Tag: before and after

Chronicling my adventures restoring and updating a quirky old Philadelphia rowhouse

Nana’s Condo – The Kitchen

I’m sorry my last post ended so suspensefully. Here’s the best material I’ve got from the condo, so I hope this makes up for it. To start, my parents (sometimes with my help) made some decisions about the kitchen to just get it done: The cabinets, countertops, and appliances all came from Home Depot. There…
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4th Anniversary Tour – Back Bedroom

The back bedroom, oh my. At the start it was tiny, the floor had a terrible slant (normally I’m okay with crooked floors but this was too much), and the closet was once again 12 inches deep. Let’s not forget the horror story of the wall behind the radiator. Whoever did this can’t have been…
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4 Year Anniversary Tour – Front Bedroom

The front bedroom is the least changed room in the house. To start, it had a crazy 1-foot-deep closet and a door connecting it to the middle bedroom, which is now the bathroom. So there was enough of the middle bedroom left over to get me a good closet, but I needed a bigger door opening than…
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