I wanted to start giving “tours” of each room to document where we are in the design process, because over the course of the next year (or years, let’s be real!) I hope to take these rooms and elevate the design! So I am starting with our dining room, which fun fact and you will see below, it used to have a sunroom off of it!
Background on the House
As some back story, our house was built in 1922 however the flippers that sold it to us flipped the entire house, including taking everything down to the studs and a lot of that 1922 historical charm with it. One of my goals while we live here is to infuse more historic character back into the house.
What is fun and also disheartening (because I wish it still had some of the original features), is we have access to the pictures of the house before the renovation. However, from what we have pieced together after talking with the people who flipped the house as well as neighbors is that the company that flipped it, bought it from a man who also bought it to prep it to flip. All that to say, not only do we have our closing day photos, we also have the photos from the last listing and the start of demolition. So not the house in its historic glory, but they are fun to see the original footprint, trim, flooring, etc. of the house nonetheless!
Enjoy these pre-flip, house closing and current views of the dining room!
Pre-Flip Dining Room
One thing to know when looking at the original picture of the dining room is that our house originally had a sunroom right off of the dining room. The flippers ended up closing that off and turning that whole side of the house into a garage. Very practical and nice to have an attached garage in such an old home where it is typical to have a detached garage in the back of the house however I would be lying if I didn’t say my heart hurt looking at the original house and seeing/knowing that their was a sunroom!! *sigh* Thinking of creative ways to infuse that character back into the house which is exciting though!
Closing Day
This is on closing day when we got the keys!! The house felt a bit 2015s with gray everything – gray walls, gray leaning wood, and gray backsplash on the kitchen. However, we truly fell in love with the house after stepping foot in it. You know when they say “when you know, you know” that was totally the feeling we got when looking at this house. After looking at more than 50 homes over the course of 2 years, if gray was my only challenge with the house, I would take it!
Current Dining Room
And this brings us to current day! We painted the whole downstairs Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (a neutral leaning white) to give us a clean slate. All of this furniture and art, etc came from our apartment and fit perfectly in this space. I have some fun moulding and trim planned for this but first, we need some drapery and window treatment updates! Excited to show you what I have in mind in the future.
