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10.04.18

Before: A House Tour

It’s been a little over three months since we bought our Hudson Valley farmhouse and to say that reno-ing a house is the hardest work I’ve ever done is a complete understatement. When we bought the house my expectation was that we’d get tons done during the summer but by the time we got acclimated, cleaned the floors, washed some windows (we still have all the upstairs windows) and bought a bed, we were already a month in.

I will give ourselves some credit – we have completed a few small projects. We’ve painted most of the downstairs (dining, living, bathroom, stairs and entryway) Swiss Coffee by Valspar and laid a cement shower base after our plumber removed the shower insert and installed new plumbing.

We also cleared out the backyard – we tore down a chicken coup, asked our neighbor to cut down a tree and re-built an antique bench (see last photo)!

AND next week our floors are getting refinished to make the house feel bright and clean. Before any of the big work starts (tiling bathrooms, painting the kitchen cabinets, building an island, installing new windows, painting the upstairs bedroom floors), I thought I’d put together a brief “before” house tour.

These pictures are a combination of photos we’ve taken over the last six months (including photos we took before we closed on the house), so you’ll see discrepancies in a few of the photos (painted vs. non painted wall, base board heaters intact vs. not intact). If anyone reading has brilliant reno or design ideas – please comment away!

FIRST FLOOR

Front staircase (and dining room)

Front staircase (and living room)

Living room (looking into the middle coat room)

Living room (looking toward the front of the house)

Dining room (looking toward the front of the house)

Dining room (facing the front staircase/front door)

First floor bathroom (before we gutted it)

Also, you can notice my horrible patch drywall ceiling job in this photo. I'm considering shiplap on the ceiling but I'm going to let it marinate more.

Middle “coat room” (you can see the kitchen through the doorway on the right)

The kitchen, when we first looked at the house (please excuse my booty)

Back of the kitchen (door on the right is the back staircase leading up to the master bedroom, door on the left is the kitchen pantry)

My sweet HUGE pantry

SECOND FLOOR

Staircase leading to master bedroom

Master bedroom and back staircase (to be clear, those are the curtains the house came with that I took down immediately)

Large guest bedroom (ditto on the curtains here)

Small guest bedroom

Second floor bathroom

Backyard and bench

 

Filed Under: Home Tagged With: Before photos, Farmhouse DIY, Home, Hudson Valley

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  1. Tashcannon says

    10.04.18 at 6:35 pm

    When are you hosting guests for a painting party? <3

    • bellandbasket says

      10.04.18 at 7:50 pm

      If you fly out tomorrow this weekend @tashcannon!

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