The pictures show a combination of ways we have improved the house over time (we put a lot of time and money into it) and having a better photographer/better staging than the previous owners.
I'll do a separate post for the garden, because I might want to put together changes over time, rather than 11 years ago to today.
The front mostly shows changes to the yard
Ryan built us a porch swing
You can really appreciate the refinished floors in the entryway
The kitchen we made genuine improvements to. It really is a nice kitchen
The dining room is a place where we're mostly benefitting from a better photographer. Our dining room table isn't better than theirs (actually, theirs was probably much higher quality, ours is Ikea), but ours looks quite a bit better.
Same with the living room. It just looked so dark in their photos
In our room we got rid of the awful, thatch-like wallpaper and got new carpet. Just those things improved things a lot
Painting the walls white in the office is a recent improvement, suggested by our realtor. So much better than that faux wood paneling.
The back deck looks about the same (recently repainted). Our photographer got a better angle, and the sun was shining that day
The kids rooms are more colorful and less cluttered. And we removed the old carpet and refinished the floors in both rooms.
Didn't really change this bathroom at all, so once again we see the difference in photographer quality. Everything just looks so much brighter in our photos
No real changes to the attic. Just different furniture with maybe some better staging.
Picture of the basement maybe aren't even fair. It was an unfinished basement, now it's a finished basement. But it does look nice now
