#renovated victorian home

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I am always looking for homes for normal people who can't afford millions, and it's crazy to see what's available and where. This is a questionable value - an 1883 Victorian in Alma, MI. It has 6bds, 4ba, asking $375K. It's a little weird, though.

Firstly, I don't know what they did to the beautiful original Victorian porch, b/c this brick wall, cement, and modern beams ain't it.

I don't know how they got such light wood. It looks original, but did they have it bleached and redone with oak stain? The new flooring has a weird inlaid pattern. I hate this entrance hall.

Definitely the original stairs.

There's a nice fireplace. This was once an elegant entrance hall.

So, they have a dining room.

This room is loaded with stuff, including an old fridge.

Okay, they've got a sitting room here.

And, the 2nd sitting room is also off the main hall, but they look modernized with gray paint. I don't see the fireplaces, either.

What did they do to this kitchen? I can't even talk about it. Glass block backsplash in a Victorian. Tile floors.

This must be the old service stairs.

The hall is so narrow and it's modernized. I wonder if the dark molding is original. The doors are original.

Uh, these 2 rooms look like good sizes, there's certainly a lot of stuff in them, and the pink one is in the turret.

This room is being used as the primary bedroom.

The bath was completely renovated. I hate it.

Bedrooms 4 & 5.

Oh, what did they do to the turret in here, w/that ceiling. They've got the home on all the flat screens b/c I guess they think it's beautiful.

The entrance to the attic- there's a counter for a mini fridge and you can also have toast.

The finished attic. I guess this can't be counted as a bedroom.

Or maybe it's this one that can't be counted. But, how cool is this? It's at the top of the turret.

There's a shower room up here.

In the basement, they have a bar. Geez, there's the house again on the TVs.

More screens w/the house.

I hope that guests don't have to pass this on the way to the bar.

The house is on a .25 acre lot. Truthfully, I think they ruined it. It's not much of a Victorian, anymore. Zillow says it's worth $360K, but I don't know if I would want it.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/611-Pine-Ave-Alma-MI-48801/115072964_zpid/

[xiaq]

This house is going to be unrecognizable when I’m through with it.

[thesixthduke]

[the-home]

[toytulini]

victorian style haunted house that has dysphoria about not being an open concept minimalist hellhole, before we even have those, so it doesnt know why it just feels sooo miserable and has to lash out at everyone inside it, so its wretched and haunted the whole time, until its finally bought by a house flipper in the 2020s who knows JUST how to fix it

[roachi-annie]

I made social media accounts for sharing my journey fixing up an old Victorian house I bought for $100

If anyone would like to help fund this restoration project or if you could share this and get it out there I’d appreciate it.

This house is about 170 years old give or take a decade, truthfully it’s estimated to have been built between the 1830’s-1850’s. I want to see her make it to see 200 and many more years to come.

Historical homes and architecture; the restoration and preservation of historical homes are some of my passions. Historic homes being a particular special interest. This is my lifelong dream.

All donations will go towards the restoration and preservation of this beautiful historic Victorian home. The roof and foundation need repaired and the electrical needs to be updated (it’s still on knob and tube!). Anything extra will go toward redoing the bathrooms and kitchen which were already gutted before I purchased this house, as well as rebuilding the collapsed back porch. The back porch hasn’t collapsed because of any structural or foundational issues (all foundation issues are in the front corner of the house exclusively), it’s just collapsed due to wood rot.

Here are the links for anyone interested in following this journey.

[goldrushrunning]

im starting to think white diy tiktokers shouldn't be allowed to move to japan and do any sort of diy home renovations on old japanese houses without taking multiple courses on historical japanese construction methods and civil architecture

istg 'why arent the floorboards connected you can just pick them up' bolting things together is an earthquake hazard 'why is there an empty space under the floor wheres the insulation' that IS the insulation the humidity would just get fiber insulation moldy 'the floor beams arent bolted down' bc its an earthquake hazard 'we're going to make it more modern looking' do you have any idea what people are willing to shill out for historical style houses??? bc congrats you lowered the price significantly

all you did was make a pretty looking health hazard

[fayerenn]

every time i try to make me and eren on the sims i spend hours and hours in cas trying to make us (him) and then am unable to play because he just Doesn’t Look Right and it drives me nuts

[zaingill]

Top Interior Design Trends for Gold Coast Homes in 2024

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[danithelivingdeadgirl]

I was just informed by my grandmother that her grandmother owned a VICTORIAN home in San Francisco that looked over the bay BUT was fucking DEMOLISHED????? bc the people that inherent the house didn't want it anymore ???? LIKE UR TELLING ME THAT SOMEONE IN MY FAMILY HAD A VICTORIAN HOUSE AND DEMOLISHED IT???? THE FUCK???? (I also have pictures of the house)

these is all I have pictures ( taken in the early 1960s )

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is interesting. A tiny, adorable, 1893 Victorian cottage, wedged between buildings in San Francisco, CA was remodeled to look much larger inside. It has 3bds, 3ba, they are not giving the square footage of the house, nor the dimensions of any of the rooms (hmmm...), but the price is $2.385m. It's very skillfully done, but not $2m skillful. Take a look at this little house completely squeezed in between two buildings.

The mini Victorian has a narrow center hall with a sitting room off to the side, just like a large Victorian. It even has pocket doors.

The fireplace is custom made, so I don't think that these are original tiles.

The pocket doors open to a bedroom.

Across the hall from the sitting room there's a cute home office.

Then 3 stairs go down to a very nice dining room. It's so cozy, but not meant for a large dinner party. They installed modern wainscoting, which is what you find in a Victorian dining room.

Tiles similar to the living room fireplace grace the surround.

The kitchen is surprisingly roomy and has lots of storage.

The 2nd bedroom is a good size.

The baths are small 3pc. style.

The primary bedroom looks like a new addition and features a beautiful window, a vaulted wood ceiling, and a fireplace.

It also has a nice walk-in closet.

And, an ensuite shower room.

Here's a nice room. It looks like an art studio.

There's a sizeable home gym in the basement.

Plus a utility room.

There's a pretty big garage, too.

I like the porch in front of the house.

There's a surprisingly nice yard and garden in the back. A couple of decks and a patio on several levels provide plenty space to relax.

3,250 sq ft lot

https://www.zillow.com/homes/340-Eureka-St-San-Francisco,-CA-94114_rb/15130314_zpid/?

[aminta]

if the house did get sold at least the city wouldnt let any new owners totally gut and revamp it into some modern monstrosity bc it's labeled as a historic home, and my city is protective as HELL over the historic homes here. once my grandparents looked into renting out the top floor (servants quarters that literally could be its own apartment) and the city was like well if u do that u will have to put in a fire escape. and if u try and tack on a fire escape to the house without permission (or in a way that isnt nice) we will actually kill you. here's 7 trillion paperwork

[chokranbrass]

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[luciusannaneusseneca]

Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group. San Francisco, California USA Victorian-era home...

[deerynoise]

Basement London Mid-sized eclectic look-out concrete floor and gray floor basement photo with pink walls, no fireplace and a plaster fireplace

[benonirosehouse]

Kitchen Closet Part Two: Big Plans for a Little Space

(If you haven't read Part One, start here) Remember how terrifying the under-the-stairs-closet aka Kitchen Cave was looking in our last installment? It's looking much less horrifying. But it's not ready yet, because just when I am about to kinda half-ass something, J abandons her sensible nature and decides we need a beautiful closet, not just a functional one.

It's also not ready yet because we both work full time and have lives. Our mistake!

But in between working and living and beginning to totally restore the upstairs bathroom, we have had time to get somewhere with the closet. The exposed stairs had been half painted white and were stained, grimy, and very gross. We've primed them with Kilz and caulked them, and also primed the plywood floor as well. (You may be wondering why the floor is plywood. I looked in the cellar to see if the original floor was there, and it's not. It looks like there was a staircase down to the cellar at one point that was removed. That also seems to have something to do with the "temporary" support columns down there. We'll add it to the "ask a structural engineer" list.) Enjoy a little Before & After of our progress!

The door frame was (is) in horrible shape, and had been painted white over cream around the fridge, so some of it was... still cream. Thankfully, I have some white trim paint hanging around just because. I never thought I'd be so excited to hit something in my own home with the landlord special, but that's what the door frame got! The impact that white paint has had cannot possibly be overstated. Someday we'll actually fix the door frame, but that day is not today.

There was a shelf above the fridge when it was in the closet, and that shelf is made of the same plywood the floor is. There's a bit of space at the back of the closet that needs covering to even it all out for some laminate, and thankfully we have a free plywood scrap that fits the bill! Yeah, I said laminate. It's awful, I know. But it's a closet! And it's plywood! And we have so many visible parts of the house to spend money on beautifying. It just didn't seem worth even another dollar per square foot to use bamboo. I hopped on FB marketplace and found someone's insanely cheap (and low quality, but whatever) leftover stick-on vinyl planks in a decent color, and we're going to slap that straight on the plywood. J grimaced about it but agreed. There's a lot of shit to fix in this house, we may as well save where we can. Of course the plaster is cracked and in some places crumbling. I ordered a "homeowners" Plaster Magic kit and that's the next step in this journey. These walls were only ever hit with one light lime wash, so no paint stripping required to fix and then lime paint the walls. I thought we were going to paint the walls some version of white, put a cheap light in there, and call it a closet. However, after what felt like an hour of deliberation in the lighting section at Home Depot, we decided to go online instead and buy an attractive light fixture instead of a more utilitarian option. J, it turns out, wants a pretty closet, given that we'll be looking inside it every day. I was surprised, but happy to oblige. While we were shopping on the internet, we ordered rod brackets so we can hang our coats, and a tension rod. Someday we'll have closet door to match the other (seven!) doors in the space, but in the meantime, a curtain's going to have to serve.

Since we decided to make the space a bit nicer, we picked a cute blush color for the walls, Native from Color Atelier.

Looking forward to learning about plaster repair! Will post about it next time :)