Our new house has been such a blessing to our family and we are very grateful! We do enjoy inviting others over, and the open, larger main living space in this house has been great! We love the openness and all the windows. We moved in June 2023, a few houses down from our old house, so we are loving still being in the same neighborhood. It was built in 1962, but was flipped in 2021, two years before we bought it.
I have limited pictures from before the flip, but here are a few pictures before it was even flipped. This was the front living room area. There was a wall going all the way across before, and the kitchen was through that door on the left.
The back side, behind the fireplace/wall- kitchen and dining area.
Tearing down the wall to open it up.
Another view of the front window in the living room.
Another view of the back part of the home off the kitchen- I think this was used for dining?
The other angle of the back room. You can see a tiny bit of the old kitchen, and they they opened up this side wall a lot.
Here are a few photos from move in day- this is the view from the front door. Both of the owners previous to us had this area be more of a sitting room/living room and had the dining area behind, but we flipped that and are loving that decision. This front area is our dining room.
One of the biggest things we've done in this house is to change out almost every single light fixture. They were pretty modern looking, so we went with something we liked a little more. The lights below were pre change- nothing wrong with them, but just sold them and picked something we loved! We also changed the backsplash in the kitchen right away to something we liked more.
Here is one of the listing photos where you can see the backsplash before. We are enjoying it being brighter!
Back office area. Before the flip, this was a wall and this room was like a three season porch area, and they added it as part of the house in the flip and finished it off. We love having this area! Kley's computer/desk is back here, as well as our piano and most of the toys.
Back area (behind the big fireplace wall you can see in the picture from the front door angle). We made this our living room with our big sectional.
Here are some pictures from recently, what it looks like today. Here is the front dining area.
Love the big windows! Another big house project we did was curtains/blinds, none of the rooms had any..
There is a pantry door behind this kitchen too on the right side, so nice! We didn't have a pantry in our old house.
The mudroom is probably the area we made the most change. The back half was all original and the drawers didn't work well and weren't very fresh, so we redid everything in the mudroom and are loving it! We added the upper cubbies in the front part too and the bench/lower cubbies, where beforehand this was just open space. This makes much more functional, we think, because now everyone can have their own coat hooks, bin for winter gear up top, and shoe bucket on the bottom.
Here is a photo from the listing of the mudroom before.
Office/toy/piano area.
We also added a mantle above the fireplace (there wasn't one before) and we are loving that! It's fun to decorate seasonally, and especially love it for Christmas to hang stockings from! It makes the room feel cozier.
Living room.
This house also has a really nice yard for the girls to play and for hosting too. Our old house had a single garage, and Kley is especially loving a triple in this new house. We are so thankful for this house! It has been a blessings to us in many ways.