BEFORE: beautiful old craftsman foursquare home in dire need of a total makeover with no one to love it
AFTER: beautiful old craftsman foursquare home in dire need of a total makeover with only one overly ambitious, totally naive young couple to love it. (and we do!)
BEFORE: gorgeous stained glass window
AFTER: hideous leaded glass vinyl-framed window with what I'm fairly certain is a satanic symbol of some kind
BEFORE: really ugly wallpaper 
AFTER: much more tolerable robin's egg blue plaster
BEFORE: pretty much the ugliest wallpaper ever designed
AFTER: not so bad mauve-taupe plaster
BEFORE: an amazing feat of physics: an entirely wallpapered stairway- including the eight feet of vertical wall over the stairs. (though the most puzzling question is not how, but WHY? WHY?)
Insert a death-defying steaming session where man + steaming hot home improvement appliance + precariously perched step ladder miraculously does NOT = untimely death...
AFTER: Instead, it yields some of the world's most difficult-to-reach-with-a-paint-roller plaster, desperately in need of paint.
NEXT TIME ON 1926 Foursquare: something is lurking behind the pea-green wallpaper of the breakfast nook... stay tuned to find out what!
it's so pretty! i can't wait to get a house... i really wish i could now. it's the perfect time, if only i had money for a downpayment (& closing costs, etc etc).
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