Adventures in Realestate

Just to give you a little bit of an idea of what our house was like when we bought it. Th.e house had been forclosed on so naturally its previous occupants stripped out everything of value including appliances and apparently the drawer front of these lovely cabinets
This was our stairway banister which was conviently located in the kitchen. I briefly considered keeping it as an architectural element... VERY briefly.
We replaced the banister (it is now serving as a bike rack) with a half wall and countertop over the stairs along with some extra cabinets which gave us a lot more work space.
We replaced the nasty linoleum, cabinets, countertops, and paint and added a few necessities like a stove, dishwasher, fridge etc.
Unfortunately there wasn't much we could do about the amount of dining space without adding on to the house, but at least it looks nice.

This was our bathroom. It was actually in much better shape than the one in the basement. I still won't even look in that room. Notice the high quality leak repair around the base of the toilet. Apparently the previous owners thought tar would work better than replacing the wax ring inside the base.
This was the result of the tar, a whole bunch of moldy rotted subfloor that Thane, talented man that he is, had to replace.
We replaced all most everything in the bathroom.

Unfortunately we have not yet replaced the tub, but someday I will hopefully convince Thane that Re-Bath would be worth the cost.