A Stylist's Life's Profile

To the commentors complaing about the fact that we did not use the orginal kitchen cabinets, stove and sink - This house was designed from the beginning to be a rental therefore keeping cost and time down was high on our list. Also having something that was easy to maintain was important. The stove was an expensive repair as were the cabinets (which were flimsy and not in good shape in addition to being covered in lead paint). We had hoped to save the old interior doors but they were also covered in lead paint and did not fit the new proper height doorways. There was no interior trim of any value. This house was unlivable and likely to be torn down. It had flooding issues and no insulation in addition to what you see in the pics. Yes we used Ikea cabinets, but again people it was a rental and we had cost considerations. We felt that by supplementing the cabinets with vintage wood for the shelves and bar that we were making it more interesting. We kept the paint colors mostly off whites because it was a renatl but added the blue wall, yellow lights and exterior doors to liven it up a bit. This is a rental we don't plan on living in it or selling it, and I don't know about all of you but nicer then any rental I ever had. We were able to rent it even before it was finished and the tenants are thrilled.

The house was shot for a Rue Magazine feature so the shoot was focused more on details. Though other then the master bedroom which wasn't shot you can see just about everything in the shot's shown. The outside landscaping isn't done yet as well as the porch so we didn't shoot it.
We opened up the entire first floor into one large space and you can see the plans on my blog under renovation-http://www.astylistslife.com/search/label/renovation. You can alos see more pictures of the space without furniture.
The second floor is essentially the same layout other then some minor adjustments between the bathroom and second bedroom to make the bathroom better. Otherwise we added dormers to make more headroom.
The sinks are both from Ikea and the kitchen faucet is Brizo.
Our original plan was to resuse the old kitchen sink, cabinets and doors, but the sink didn't end up working with the layout. Meanwhile it's sitting in our barn for the future somewhere else. Saving the orginal doors and kitchen cabinets didn't make sense as they were covered in lead paint and rickety.
I did save some of the wallpaper but didn't use it here as the space was designed for the tenants.
Raina

I Nominate Spoon Fork Bacon, Amazingly delicious recipes, beautiful photography and styling!! I am living on the Kale salad these days.
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