doors.
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This house is so gorgeous! I can see that it has major potential.
First I would re-landscape the front yard. It is really lacking in street appeal. That tree and all the box shrubs really need to go. I’d love to see some color. I would lay down a brick walkway and line it with flowers.
Second that kitchen has got to go!! I would completely re-do it with all of the modern day conveniences, but a look that fits the time period of the house. The current 70’s look is really not doing it for me.
The same goes for that awful bathroom. Gut it! It needs a claw foot tub, pedestal sinks and a chandelier along with some additional modern lighting; maybe some recessed lighting. That florescent tube light is just terrible!
Fourth that mantel needs to be restored. I would tend to believe that the original house had built in cabinets on either side of the fireplace. I would have some made with stained glass door fronts.
Fifth, although I know the original house would have had natural wood molding, I would paint all of it white; baseboards, chair rail, paneling, doors and paint the walls a nice neutral color. White would make all of the detail of that gorgeous molding really stand out.
That’s a cute house. Something needs to be done about those windows in the front of the house. That would drive me nuts. I would paint all of the trim white and redo the kitchen and bathrooms.
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redue the kitchen. the mantel in the living room would have to go brick. the windows facing the street would have some sort of bright curtains in them. paint the house a tan/brownish color. the main door would have to have stain glass around it for privacy or take out the glass all together for security reasons. i dont care for that door way at all. call in a priest becouse the house looks spooky. was there a murder there or something? weird.
Super house! What a special place and for only $148K? Don’t know where it is… I agree with everyone here and also get rid of that antennae on the roof!
I really love this kind of houses. It has so much potential.
1.- I would first remove the uggly carpet in the stairway and the wood paneling
2.- I would change the kitchen entirely / or at least paint eberything white (cabinet included). Same thing with the bathroom remove the wall paper and change the terrible counter …..
3.- The den has a lot of potential.
I’ve seen worse.
Where’s the blue shag? The Pepto-pink paint? The rats?
At most this house suffers from the delusion that taking out walls and “opening up spaces to the flow!” improves everything. No, not really. Most old homes were, in fact, based on plans designed by actual architects who knew what they were doing. It is the hubris of the modern age that we think we know better and start taking down walls willy-nilly, resulting in these modern “bowling alley” spaces as seen above.
Walls are good. Walls are our friends! Really.
I would drive a stake through the heart of that horrid 1970’s fireplace and attempt to build some “division” in the enormous stairway room with furniture placement. The kitchen could use a refacing (I’m presuming I have my real budget and not my fantasy “if I won the lottery” budget). I’d splurge on better counter tops.
I’d try and salvage the bathroom with period details to make the tile seem more appropriate and less circus-like. I might, however fail.
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I’m working from the assumption, based on Julia’s comments about the neighborhood that it’s in, that this house could be improved significantly and successfully resold for a much higher price. Accordingly, extensive renovations are justified from a $ standpoint.
1. Exterior — the single most offensive thing done to remuddle this house is the placement of the windows on the diagonal going up the stairway. That is antithetical to 20’s/30’s architecture. I agree with the poster above who suggests researching the original window styles and restoring them to that. With that knowledge in hand, I’d eliminate the three narrow stairstepping windows and replace them with two across the top matching in size and aligning with the window above-left of front door. This tear-out would require restuccoing the exterior or at least a good patch job — in turn the house would have to be repainted and I would use a warm medium orangey-peach to make it stand out. Trim would be bright white and front door rust. It looks like the storm/screen door is original so I would leave it (painted rust). Paint the ceiling of arch over the front door light blue with a touch of aqua in it. The built-in benches flanking the front door are a charming feature — they’ll stand out more against a colored house and I agree with another poster that bench cushions would jazz them up (maybe rust/white awning stripe). Back to the windows — good eye to the poster who picked up on how the windows appear to have etched mullions. I hate the fake snap-in ones but in this case they should be acquired, as the replacement windows appear to be custom casements, which would be prohibitively expensive to replace with custom true divided light casement windows. The roof looks shot so replace with dimensional shingles in dark brown. An extra-picky detail — replace the diagonal lattice underneath bumpout on left side of the house with square lattice; the former isn’t period appropriate.
I know that’s more than 5 things already but those changes would definitely draw people to this now-blah house.
Interior:
2. There are ducts in the floors, probably for central air. Redo the heating system to use the ductwork and eliminate the radiators (selling them to an architectural salvage place). The radiators and radiator covers are taking up valuable wall space in a number of the rooms. This will require some minor floor repairs. Too bad this wasn’t done before, as the floors appear to have been refinished recently. For those who don’t like how they look, just give it time. They will darken up. Stair runner carpeting can be removed at this time so that floor finishers can do stairs while fixing radiator pipe holes.
3. I agree with Kymberly that the bowling alley living room is most unfortunate, but see no telltale signs from the floor that the room was once divided. Also, the alignment of the openings to the dining and sun rooms indicates “one room” to me. One hopes that the camera lens is mostly at fault for elongating this room. I agree with others that the paneling on the fireplace needs to go, with the original under-window flanking built-in bookcases reconstructed. By eliminating the strong vertical lines of the paneling and adding horizontal lines with book cases (with multi-paned glass doors of course) I think the proportions of the room will look more harmonious. The fireplace surround (stone?) appears original and needs to be kept as is.
4. Along with everyone else, I think the kitchen is a disaster and needs to be completely gutted and redone in a period-appropriate (simple) style. Without the radiator, there will be a lot more room for cabinets/added counter space. Too many ideas here and not enough room to go into them –
5. The bathroom was remodeled in the early 60s, I’m guessing. I’ve seen the same colors (and sink style) in upscale homes in my area that were built then. It’s interesting in a slice-of-history kind of way, though I’m on board with others that taking this bathroom (and others not shown) back to their original era is the best way to go.
On painting the interior trim, I’m generally partial to white (for windows and trim, door frames, and base molding) and would do that here though the original paneling in the dining room seems too lovely to mess with. And do all of the other obvious things, i.e. remove vertical blinds from sunporch, get some color on all of the walls, replace dining room light fixture with period-appropriate or vintage one, etc.
The bathroom is spectacular. To resell the house, you’d have to gut it, but for me? A little tweak, at most some complementary new sinks. The kitchen has some serious functional issues, so I’d gut it.
The diagonal windows are probably original. Tweak.
Remove radiators? The most comfortable and energy-efficient heating system available? No way.
The three windows look awful — obviously the front of the house was not designed by an architect! If light is needed, perhaps replace with two more that match the one already there and put them all at the same level. May not be the best idea, but they have to go. Second: the kitchen must be completely gutted. Third: bathrooms need complete make-over. Fourth: brown wood (?) wall above the fireplace needs to go — even if it’s original. Paint it the color of the walls, or at least white wash it so that it fades out of sight! Fifth: central heat/air, although the heating system is probably quite efficient, taking out radiators would create more of a flowing space. Don’t know in what location the house is but these days central heat and air is a must and expected when reselling.
The house has such great bones!
1. Choose a base color and complimentary color for the outside of the house.
2. I have no idea how but find a way to harmonize the three cascading windows with the rest of the house front.
3. Get rid of that ugly piece of cheap paneling around the fireplace. Replace it with a carved wood surround with a nice mantle.
4. I love the paneling in the dining room(?). Paint the room in a color that would showcase the paneling. I like the light.
5. I like the colored bathroom fixtures! I’d keep them and replace the countertop. I like the tub and the shower. I’d do something else with the dividing wall around the toilet.
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oh I LOVE this house!! I’d only redo the kitchen. and bathroom..love that side porch. Where is this house located..I think I’ll put my bid in..
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Love this house! Need to make several changes to update..
1 new roof
2 contrasting trim color..maybe 2 extra colors..around windows..maybe window mantles?
3 paint the paneling..use to love! the old wood look..but need to lighten er up
4 stoneware or? around and above fireplace—maybe built-ins to sides
5 updated kitchen cupboards, appliances,floor
6 change out the hot water heating..rads take up needed space
7 all new bath..for its age, have to admit old is still in clean lokking shape but..yuck..
I would paint the outside and redo the landscaping– it’s in need of some outside color–maybe even a couple of window boxes. Definately re-do the kitchen and the bath. Love te sun porch, has lots of potential!