Restoring the Ancient Ruins

Thought it might be fun to share some before and after pictures of Mirabelle. (Mirabelle is the name my mom gave the house because she said "she's so pretty to look at." Those are kind words given her current condition, but I must agree that once we give her a little - make that a lot - of TLC, she's going to be beautiful.)

Mirabelle when we first arrived.


Here's the entry and living room before we did any work. If you look closely you can see candle smoke stains on the walls above the mantle, and you can also see where the knots in the wood on the trim show through on the entry into the dining room.



Here's the same space after we primed the walls and painted the ceiling, walls, and trim.





Here are before and afters of one of the guest bedrooms as well. We only had to paint the walls in this room.



I have to give a big shout out to my mom for all of her help on the house for the last week. If it hadn't been for her, you would probably only be seeing the "before" pictures today! THANK YOU, MOM! You're the best!

In addition to the work we did in this space, we've had a hot water heater replaced and had to call a heating man to come out and fix the boiler because our cable guy cut the wire on the boiler when he set up our phone line. We're also having some pipes replaced in the house today because the corrosion has caused problems with the water pressure in one of the bathrooms.