Fresh Before and After Photo Gallery: Real Home Transformations

Say that three times fast.

We’ve added new after photos from several angles to our house tour page, and included some never-before-seen before pictures. Because readers often ask to see the other side of our living room and den, we waited for a sunny day to shoot photos from angles we hadn’t shared. And since we love a good before-and-after, we’re showing what each room looked like previously as well.

Take our living room, for example. Here it is the night we moved in:

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And here is almost the same angle now. I removed that hideous divider while John was at work and peeled back a weird linoleum square to reveal hardwood floors underneath.

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We can’t forget the dark, dated den. Here it is from another angle during our first walk-through (that’s our realtor in the doorway):

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And here it is now: we widened the doorway to the sunroom and kitchen, replaced the faux-parquet linoleum with hardwood floors, removed a dated wall sconce, and added several coats of paint.

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Feel free to explore the updated and expanded house tour whenever you like. We’ve also refreshed our room-by-room source list so if you have any “where did you get that?” questions, there’s likely an answer there. Come on in and make yourself at home!