Like the house itself, our house tour is a work in progress. You can click each space to see more images. We’ll be adding updated images as we move along and we’ll set up a different page for official after photos of finished room.
To see what we’re currently working on, check our latest post.
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Coming soon:
- Kitchen
- Upstairs bathroom
- Downstairs bathroom
- The basement
- The garage
You have a beautiful eye for mixing old with new, really has a modern edge while being sympathetic to the old house. It’s something I hope to achieve with our build.
Thank you! We’re hoping that bringing in modern elements that we love while still keeping the unique vintage features will help us create a good look for the house. Good luck with your bungalow!
Leena, it looks amazing!!! keep up the great work and i cant wait to see what it looks like when you guys are all done!
Thanks, Stella! We’re really close to finishing off 2 rooms. We’ll share those soon!
Wow. You have a great house to work on and it has the potential to be amazing. From what I have seen in your blog so far, it will be amazing. Good reads.
What kind of issues are you having with plumbing and electrical?
Not to many issues in my opinion. Just age and under sized supply lines really.
Many years ago when we were young and ambitious my wife and I bought a turn of the century Victorian that had only a few upgrades. I learned my plumbing and electrical skills renovating that house. Enjoy the struggle! I’d do it again if I could
Thank you! We love hearing from other couples who renovated their houses and lived to tell the tale. We’re trying to enjoy every moment of it — even the ones that piss us off and leave us wondering what we were thinking
Great house. Looks like a lot of work, but lots of fun, too. Good luck!
Thank you! It never feels like work because it’s a labor of love. At least that’s what we tell ourselves to keep going
Great! I was looking at your post of soft pine floors. I liked what you did with the black shiny paint. We also have soft pine floors and we polyurethaned them with water based gloss. It worked out really well. No more splinters and you still get the color of the floor. In some areas we painted them white. Also quite nice. A good tip for filling in the cracks between floor boards: use a screw driver to jam in sisal twine dipped in wood glue. Works very well and very cheap. Best of luck!
We tried filling the cracks with wood putty but they popped out over the winter when the wood stove dried out the floors. We were considering keeping the natural color of the floors on the first floor — good to know that the color stays true with water based gloss. Great tips, thank you for sharing!
I am so impressed you guys actually fond the time to do this. In my busy life I would have never fond time ( I also would have gave up after a while!)
We’re going to keep chipping away at it till it’s finished. I think for us, we never thought of this as a starter house, so that makes it a little easier to keep going and stick with it. Thanks for reading!
I love your vision! This will look great when you are done… I admire your hardworking attitudes. Did you know all that brick was under there when you started? It looks very good… you guys are a good team!
We had a gut feeling there was brick underneath and we confirmed it by removing some of the trim and peeking underneath. If it were up to us, the entire house would be exposed brick. Too bad there’s that whole insulation issue to deal with
I love how you have an old house that you are putting a modern spin on it.You are making me want to begin renovations on the parts of my home I am not so crazy about. Knowing myself I will probably never finish them but maybe if you keep posting I will become inspired!
Really great job, super impressed