Before Pics .

The living room, complete with the fantastic beamed ceiling and built in bookcases an columns separating the entry. Also note the glamorous 60's ish crystal light fixture and electric blue carpet






Here is a view into the dinning room with a pocket door currently partially stuck into the wall, but with a 1920's curtain rod attached to the trim which indicates someone had portiers draped to separate the rooms. How swanky is that? Also note the elegant plywood and 2X4 screen on the windows, and another view of the carpet and contrasting linoleum in the dinning room.



The soon to be elegant dinning room, looking through the pocket door from the living room. As you can see, the room has a beautiful plate rail, picture molding and matching beam ceiling. It also has a very peculiar partition separating the room in half, built of scraps of wood paneling, 2x4 framing and large amounts of alcohol or controlled substance, as nothing is remotely level or even. It also bisects the original built in buffet which as been covered over. The floor has also been "repaired" in the most liberal sense of the word, as it is made up of different thickness plywood covered in linoleum replacing the original oak flooring. At least the 1X6 sub floor is still there and sound.

Here is the other side of the room, original detail intact with extraneous gas lines for a missing gas heater, and phone cord to nowhere.










The front bedroom, Intact with all the original moldings, floors and doors (not necessarily attached to door frame however). The highlight of this room is the closet door that has a full length bevel glass mirror on the inside of the door ( visible in the hallway picture below)









The back bedroom, with lots of doors. The door to the far right is new, and this wall be reconfigured to a larger double door to access the narrow closet. Already Hunting for a pair of 5 panel doors to match the rest of the house. The rest of the room is the same as the front, with all the original trim and flooring, although there is some termite damage to the maple floor in one corner, luckily, they didn't care for the pine sub floor which is solid.


Looking down the hall from the back bedroom to the front, the dinning room door on the left and the bath on the right. Note the beveled glass closet door mentioned above in the front bedroom an the intact trim and the original wall sconce next to the bathroom door on the right.








The kitchen. Got ya huh? Its actually not too bad, very late 1980's minus the almond appliances, actually minus all appliances, which considering how filthy the rest of the house is, a real blessing. A thorough cleaning, new counter tops and new floor, it will suffice until I can add on to the house and have my dream kitchen..








The bath, redone about the same time as the kitchen with about as much charm. a one piece fiberglass tub enclosure and a mildewed press board vanity complete the picture. There are big long terms plans for this room, subway tile walls, hexagonal tile floor, clawfoot tub and marble vanity. I managed to get my hands on the marble vanity on sale at Home Depot Expo, but the other elements will have to be put on hold for now. As a comparison, check out the picture of the bathroom in our Long Beach house below.




This room was completely redone,we moved the tub across the room and changed the locations of the doors. I did all the tilework, built the medicine cabinet and replicated all the woodwork to match the originals in the rest of the house. The tub enclosure design was copied from a 1928 penthouse apartment of a friend of ours, but we substituted glass block for the original tile mural. The new bath will be more Edwardian, which is more appropriate for the 1910 vintage of the new house. I can't do it the same way, now can I?