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Inside my dream house, which happens to be decrepit

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I finally got into my dream home on Tennessee in the Dogpatch, and here’s a photo tour. I would love to renovate this house; I literally vibrate with happiness when I walk past and imagine bringing it back to its original splendor. It could host some killer dinner parties.

Dream house facade

The facade. The entrance is overrun with geraniums.

Close up facade More facade Entrance

A simple but nice bit of stained glass in the entry way:

Stained glass in front hallway

The front rooms, with sliding doors, and an old coal fireplace:

Front room, sliding doors & fireplace Front rooms, main floor

Lovely mouldings around the light fittings throughout the house:

Moulding Front room light mouldingFlat's light moulding

The saddest paint in the world, in the master bedroom on the main floor. And its thin little master bathroom:

The saddest paint in the world Master bath

A large and old-fashioned kitchen, with beautiful tiles:

Everything, including the kitchen sink Lovely tile detail in main kitchen

Third floor landing, pink bedroom, another kitchen and a claw-footed bathtub in a second bathroom:

Stairs to third floor Third floor landingThird floor kitchen

Pink bathtub and flakey floorTop floor bedroom

The garden, with its rickety old stairs. There’s a plum tree and feral cats hidden amongst all that brush:

Rickety stairsView of garden stairs from second floor Garden

On the ground level, there was a flat with lots of mold and water damage:

Flat's living roomFlat's moldy bedroom

Downstairs flat kitchen Flat's bathroom

Large undeveloped space in the basement where you could expand the flat to two bedrooms, and the garage:

Large undeveloped space in basement Garage

Lots of work…