Our First Reno – Townhouse Renovation

I thought I would take a moment and share a past project.  This one was HUGE.  We bought our townhouse in 2010 and moved in January 1st 2011 and the renovations began the NEXT morning!

It’s only a GLIMPSE of what we did. I took a ton of pictures so I tried finding the best before and after.

I’m a sucker for home transformation and when it was finally our turn I was so excited!!

Here’s our Townhouse Renovation from 2011 – 2014

Front Entrance

Before

Inspectors Photo during the purchasing process. We renovated so quickly I didn’t get much before pictures.

After

New Door – Floor Tile – Trim – Coat Hook – Electrical – Drywall – All the important stuff behind the walls and we can’t forget PAINT!

Front Hallway

Yikes – This is hard to look at.  It’s USED to be a huge mudroom, with a storage closet with Hot water tank and electrical and access to the garage PLUS the front door.  Oh, that window at the end in over the kitchen sink.  The townhouse USED to have a carport.  This used to be exterior.

After

New hallway and just a pass through window without cabinets blocking the view to the backyard.

Here’s a shot of the old front door.

We took it out – obviously.  This is the original front entrance where I’m standing taking the picture. The man with the hammer.  My handsome hubby.

We just had it as a more open area with old coat closet becoming a pantry.  Something I don’t have now and miss! Plus I had a storage cabinet there.  Townhouse – need all the storage you can get.

Kitchen

Before

Truth – The best photo I have because it was so boxed in with walls and cabinets that were ready to fall. Cabinets had rat droppings on them and the light above the sink wasn’t secure and ready to fall into the kitchen sink at any moment.

After

Did you catch that?  We FOUND these stairs on the other side and it completely changed our design plan and ended up with a bigger kitchen.

Cabinet makers daughter here.  Solid Maple Cabinets with crown molding.  Yes – Solid cabinets.  Do I ever miss those cabinets.  Dreaming of a new kitchen again.  It’s SO nice.

Living Room

Before

Again – Inspection photo.  This hurts my eyes, I can SMELL this place.  It stank so bad. Oh….did you see the GIANT mirror. Then there was this all over the walls.

Confused?  Vaulted ceilings.  We kept the top part and took down the rest.  What a job.

This place had 1970’s written all over it.  Orange Curtains!! We camped in our living room with camping kitchen.

Last living room shot.  That fireplace!

After

Bathrooms

Downstairs 1/2 bath Before

Again, I shudder when I see this.

After

Don’t ask me why the lid is open. I loved the wainscoting we did in this bathroom.  The shelf was from the upstairs bathroom and fit better on the main floor.

Upstairs Bathroom Before

After

Just like my kitchen, it was hard to say goodbye to this bathroom when we sold this place.

I just realized the trim isn’t done in these photos.  It was before we sold it.

I took lots of pictures – never knowing I was going to blog in the future. We learned a TON during this and are already getting our current home into the planning process for some renovations.  Yes – We did have our first son in this place. Painting and Pregnant…

Hope this post was fun and inspiring too look at.  Some of the design is still current and some of it isn’t anymore.  It’s a townhouse complex so the exterior is all done by strata.  So there’s now photos of that.

What Renovations have you done?