A designer describes the process of rescuing a jumbled farmhouse.
We share different types of insulation so you can select what works best for your home’s interior walls.
How do you renovate a house with no money? Try these ideas on for size, from acquiring new skills to getting your renovation to pay you back.
Many old homes in Melbourne that get renovated with a modern twist are sure to have a show stopping aesthetic. These include period homes that are given quirky or modern additions and extensions. The Split House by FIGR Architecture definitely falls under this category with it’s modern extension. As you arrive at the address, you’ll be…
This is one of our favorite cinematic home renovations ever.
Time for another renovation progress post! The builders have been busy clearing out the rubbish from last week and removing more walls and ceilings.
One of my favorite past times is to drive by old home places. I don't know what it is that makes them call out to me. Do you ever just go for Sunday drives and look for old home places. Sometimes all that is left are the remains of a chimney or old house flowers. You know what old house flowers are, right? They are flowers that were planted at one time by the home owner and remain behind to bloom even when the house may be torn down. The old chimneys are just sitting there, no house, just the old bricks waiting for you stop so that they can whisper the house secrets to you. Well, wouldn't that be something if they could tell you what happened, why they remained and the house and family didn't. A while back while on Dawn's blog, she introduced this site to us and this is where I found these images. While this house may seem a little creepy to some, it just really spoke to me. You can tell it was a huge house. I can imagine the family that lived here probably had lots of children and the husband had to have been someone important in the town, a doctor, lawyer, who knows. I could see the mother sitting on the front porch, baby in tow, while she watched the little ones play in the massive yard. See the tree, can you picture children playing hide and seek while the one pretented to count and cover their eyes, all the while watching where the children were hiding. I know I have a vivid imagination. Now this house, while it may be boarded up, you can tell was once grand in it's day. Just look at the peely paint color still on the house. I love the porch on it but I loved the little glass room at the top of it the most. I would have spent many hours here if it would have been mine. You would have found me reading, looking out to the city below, and drinking tea. This house is dark and mysterious, but it still is appealing to me. Why would families leave them behind? Do you ever notice that once families leave it seem that even the house becomes sad and goes into disrepair. I can imagine this house would have been in a grand city on a main street. It would have been owned by a prominent family, someone important, just look at the detail. Again, another wonderful porch to sit on. What a cute cottage? Can you image it full of rose bushes peeking through the fence by a great gardener. Maybe it was the lady in the picture with her dog. It seemed it would have been a happy house. This last picture, I can see still in the middle of a town with all new construction all around. Maybe the family won't sell and the new stores are building all around it. I can only imagine the yard would have been just beautiful. I would loved to have been sitting on this porch, watching the town grow while I continued to enjoy the house. This weekend, I got out and enjoyed our city park. There's a new log cabin that was moved to the park around November and they are slowly constructing the original cabin back. The Sam Houston's Memorial Park, where Sam Houston's old houses have been moved for us to enjoy, is the location of where the new cabin was moved. The cabin dates back to the 1840's and Sam Houston would go hunting near the cabin's original location. What I liked most about the cabin were the front and back porches. I'll be showing this cabin in a future post. I'm also linking up with Jill for her new series that she's starting, The Porch Club. I hope you'll also stop over and see who all is participating for her first post.
Used to designing for a fast sale, a real estate pro ignores the rules and remakes a 1930 house to fit his family—and reflect his unique personal style
Made up of mismatched vintage windows, this she shed is a sunny retreat.
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An Art Nouveau townhouse slated for apartment use gets restored to its former beauty.
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Explore Neil Fellowes' 7856 photos on Flickr!
Leaks, wild life, inspections. These are the things I wished I was told to look out for before buying an old house.
TOH readers took on another batch of rundown abodes and remade them into cheery and beautiful houses
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When it comes to property value, a number of factors are taken into consideration. Alongside location, size and type of property, energy efficiency is also an important factor when looking to increase your property’s value. This is due to the fact that an energy efficient home usually has a more comfortable living space, lower energy bills, and well insulated homes have better protection on the structure of the building.
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Hannah and Berran Hooper paid £370,000 for the five-bedroomed home in Wantage, Oxfordshire and decided to renovate straight away despite having a newb...
Eine Pariser Familie tauscht ihr Stadtleben gegen den Neuanfang auf dem Land. Entdecken Sie das Haus von Isabelle und Hubert Bettan auf AD!
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I have to admit, this nearly perfect summer day almost didn’t happen. We’re getting ready to go on our big trip, my to-do list is a couple pages long, and I was thinking of other things we could do that wouldn’t take as much time and picking up some berries at the Farmer’s Market, but look what we would have missed: the blueberries were huge and scrumptious this year! These were our whoppers! I want to fix this house up. Look at the potential! Can you imagine?? Beautiful country homes and churches: We stopped for some peaches and cow tales on our way to our favorite bridge for a picnic. I totally had them hold hands, but this picture just makes my mommy heart ache: love the Southern graffiti :) and the creek felt so good! As we were driving home, my oldest said, “I am SO happy right now.” me too~that the dumb busy fluff stuff didn’t win today.
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Shadow house by Grotto Studio cemented the friendship of Nener and Tanya while making a poetic story in the process.
The simple lines and rectilinear shapes of her 18th-century rectory left landscape and interior designer Lesley Cooke rapt as she embarked on a two-year campaign of understated modernisation
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Churches can be converted into beautiful spaces. Small churches or big churches they can be converted into modern homes, hotels, restaurants of even a skate park.
My fiance and I recently bought a beautiful old Victorian style house in Toronto and today I am sharing a pre reno house tour so you can see the canvas I am working with. I am thrilled to start this new chapter and begin renovations on my dream kitchen. I am planning to share my future home renovati
Don’t be that stupid guy that gets killed first. Think twice before you go looking for a thrill this Halloween…. (queue the spooky music). 1. Wooden Houses with pointy Witch hats. This house is obviously cursed and will have you sprouting Latin (or some other dead language) in no time. Detroit, via here …
The before and afters of my Grandma's house remodel, renovation, do it yourself of a 100 year farmhouse after fully gutting it and DIY everything!
