Some Before and After photos

 So I'm not normally one to toot my own horn, but I am really proud of the transformation of this house. This post will show you some of the great before and after pictures.  

I want to open the blog up to a Question and Answer post for next week. I will post answers in pictures, or I will make videos answering the questions. So start asking away in the comments section, and I will do my best to answer them.

Some Before and Afters...

The Living Room is one of my favorite transformations. When we got the house, there was literally zero usable electricity. So we got the panels installed in the basement and fed an extension cord up through a hole in the living room floor. That became our workroom.  So we basically took turns using the one electrical source for our power tools. We didn't waste it on lighting, we just worked when the sun was up, and went home when it went down. The floor had the gorgeous stripes in it, but was so dirty, you couldn't see them.

 

Quite the transition!!! 

When we bought the house, it was a duplex. Sometime in the 20s, they had converted the house from a single family into a duplex, we figured to make more money by renting parts of it out. They removed the staircase in the foyer and made that a bedroom. We had to open the ceiling back up and recreate the staircase.  The foyer also had a drop ceiling, and parts of the ceiling were missing because pipes had burst throughout the house. It was a huge mess..

and now...

The last set of pictures for this post are of the attic. It was just one giant open space, no walls or anything. We figured out that the female servants would live up there.  We wanted 4 guest suites, so we made the front 1/3 of the attic a suite, and the back 2/3 are our personal space.

If you look closely at the before picture, you can see the electric panel. The wires came in through the window from the street. It had a 30amp/120 system to run the entire house. We joke that someone had to turn off their hair dryer so someone else could run a microwave. It had the original knob and tube wiring throughout the house, and sometimes the insulation was peeled back and lamp cord was wrapped around the wires to add electricity somewhere. Surprised the house didn't catch fire!! 

So.. next week will be Q&A time.. get me those questions to answer!!