Split, Infinitum: "Befores"

The Owners Just Before Us

2012 listing pix:

Exterior:

Basement:

Sublevel 1 / Family Room:

Sublevel 1 / Office:

Sublevel 1 / Half Bath: Not shown. You'd have had to seen it to know why it wasn't a selling point. We're living with it for at least the next few years....

First Floor / Kitchen:

First Floor / Living Room:

First Floor / Dining Room:

Second Floor / Master Bedroom:

Second Floor / Bedroom 2:

Second Floor / Bedroom 3:

Second Level / Full Bath: Not shown. You'd have had to seen it to know why it wasn't a selling point. We remodeled.

Two Owners Ago

2009 listing pictures. What I found most curious is that the couple we bought the house from appeared to do absolutely nothing to it during the three and a half years they owned it. It's as if they kept it as a time capsule to these owners.

Exterior:

We're far less patriotic than two owners ago: the eagle is gone and we don't have a flag out:

(but it gives me hope that we can actually get a green lawn this year...)

Basement:

Dollhouse?

(Although the curved sofa is some kind of 1980s awesome sauce I could have decorated around.)

First Floor/ Kitchen:

I also know why we inherited the ugly kitchen "island" at closing: the 2009 owners left it for the people from whom we bought. Check out the mustard-colored walls and valance that the people who owned just before us never changed.