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| Here is another old turn of the century home that we completely remodeled in vintage style. The highlight of this home is the new Victorian master bath. Click on pictures to enlarge them |
| Another fixer-upper that we acquired where the yard was like a jungle. We cut many trees and weeds, scraped it in our usual fashion, seeded, built a new fence and added a 2-car carport for off-street parking. |
| The house had lots of its original elements and charm, such as the woodwork and leaded glass cabinets. We added some picture rail, textured wallpapers, and vintage light fixtures. |
| Here's the main floor half bath that was last remodeled in about 1969. We used some salvaged vintage fixtures and some antique oak and made this bath look original. |
| Here's the kitchen, also outdated and far from its original character. We gutted it, built new cabinets out of antique wood and glass doors, found an antique gas stove that was restored, applied textured wallpaper to the ceiling and sprayed it with metallic copper paint to simulate the original tin ceiling, and tiled the floor and counters with reproduction tile. |
| New we're getting to the good stuff. This is the 2nd floor bath, the only full bath in the house. We thought it could look better. We built a vanity out of antique oak and a marble top, and lots of period style wainscoting and tile. |
| Here is the smallest 2nd floor bedroom. We removed the closet and made it into the shower adjoining a bathtub deck, divided by a beautiful antique leaded glass panel. Of course it needed a Victorian style whirlpool tub and telephone handshower faucet. That's a sun porch over the back porch on the right. |
| While stripping this room, we discovered a border of original wallpaper, intact and undamaged from the removal of the other layers. So we kept it, trimmed it out, and when we sprayed polyurethane on it to protect it from moisture, the colors instantly reappeared. Very cool! |
| Here is that sun porch that is now a nursery or cozy sitting room |
| I like to install textured wallpaper on the ceilings in many of our renovations, then paint them with metallic brass or copper, that most people believe is the original tin ceiling. |
| We found 4 matching light fixtures in an antique store, painted pink. We stripped them, polished them, rewired them and now all the rooms have matching vintage fixtures. We also painted or refinished the woodwork and the floors and added ceiling medallions for the period flavor. |
| Not to brag, (well maybe a little) but when we finished this house and were conducting the open house, one couple entered this bathroom expecting to see another bedroom, and nearly fainted. She exclaimed "this bathroom is so beautiful I just can't look at it." That actually happened! |
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| Click on the links below to see pictures of our work |