Wednesday, April 5, 2023

11 Years Later

We're selling the house and moving back to California. I spent way too much time this morning when I should have used the precious time between house showing to get some work done making comparison pictures between the pictures from our house listing and the pictures from when we bought the house in 2012.

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








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